📏 Form Guide

Alaves

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Alaves are hoping to win again following a 1-0 La Liga success over Real Sociedad.

In that game, Alaves had 37% possession and 10 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer for Alaves was Nahuel Tenaglia (65'). For their opponents, Real Sociedad got 6 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

Under three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Alaves have been involved. With regard to the goal distribution from that period, opposing sides scored a total of 6 and Alaves got themselves 5.

Atlético Madrid

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Atlético Madrid go into this meeting after a 3-0 La Liga win to beat Rayo Vallecano in their last fixture.

In that game, Atlético Madrid had 42% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Atlético Madrid, the scorers were Alexander Sørloth (3'), Conor Gallagher (45') and Julián Alvarez (77'). On the other side, Rayo Vallecano got 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Atlético Madrid have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 6 goals in total. At the back, Atlético Madrid seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. We will just have to see if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Atlético Madrid have not emerged victorious against Alaves in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 21/03/2021 shows us that Alaves have won 2 of these games & Atlético Madrid 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

A combined total of 15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 6 of them from Babazorros and 9 coming from Atleti. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was La Liga match day 14 on 23/11/2024 and the score finished Atlético Madrid 2-1 Alaves.

That time, Atlético Madrid managed 70% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 7 on target. The goalscorers were Antoine Griezmann (76') and Alexander Sørloth (86').

Alaves got 4 shots at goal with 1 on target. Jon Guridi (7') was the scorer.

The referee was Víctor García Verdura.

🗞️ Team News: Alaves

We are thinking that Babazorros could make use of the 4-2-3-1 system and select Antonio Sivera, Nahuel Tenaglia, Facundo Garces, Santiago Mourino, Manuel Sanchez, Ander Guevara, Antonio Blanco, Carlos Vicente, Jon Guridi, Carles Alena and Kike Garcia.

ℹ️ Team News: Atlético Madrid

We are inclined to think that Atleti might make use of a 4-4-2 lineup, starting Jan Oblak, Marcos Llorente, Robin Le Normand, Clement Lenglet, Javi Galan, Giuliano Simeone, Rodrigo De Paul, Pablo Barrios, Conor Gallagher, Antoine Griezmann and Julian Alvarez.

🧠 Prediction

We think that Alaves will need to put in a solid display to score goals against this Atlético Madrid team who we think will likely manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 victory for Atlético Madrid at the end of the 90.

Looking forward to this.

Lucas Pereira, 11:02 03/05/2025