{"id":223991,"date":"2026-01-18T22:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/real-sociedad-stuns-barcelona-in-incredible-fashion\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:44:23","slug":"real-sociedad-stuns-barcelona-in-incredible-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/real-sociedad-stuns-barcelona-in-incredible-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Sociedad stuns Barcelona in incredible fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"capital-letter\">B<\/span>arcelona&#8217;s 11-game winning streak ended Sunday with a 2-1 loss at Real Sociedad in the Spanish league.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had three goals disallowed &#8211; as well as a penalty-kick call reversed by video review &#8211; in the first half alone. It had five attempts hit the woodwork, including an 84th-minute header by Jules Kound from close range.<\/p>\n<p>The loss left the Catalan club one point ahead of second-place Real Madrid, which beat Levante 2-0 at home on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Oyarzabal put the hosts ahead with a volley by the far post in the 32nd minute. Barcelona equalized with a header from Marcus Rashford in the 70th but a minute later Gonalo Guedes put Sociedad ahead again with a shot from inside the area.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had plenty of chances throughout the match. It thought it had taken the lead a few minutes into the game when Fermn Lpez scored with a low shot from outside the area, but the goal was disallowed by video review for a foul by Dani Olmo on Sociedad&#8217;s Takefusa Kubo in the buildup.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona also had a goal by Frenkie de Jong called back for offside in the 21st and another by Lamine Yamal in the 27th.<\/p>\n<p>Yamal was awarded a penalty in first-half stoppage time but the call was reversed because he was offside.<\/p>\n<p>Sociedad&#8217;s Carlos Soler was sent off in the 88th.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had won 11 in a row across all competitions in a streak that included a 2-1 victory over Real Madrid in the final of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia last weekend. It hadn&#8217;t lost since a 3-0 road defeat against Chelsea in the league phase of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Its last Spanish league loss had been a 2-1 defeat against Real Madrid in the first clasico of the season at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in October.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second consecutive win for Sociedad, which moved to eighth place.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona forward Raphinha was not included in the squad for Sunday&#8217;s match. Joo Cancelo made his debut off the bench in the second half after recently signing with the Catalan club.<\/p>\n<p>Kubo had to be taken off the field on a stretcher in the second half because of an injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/football\/barcelona\/2026\/01\/18\/696d5ed9e2704e9c158b45a6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona&#8217;s 11-game winning streak ended Sunday with a 2-1 loss at Real Sociedad in the Spanish league. Barcelona had three goals disallowed &#8211; as well as a penalty-kick call reversed by video review &#8211; in the first half alone. It had five attempts hit the woodwork, including an 84th-minute header by Jules Kound from close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[547,971,964,29329,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-223991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-english","10":"tag-laliga-english","11":"tag-real-sociedad-english","12":"tag-soccer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}