Real Madrid vs Alaves prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2024-09-23 19:00.
[p]Real Madrid may not have been at their fluent best so far this season, but an eight-game unbeaten start to the campaign is a sign of their immense strength (W6, D2). Los Blancos came from behind on Saturday to beat Espanyol 4-1, with boss Carlo Ancelotti pleased that his side “played better” than in recent performances. The Italian will need that trend to continue too, as this clash with Alavés comes days before the latest instalment of the Madrid derby.[/p]
[p]This match also takes place a year to the day since Real’s last league loss – which coincidentally came against AtlĂ©tico – a whopping 38 games ago (W28, D10). You’d have to go back to April 2023 for Los Blancos’ last league defeat at the Santiago BernabĂ©u (W23, D4), and as Madrid have won five consecutive H2Hs, the last three of which were accompanied by a clean sheet, there appears to be little chance of an upset here.[/p]
[p]AlavĂ©s won this fixture as recently as November 2020 however, and a very positive start to the season may have instilled some quiet confidence among the travelling fanbase. After beating Sevilla 2-1 at the weekend, Luis GarcĂa’s men moved onto ten points from their opening six matches (W3, D1, L2) – their most at this stage of a top-flight campaign since 2018/19.[/p]
[p]They finished comfortably in mid-table that season, just as they did last term, but if AlavĂ©s are to continue to establish themselves in mid-table then improving on the road is the next step. Their last ten La Liga away matches have produced just two victories (D2, L6), with five games in that sequence seeing them fail to score – hardly a good omen ahead of a trip to Real Madrid where they’ve conceded eight without response on their last two visits.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham directly contributed to three of his side’s five goals in a thumping H2H win in May (G1, A2).  His goal came inside the opening ten minutes that day, but ten of his last 14 arrived after the break. Alaves’ Nahuel Tenaglia has had a hand in goals in back-to-back matches (G1, A1) – four of his five strikes for the club came in away matches.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Real Madrid have scored before half-time in just one of their eight matches this season.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Ryan Fisher[/i][/p]