Eibar take on the visitors Alaves in the round 16 match of Spanish LaLiga2. The match will be played on Sunday, November 20th at Estadio Municipal de Ipurua (Eibar).
Eibar are trying to take into account the mistakes of last season, but not everything works out. "Gunsmiths", despite their modest financial capabilities, for a long time kept place in the LaLiga. Since their debut at this level in 2014, they have been constantly "buried", but still the team managed to show a result sufficient to maintain a "registration" (although Elche's financial problems helped at first). In the 2017/2018, they even managed to take 9th place, and only the season before last ended in a fall. The newcomer was seen as Segunda's favourite, but they only finished 3rd, embarrassingly 1 point behind both final leaders. And then there was a defeat in the first round of the playoffs, from Girona. It seemed that the 2nd attempt would be more successful. But so far there are too many misfires, and the nominal favorite only closes the top 5 of the division.
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Alaves have been a pleasant surprise so far this season. The Bean Eaters have been in La Liga for the previous 6 seasons in a row. But at the same time, they actually failed the last championship, leaving the elite division from the last, 20th place, with a weak result of 31 points for the entire draw. It is clear that the new mentor, Luis Garcia Plaza, was expected to return "on the move" (especially since he had already done something similar the season before last, heading Mallorca). But there were doubts whether the team would be combat-ready enough - many players left Vitoria in the summer, not wanting to play in the Segunda. At the moment, the renewed club is in the lead, having lost only 1 match out of 15. True, there are a lot of draws, 6, but they do not stop Alaves from occupying 1st place in the standings.
Alaves has a slight advantage in head-to-head confrontations. But in the 2020/2021 season, when both clubs played in La Liga, they exchanged victories on their fields. Alaves clearly intends to return to La Liga at the end of this season. Eibar is also good, but it seems that the guests will be able to at least not lose on Sunday.
Prediction for the match: Alaves to win with +0.5 handicap (X2).
