Brais Méndez’s 64th minute was the difference in a hard-fought contest as we fell to a 1-0 defeat at Real Sociedad.
Javier Aguirre gave Cyle Larin his first start of the season while Antonio Sánchez was moved into midfield.
Dani Rodríguez was troublesome from the offset as our midfielder first teed up an effort for Larin which was saved, before then seeing a header stopped.
We headed into the break with little to separate the two sides and chances few and far between.
Former star Take Kubo was introduced in the second half and came back to haunt us as he crossed for Méndez to score the only goal of the game.
Mikel Oyarzabal thought he had doubled the hosts’ lead minutes later, but VAR ruled the goal out for offside.
Substitute Amath had out best opportunity of the game when he danced past various defenders and got a shot away with two minutes left on the clock, but he was denied by a low block as we headed back to the island empty handed.
Line-ups
Real Sociedad: Remiro; Elustondo (Traoré min 60), Zubeldia (Le Normand min 71), Pacheco, Muñoz; Zubimendi, Merino, Brais Méndez, Zakharyan (Barrenetxea min 46); Fernández (Kubo min 60) y Oyarzabal (Sadiq min 84).
RCD Mallorca: Rajkovic; Gio González, Nastasic, Valjent, Copete (Morlanes min 70), Lato (Jaume Costa min 69); Samu Costa, Antonio Sánchez (Amath Ndiaye min 74), Dani Rodríguez (Javi Llabrés); Muriqui y Larin (Abdón Prats min 73).
Árbitro: Jorge Figueroa Vázquez (comité andaluz): Ha amonestado a Zubeldia (Min 47), Pacheco (min 71) Brais Méndez (Min 93) por parte de la Real Sociedad y a Copete (min 15), Lato (Min 40), Antonio Sánchez (Min 42), Javier Aguirre (min 95) por parte del RCD Mallorca.
