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FC Barcelona showed a reaction after the Clasico bankruptcy: During the week, the Catalans ended their negative series in Turin, where they have never won, and deservedly beat the Italian record champions Juventus Turin 2-0 on matchday two of the Champions League .
The result, but especially the appearance, will give Barça and above all coach Ronald Koeman courage for the upcoming tasks. Now the guest appearance in Vitoria-Gasteiz is on Saturday evening (20:00 p.m.) in La Liga when it comes to Deportivo Alaves.
It comes as no surprise that Barça are a huge favorite, as demonstrated before Alaves vs. Barcelona also look at the odds of the betting providers. Of course, only one victory in northern Spain counts for Messi and Co. The two-game winless series with even two bankruptcies in a row is to be ended.
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Alaves:
After a difficult start to the season, Deportivo Alaves under new coach Pablo Machin has recently turned the corner a little and achieved two important victories, which certainly did the job security of the coach good. Four games, three defeats and a draw – that was the start of the season for the team from Vitoria-Gasteiz. It was already a bit restless in the Basque Country, but then an immensely important 1-0 home win against Athletic Bilbao succeeded in the Basque derby.
With the two wins in the last three games, the Machin team climbed out of the relegation zone to 15th place – so it’s time to take a break. But now the difficult game against FC Barcelona is about to begin, it is the first meeting of this season with a team that landed in the top 4 last year.
The memories of Barça, meanwhile, are anything but good – it wasn’t too long ago that the Catalans were received in the same place and received a bitter clap.
On the last match day of last season in mid-June, Barça Alaves shot 5-0 at the Estadio Mendizorrotza, and really got rid of the frustration of the missed championship.
Now Deportivo want to do better and exacerbate Barça’s La Liga crisis. A loss of points or even a defeat would be the next low blow for the proud Catalans.
Barcelona:
Two league bankruptcies in a row, you are not used to that from FC Barcelona. Even more astonishing is the look at the table in Spain’s elite class, where Barça only ranks twelfth. But that’s also because Blaugrana still have two games up their sleeves.
Nonetheless, the start of the season was of course not at all successful, two wins from five games are a disappointing result. The Clasico defeat against arch-rivals Real Madrid last weekend was all the more disappointing.
But the team of coach Ronald Koeman showed the right reaction, presented themselves well recovered in the difficult guest appearance in the Champions League at Juventus Turin and achieved a 2-0 victory – the first ever in the seventh attempt at Juventus.
Koeman called the performance at the Italian record champions the “most complete and best game” under his direction, and this performance must now be built on if the negative run in the league is finally to end at the weekend.
It is expected that Koeman will rotate and, for example, give Frenkie de Jong a break, who last played every game from the beginning. With Philippe Coutinho (thigh injury) out and Lionel Messi last shining on the ten, either Ousmane Dembélé – who scored a liberating goal against Juve – or newcomer Francisco Trincao could start on the right wing. At the front, Antoine Griezmann should once again get the chance to end his goal doldrums.
The clash with Alaves can come at just the right time for Griezmann and Co., after all, Barça won the last eight games against Alaves all – with a goal difference of 27: 3. This is another reason why Alaves vs. Barcelona are of course very close to the prognosis for an away win.
Alaves vs Barcelona head to head matches
19.07.20 LL Alaves Barcelona 0 : 5
21.12.19 LL Barcelona Alaves 4 : 1
23.04.19 LL Alaves Barcelona 0 : 2
18.08.18 LL Barcelona Alaves 3 : 0
28.01.18 LL Barcelona Alaves 2 : 1