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Alaves vs Leganes Prediction & Betting tips
In the Mendizorroza in Vitoria, Alaves and Leganes will kick off the seventeenth round in La Liga on Friday evening. It promises to be an exciting game, as both teams are each other’s direct competitors in the fight against relegation.
Alaves:
With nineteen points from sixteen games and a provisional fifteenth place, Alaves seems to be busy with a colorless season, but nothing could be further from the truth. In particular, the brand new attackers Lucas Perez and Joselu, who were brought to Mendizorroza for a total amount of just five million euros last summer, make a big impression with thirteen goals. Only the FC Barcelona attack duo (Messi and Suarez: twenty goals) were even more accurate this season.
Last weekend, Alaves was not involved with a 3-0 defeat at Granada. “In the second half in particular, we fell completely through the ice,” coach Asier Garitano grumbled. For the home crowd, the Basques generally do a lot better with four wins and only two losses in eight home games, but El Glorioso has to miss several strong players on Friday night. Tomas Pina is in the rag basket, while Victor Laguardia and Mubarak Wakaso are both suspended. Central to midfield in particular, the home team is severely damaged, although according to attack leader Perez this should not be an excuse: “Our selection is wide enough to compensate for their lack.”
Leganes:
With a penultimate place and a backlog of no less than seven points in the safe seventeenth place, the situation of Leganes cannot be called rosy. The recent appointment of Mexican coach Javier Aguirre, however, has clearly done the Madrid people good. There is fighting again for every ball, and last weekend Los Pepineros booked their second win of the season at the expense of Celta de Vigo: 3-2. “I am very proud of my players,” says Aguirre. “We are alive again, that’s the main thing.”
So Leganes knows what it feels like to step out of the field as the winner, with playmaker Oscar Rodriguez as the main player. On Friday evening, the blues and whites with midfielder Recio and defender Dimitrios Siovas have to miss two important players. In addition, with only two points from seven away games, they couldn’t win a single duel.
Alaves vs Leganes head to head matches
07.04.19 LL Alaves Leganes 1 : 1
23.11.18 LL Leganes Alaves 1 : 0
25.07.18 CF Alaves Leganes 1 : 1
21.01.18 LL Alaves Leganes 2 : 2
18.08.17 LL Leganes Alaves 1 : 0