📊 Form Guide

Alaves

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Alaves will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 1-0 La Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Athletic Bilbao.

In that match, Alaves managed 40% possession and 3 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player to score for Alaves was Manu Sánchez (71' Own goal). At the other end, Athletic Bilbao had 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

Alaves have really been misfiring of late. Their goals record equals just 3 vs opposing sides over their previous six matches. In those meetings, Alaves have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 4.

Looking at their past form shows that Alaves:

• haven't lost in the league to Valencia in their previous 4 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

Valencia

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Valencia will come into the game following on from a 3-0 La Liga win to defeat Getafe in their last outing.

In that match, Valencia managed 59% possession and 10 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Valencia, the scorers were Pepelu (8'), Diego López (18') and Hugo Duro (37'). Getafe had 10 shots at goal with 3 on target.

In their last 6 clashes, Valencia have bagged a total of 11 goals. Valencia have also managed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have seen 5 goals go into their own net. Regardless, we will just have to wait and see if that trend will continue on in this next match or not.

Leading up to this clash, Valencia:

• have not won against Alaves when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• are unbeaten in their last 6 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 24/04/2021 tells us that Alaves have won 3 of them & Valencia 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

An aggregate of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 of them from Babazorros and 7 created by Los Che. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league match between the two was La Liga match day 18 on 22/12/2024 and the score finished Valencia 2-2 Alaves.

On that occasion, Valencia managed 62% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The goalscorers were Luis Rioja (70') and Dani Gómez (98').

Alaves had 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Carlos Martín (7') and Joan Jordán (88') scored.

The referee was Javier Alberola Rojas.

📋 Team News: Valencia

Thanks to a mainly available squad, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Valencia boss Carlos Corberán to contend with. Thierry Correia (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game.

💭 Prediction

We envisage that Valencia are certainly able to put a goal past this Alaves outfit, but it possibly won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re expecting a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Alaves at the end of this one.

Lucas Pereira, 16:04 14/05/2025