Building momentum

Real Sociedad kicked off their tour of Japan with a match against V-Varen Nagasaki that ended in a 1–0 win for the home side. The game — the first of two friendlies the Basque team will play in Japan — was decided by a late goal.

On Friday, La Real will play the second and final match of the tour, visiting Yokohama FC. Kick-off is at midday (Gipuzkoa time) and the match will be broadcast live on Real Sociedad TV.

Match details:

V-Varen Nagasaki: Tomizawa (Ioka, min.73), Iio, Okano (Teruyama, min.62), Takahata (Kasayanagi, min.62), Tadokoro (Nanamure, min.92), Egawa (Sekiguchi, min.46), Guilherme (Emerson, min.73), Matheus Jesus, Kato (Matsumoto, min.62), Yamada (Nakamura, min.73) and Delgado (Edigar, min.62).

Real Sociedad: Marrero (Fraga, min.46), Traoré (Odriozola, min.46), Martín (Aritz, min.46), Zubeldia (Pacheco, min.46), Aihen (Javi López, min.46), Gorrotxa (Turrientes, min.46), Marín (González de Zárate, min.46), Sergio Gómez (Goti, min.46), Brais Méndez (Barrene, min.46), Becker (Take, min.46)(Mariezkurrena, min.72) and Carlos Fernández (Karrikaburu, min.46).

Goals: 1-0: Kasayanagi, min.79.

Referee: Koichiro Fukushima.