The team from San Sebastian has achieved a well-deserved victory by the minimum at the Energy Assets Arena against Livingston, a lower-category rival from the Scottish second division. The team has also recovered the sensations that they had not been able to find in their first two summer matches. Without playing a brilliant game, the Txuri-urdin have dominated their rival from the beginning, moved the ball with greater fluidity, and created enough goal opportunities to have won by a greater margin. Moyes has chosen to field a recognizable starting eleven, but giving opportunities to young promises who have stood out above the rest, such as Capilla, Oyarzabal, and especially the young midfielder Zubeldia, who has surprised Moyes this preseason and has played throughout the match to give him more minutes in action.

From the start of the match, Real Sociedad has created clear chances, until Zurutuza beat goalkeeper Jamieson by shooting close range after a cross from Canales, who then came close to scoring the second goal after a great through-pass from young midfielder Zubeldia. Rulli had little work to do in that first half of Real's absolute dominance. Moyes made six changes in the second half, but the dominance continued to be in favor of Real Sociedad. Jon Tena finally had his first minutes as goalkeeper for the Real's first team and dealt well with the few approaches from Livingston. As the minutes passed, Real felt the lack of freshness due to accumulated work and no longer reached the opponent's goal with as much clarity, but still generated clear chances to increase the lead. Ansotegi, from a corner kick, young Oyarzabal, again very incisive and daring, in a one-on-one situation, and Finnbogason, who has returned to the dynamics of Real while waiting for his loan to PAOK Salinica to be finalized, came close to scoring the second goal in the final minutes.