Alaves vs Real Madrid
Spanish La Liga.
Date: Saturday, 29th October, 2016
Kick-off: 15:15 UK.
Venue: Estadio Mendizorrotza ,Vitoria-Gasteiz
Real Madrid Team News & Preview
Real Madrid take on Alaves in La Liga this weekend and Los Blancos will be looking to extend their lead at the top of the table with another win here.
Zinedine Zidane’s side are in tremendous form right now and are heading into this game on the back of a 7-1 win over Leonesa during the midweek. They have also scored 20 goals in their last four matches and will look to punish Alaves.
Real Madrid are still coping with the absence of star players Casemiro, Luka Modric and Sergio Ramos. Dani Carvajal is suspended for this game as well.
Predicted Real Madrid Starting Lineup (4-3-3): Navas; Danilo, Varane, Pepe, Marcelo; Kroos, James, Kovacic; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo
Alaves Team News & Preview
Meanwhile, Alaves have had a decent start to their season by their standards.
The home side have picked up four points from their last two home league games and will look to shut Real Madrid down. However, in order to do that, they must improve their defensive performances. Alaves have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last five fixtures.
Victor Laguardia is sidelined for the hosts due to injury and Ibai Gomez is a major doubt at this moment. Marcos Llorente is also unavailable due to the terms of his loan deal.
Predicted Alaves Starting Lineup (3-5-2): Pacheco; Alexis, Feddal, Garcia; Femenia, Torres, Camarasa, Krsticic, Hernandez; Mendez, Deyverson
Key Facts
Alaves has failed to win in their last 3 league games, and have won of their first 4 games played at home so far. The glorious one has one win in their first 5 games at home, but remains unbeaten in those 4 home.
Real Madrid remains unbeaten this season, and has gone unbeaten in 24 straight competitive games. The Blancos is one of the 2 side that remains unbeaten after 9 games played so far this season.
Real Madrid won 3 of the away league games, netting 10 in their last 10 away clashes.
Alaves vs Real Madrid: Head-To-Head-Stats
Both sides will be meeting for the first since 2005/2006 La Liga season. The Blancos enjoyed a 6-0 aggregate triumph over the Glorious One in the two league meetings of the season.
Moreover, Alaves is in search of her first win over the Blancos since her 1-0 at the Bernabeu during the 1999/2000 La Liga season. However, in the last 10 meetings between this two sides Real Madrid has 8 wins compared to Alaves 1. The Glorious have also failed to defeat the Blancos in their last 5 home games.
Alaves vs Real Madrid: Prediction
Sequel to their 4 consecutive games draw, Real Madrid has scored 20 goals in their last 4 competitive games, conceding 4 times in those 4 clashes. The Blancos will be going into this clash with a hyper scoring mentality, which will definitely be a thing of concern to an Alaves side that have conceded 6 goals and scored 5 in same number games.
Therefore, I predict an over 2 goals margin win for Real Madrid.
Alaves vs Real Madrid: Betting Tips
Real Madrid to win with handicap +2 goals at 2.40.
