BARCELONA: Real Sociedad's miserable restart to the season in Spain showed it was not done meting out pain on Thursday when they lost 2-0 away to Alaves.
The revelation team of the 2019-20 team were in the fourth Champions League spot when football stopped back in March.
But they now have one point from six and are replaced by Atletico Madrid in fourth place.
Borja Sainz got the first on 59 minutes and Martin Aguirregabiria added a second deep into injury time.
The result leaves Alaves 10 points clear of the bottom three. “We are a step closer to our objective,” said Sainz. “We are going to do our best to finish the job.”
Real Sociedad’s Igor Zubeldia lamented: “We were not at our best and it was the same in the last game. Now we have another opportunity this coming Sunday.
“We had plenty of the ball, but we didn’t really test them and if you don’t hurt teams with the possession you can’t win games.”
“Now, we have another opportunity this coming Sunday.” – dpa
