Real Sociedad vs FC Barcelona Live Score and Commentary, Copa Del Rey 2016-17

Real Sociedad 0-1 Barcelona

Updated: 20 January 2017 03:35 IST - Published: January, 19 2017 05:52 PM IST

FULL TIME: Sociedad 0-1 Barca! The curse of Anoeta is finally broken!!

89' Great Chance for Illaramendi!! Canales with a spot on free-kick but the former Reak Madrid man's header is over the bar!

86' Good spell of pressure for Barca as they win a corner after free-kick!

83' Barca definitely haven't been at their fluent best tonight! They are having to grind out this result! Can they hold on for just a little longer?

80' David Concha comes on for William Jose

79' MESSI TAKES IT! But his shot just rises over the bar and lands on the roof of the net!

79' Messi brought down in a very dangerous area by Martinez!!

77' GOMES IS THROUGH ON GOAL! But Navas gets back in time to concede a corner

73' Busquets wins a free kick to put a stop to the danger by his usual rolling on the ground tactic even though there was no contact on him whatsoever!

72' JUanmi comes on for Carlos Vela

68' Denis Suarez is coming on for Ivan Rakitic

63' Neymar gets booked for diving!

62' GREAT CHANCE FOR THE EQUALISER GOES BEGGING! A cross comes in from the left across the face of goal and it just goes past the far post with none of the runners into the box able to make contact!!

59' ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL CALL! The free-kick finally comes, Barca try to play the offside trap! But they did not see the run of the full back who wasn't offside. The linesman raises his flag anyway and that is a very poor call!

59' Should Messi have been sent off? Sociedad try to take a quick free-kick but Messi gets in the way and blocks it illegally. The crowd scream for a second yellow but the referee keeps his cards in his pocket

57' NEYMAR TRIES TO CURL ONE! Once again set up by a Leo Messi backheel allowing the Brazilan to open his body up and try to place that ball in the far corner. Did not get enough curl on it!

56' It turns out that handball decision was right as the ball just hits the midriff and not the arm!

53' Sociedad shout for handball against Lucas Digne in the box!! A volley from Prieto hits the defender form close range but nothing given

48' NEYMAR WASTES A GREAT CHANCE!! One long ball and the defence are al over the place, the Brazilian is through but he takes a poor touch and the keeper gathers. That should have been 2-0!!

48' Barca living on the edge trying to persist with their style of playing out from the back as Suarez fouled

47' Oyarzabal on the end of the first real chance of the second half as he fails to get anything on a great ball in from the long free-kick!

And the second half gets underway

It looks like Iniesta is the one who has made way. Is it a defensive change? An injury/ The reason is unknown

The second half is close to starting and it looks like Andre Gomes is coming on and it is unknown for whom

HALF TIME Sociedad 0-1 Barcelona

45' RAUL NAVAS GOES CLOSE WITH A HEADER! Sociedad take a long free kick and Navas makes a run into the box gets a powerful header that just drifts wide of Cilissen's far post!

43' And Messi gets a card for time wasting! Well that was strange! It's only the 43rd minute!

43' Messi fouled again after a run on the left and then asks for a card to be shown!

41' Busquets has had a few stray passes which has been slightly uncharacteristic of him. Sociedad have done well to neutralise him and Rakitic so far

36' Illaramendi takes a shot from long range after 10 minutes of midfield tussling which goes out for a corner But they can't take advantage of the poor marking in the box!

33' The crowd are getting really annoyed at some of the referring decision going Barcelona's way so far! But it's more frustration than anything

31' it's become very scrappy indeed as the game wears on. Barcelona defending really well so far and Sociedad are dominating most of the possession!

27' Sociedad enjoyed a good spell of pressure with a couple of corners and crosses but Barcelona deal with it after some unconventional defending it has to be said. But it stays 1-0 so far

24' OOOH! Messi is brought down while trying to get away from two Sociedad players and the ball is slammed into him! HE then gets up and gives the opposite player a slight shoulder barge!

23' Will Barca finally break the jinx this time?

23' The players let him take it and he does the stop-start penalty by stopping and then placing the ball in the opposite direction of the goalkeeper's dive!

22' Neymar takes it himself and scores!!! 1-0 to Barcelona!!

20' PENALTY TO BARCA!!! Neymar brought down!!

19' Barcelona slowly getting more control over their play.MSN combine for the every first time with Messi at the centre of it all. BUt Neymar's final ball was heavy

16' Neymar has had a very poor start to this game. he has lost possession and made the wrong choices more than once already from promising positions

14' Sociedad are giving Barca a very tough time indeed! The Catalans are unable to settle into a rhythm

11' Oyarzabal wastes a great chance! Umtiti with a misplaced pass and it lands directly to the attacker's feet but his shot was way wide of the mark!!

10' Barca's last win against today's opposition is when Rijkaard was in charge of the team. Even Pep Guardiola could not defeat this team

8' Neymar with a good opportunity who had space to shoot after Messi found him but he played it back to the Argentine when there were several players around him and the chance is wasted

7' Messi with a great idea to find Digne who had made a run into the box but the keeper reads it and gets there ahead of the fullback

5' Neymar drives it low it deflects and falls to Messi on th edge of the box, who sets up Suarez but his shot is blocked and the keeper plucks the ball from the sky

4' First corner of the game goes Barca's way!

4' So far Cilessen has been forced to pump the ball long instead of trying to find one of his defenders with a ground pass

2' Sociedad have started really brightly! Pressing Barcelona high and already putting their defence under immense pressure

1' And immediately William Jose goes down in the box under Pique's challenge and cries for a penalty. NO can do says the referee!

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