📏 Form Guide

Alaves

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Alaves enter this fixture following a 2-2 La Liga drawn match vs UD Las Palmas.

In that game, Alaves had 39% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Alaves, the goals were scored by Toni Martínez (7') and Jon Guridi (63'). Las Palmas had 14 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Fábio Silva (90') and Alberto Moleiro (95') scored for UD Las Palmas.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Alaves haven’t conceded. The reality is that Alaves have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals along the way.

Rayo Vallecano

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In their last game, Rayo Vallecano drew 2-2 in the La Liga match with Real Sociedad.

In that game, Rayo Vallecano managed 55% possession and 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Rayo Vallecano, the scorers were Óscar Trejo (58') and Pedro Díaz (72'). For their opponents, Real Sociedad got 8 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Zubimendi (20') and Arkaitz Mariezkurrena (80') scored for Real Sociedad.

The stats tell the story, and Rayo Vallecano have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 7 goals in all. At the back, Rayo Vallecano have clearly had some problems. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Their past results show that Rayo Vallecano:

• have left without a victory over Alaves when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 28/01/2019 tells us that Alaves have won 2 of these and Rayo Vallecano 4, with the tally of draws being 0.

A sum of 8 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 2 of them for Babazorros and 6 netted by Franjirrojos. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.33.

The last league clash between these sides was La Liga match day 11 on 26/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Rayo Vallecano 1-0 Alaves.

On that day, Rayo Vallecano managed 51% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

Alaves got 15 shots at goal with 7 on target. Antonio Sivera (80' Own goal) was the scorer.

The referee was Adrián Cordero Vega.

🗞️ Team News: Alaves

We are thinking that Babazorros look set to use a 4-4-2 formation in the match and select Antonio Sivera, Nahuel Tenaglia, Abdelkabir Abqar, Santiago Mourino, Manuel Sanchez, Carlos Vicente, Joan Jordan, Antonio Blanco, Carles Alena, Kike Garcia and Carlos Martin.

📋 Team News: Rayo Vallecano

We’re of the thinking that Franjirrojos might elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Augusto Batalla, Andrei Ratiu, Pathe Ciss, Aridane Hernandez, Pep Chavarria, Pedro Diaz, Oscar Valentin, Jorge de Frutos, Unai Lopez, Alvaro Garcia and Randy Nteka.

⚡ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Rayo Vallecano will do well to get anything against this Alaves side who will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We’re therefore tipping a narrow 1-0 advantage for Alaves when all is said and done.

We’ll see what happens.

Peter Guest, 17:01 29/03/2025