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Alaves vs Eibar Prediction & Betting tips
We start the 23rd round of LaLiga in the Mendizorroza, where the Basque regional derby between Alaves and Eibar is scheduled on Friday evening. Both teams are above the relegation line, but they are still not safe!
Alaves:
One thing is certain: this season, the figurative beauty prize will also miss Alaves’ nose. However, the Basques have a crush on it, because everything is about survival. Last weekend the blues and whites had only 26 percent possession of the ball at a visit to Seville, but thanks to a goal from Joselu the team managed to escape from the Pizjuan with a 1-1 draw. However, the lead over the Spanish relegation zone is still only a meager six points, so a win over Eibar would be more than welcome.
So Alaves has to roll up his sleeves and fight for ninety minutes, but is very hard to beat in his own Mendizorroza with four wins and four draws. Trainer Asier Garitano does a great job. This week it was announced that if he manages to keep Alaves for LaLiga, his expiring contract with El Glorioso will automatically be extended by one season. So that is a nice extra motivation to keep grabbing points.
Eibar:
Eibar is also heading for a long and tough second half of the season, because, just like Alaves, the red-blue are on 24 points after 22 rounds of play. Only at forty points can you as a Spanish club feel as good as safe, so there is still plenty of work to be done for trainer Jose Luis Mendilibar.
Mendilibar can in any case be satisfied with the shape of the last weeks. Eibar had a dramatic competition start, but only had to give in once in its last six LaLiga duels. The defense, in particular, has been in good shape in recent weeks, and the Serbian closing post Marko Dmitrovic is quickly making its name on the Spanish fields. However, that does not mean that Los Armeros is still one of the worst away teams of the Spanish royal class. The red-blue this season managed to win only one of their eleven league matches on foreign soil, and also in the last fifteen away games of last season, the Basques stepped out of the field only once. You could almost say that Eibar needs a motivator / positivity guru / quack like Emile Ratelband or John Troost to get rid of this persistent syndrome.
Alaves vs Eibar head to head matches
24.11.19 LL Eibar Alaves 0 : 2
09.03.19 LL Alaves Eibar 1 : 1
04.11.18 LL Eibar Alaves 2 : 1
15.04.18 LL Eibar Alaves 0 : 1
25.11.17 LL Alaves Eibar 1 : 2