Alaves vs Betis prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2023-10-07 16:30.
Alavés were the worst-performing La Liga (LL) club of the previous four rounds, sustaining three 2-0 defeats, albeit against clubs to have finished in the top half of the standings after eight rounds. It has them on the brink of slipping into the relegation zone, and things aren’t set to get any easier with Real Betis, another in-form top-half opposition, visiting this weekend.
The frustrations are evidently building for manager Luis GarcĂa Plaza, who complained after a 2-0 loss at home to Osasuna about refereeing in the competition, as well as his own team’s inability to convert their effort into results. Along with fellow newly promoted club Las Palmas, AlavĂ©s have been held scoreless in a joint-high five of their first eight LL matches courtesy of what was the league’s worst shooting accuracy (26%) heading into the round.
They seemingly meet Real Betis at perhaps the most inopportune moment, with the visitors coming into this match after recording back-to-back competitive wins for the first time this season. They’re now unbeaten in four games across all tournaments (W2, D2) after a 2-1 Europa League win at home to Sparta Prague, and having conceded more than once only to Barcelona (L 5-0) across their last seven competitive appearances, aren’t likely to offer their starved hosts many easy goal scoring opportunities.
In addition to being undefeated as a favourite in all competitions this season (W3, D2), Betis’ only two defeats of this LL campaign came on the road to clubs higher than them in the standings (4-2 Athletic and 5-0 Barcelona). Manager Manuel Pellegrini should therefore be confident the players can replicate his debut as Betis boss, which was coincidently an away win (1-0) against Alavés in September 2020!
Players to watch: New AlavĂ©s forward Kike GarcĂa will be desperate to correct a poor personal record against Betis, in which he has scored in just one of his last 12 H2Hs (W4, D3, L5) for any club. Betis recruit Isco was praised by his boss after adding to an assist against Valencia last weekend with the midweek match winner against Sparta Prague.
Hot stat: If including La Liga 2 playoff games, all but three of Alavés last 26 league games (any division) produced less than 2.5 total goals.