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The standard Barcelona set across the first seven Liga F and Champions League matches — 14 goals in their last three fixtures against Roma and Real Madrid included — made the 1-2 away loss to Real Sociedad at Instalaciones de Zubieta three days ago a genuine jolt. Patri Guijarro scored inside the first minute, yet Cecilia Marcos and Ainhoa Marín of Real Sociedad both found the net before half-time, and Barcelona could not recover. This paper called a clean sheet and a win on 18 October; it got neither. The defeat leaves Pere Romeu's side on 18 points from seven games — still two points above Real Madrid — but the question it raises is a simple one: what happens to this team's structure when the early goal does not become a platform? Saturday at Estadi Johan Cruyff against a Granada side sitting on 10 points from seven games will provide the clearest possible answer.
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Clàudia Pina has scored 11 goals across Liga F and the UEFA Women's Champions League this season, and the standard Barcelona set across their last three fixtures — 15 goals scored, none conceded — is the measure Real Sociedad face when they host Pere Romeu's side at Instalaciones de Zubieta on Sunday. The Playbook predicts Barcelona win and keep a clean sheet. Real Sociedad sit 15th with five points from six Liga F matches, a goal difference of minus four, and 13 points below Barcelona in the table; their previous meeting on this ground, in November 2025, produced a 1-0 result for Sociedad, the lone exception in a head-to-head series that Barcelona have otherwise dominated by wide margins. Caroline Graham Hansen has contributed seven goals and nine assists in eight appearances this season; Ewa Pajor carries five goals and nine assists. Whether that attacking output sustains against a side defending at home — rather than sitting back after conceding early — is the concrete question Sunday answers.
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Clàudia Pina scored four times inside the first 45 minutes as Barcelona put seven past Real Madrid at Spotify Camp Nou, and the standard that result sets is the relevant starting point for what comes next. Pere Romeu's side travel to Instalaciones de Zubieta on Sunday to face a Real Sociedad team sitting 15th in Liga F with five points from six games and a goal difference of minus four. The previous meeting at that ground ended in a 0-1 loss for Barcelona, the lone blemish in a head-to-head record that otherwise reads overwhelmingly in their favour. What Sunday will actually test is whether the front line — Pina on 11 goals and 4 assists across Liga F and the Champions League, Graham Hansen on 7 and 9 — can maintain that output against a lower-block side with nothing to lose and everything to prove in front of their own supporters.
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Six games into the Liga F season, Pere Romeu's side have not conceded a single goal. That is the standard the evidence keeps confirming: 15 goals scored, zero allowed across the last three results, a sequence that runs from the 2-0 away win over Dux Logroño at Las Gaunas through the 6-0 away win over Roma in the Champions League league phase to the 7-0 home win over Real Madrid at Spotify Camp Nou. The mechanism is consistent — Clàudia Pina's 11 goals and Caroline Graham Hansen's seven goals and nine assists across Liga F and the Champions League represent a front line generating chances at a rate that leaves opponents without a foothold in either phase of the game.
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