Alaves vs Valladolid
Friday April 19, 2019 begins the thirty-third round of La Liga with the game between Alaves vs Valladolid. The meeting is scheduled on Estadio de Mendizorroza. Both teams need points to achieve their goals, but they are not in the late stages.
Alaves: He can still get a seat in the Europa League
Despite the rather weak track record of the last period, Alaves still retains a chance to qualify in the Europa League. Because in the final of Copei del Rey are Valencia and Barcelona, bands ranked among the top six in the standings, the 8th place becomes eligible for the European competition. Alaves even touched the Champions League, but the return of La Liga was a very weak one. Now the difference to the 4th place is 7 points. It is worth mentioning that the defensive organization, one of the strengths of the first part, is more permissive during this season. In the last 4 games he has received 9 goals and in order to find a match in which he has not received the goal we have to go to the game with Celta from 23 February. Since then, there have been 7 games and has scored at least one goal in each of them. Jonathan Calleri scored 8 goals scored for Alaves this season. It is a team that scores quite hard and rarely succeeds to overcome a goal scored in the match. In the last 6 games only Huesca scored more than one goal (3).
- Alaves (4-4-2): Pacheco – Ximo Navarro, Rodrigo Ely, Maripan, Martin Aguirregabiria – Takashi Inui, Wakaso, Pina, Jony – Calleri, Borja Baston
- Coach: Abelardo
- Injury: Burgui
- Suspend: Laguardia, Ruben Duarte
Valladolid: The threat of relegation has become increasingly prominent
Valladolid dropped to 18th, relegated to Getafe (2-2) after the last round. He drove to the final stage of the match, when he was matched after Molina’s 11-meter kick. It was a game that relied heavily on VAR, most of the important decisions being made after watching the video rerun. Sergio Gonzalez was the lucid player at the end of the match. “What we have to do to save ourselves is to repeat the game today. We must lift our heads and move on. ” Anuar Tuhami is injured in the game with Getafe and will be missing between 8 and 10 weeks, which means he will not play this season. Moroccan has become an important player in the middle of the field and will be an important absence. Let’s not forget that Ruben Alcaraz is also missing from the center area due to the cumulus of yellow cards. Michel and Borja remain Abelardo’s options in this area. Even if he scored twice with Getafe, he remains the team with the fewest goals scored in La Liga, 26 in 32 matches. The lack of a valuable striker is the cause of the current situation in the ranking. The top scorer of the team is the Turkish Enes Unal, who scored 4 times throughout the season.
- Valladolid (4-4-2): Yoel – Moyano, Kiko Olivas, Calero, Nacho – Keko, Borja Fernandez, Michel, Oscar Plano – Enes Unal, Sergi Guardiola
- Coach: Sergio
- Injuries: Luismi, Hervias, Cop, Stiven Plaza, Anuar
- Suspended: Alcaraz
Alaves vs Valladolid Picks
Both teams need points, Alaves wanting to qualify in the Europa League, and Valladolid is trying to save himself from relegation. It will be an upset meeting, only the two have big problems in the offensive, managed to score quite hard. Alaves scored 2 times only in 5 of the 15 home games. Valladolid scored in only half of the 16 meetings that were held away. The most likely prediction is one on the number of goals, under 2.5.
Our Prediction: Under 2.5
Odds: 1.53
