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Real Madrid vs Alaves

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu

Date: 24th September 2024

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Real Madrid will look to make it five consecutive wins in all competitions when they welcome Alaves to the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday night.

The La Liga defending Champions are yet to click into top gear this season but they have continued to win games. Los Blancos recorded their fourth league win of the season last weekend when they beat Espanyol 4-1 at home.

That win preserved their unbeaten start to the season and kept them on the tails of their fierce rivals Barcelona who are already four points ahead thanks to their 100% record in La Liga this season. With a huge clash against their city rivals Atletico Madrid coming next, Carlo Ancelotti’s side knows they cannot afford to drop points here as that could significantly impact the title race before it even starts.

Nevertheless, Real Madrid has a good record coming into this game as this match takes place a year to the day since Real’s last league loss – a whopping 38 games ago (W28, D10). Even more impressive is that you would have to go back to April 2023 for Los Blancos’ last league defeat at the Santiago Bernabéu (W23, D4). Given that Madrid has 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.

Meanwhile, Alaves travel to Madrid in decent form. After beating Sevilla 2-1 at the weekend, Luis García’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.

Visiting fans could also be silently optimistic here as Alavés won this fixture as recently as November 2020. Yet, a poor away record should make them concerned as Alavés’ last ten La Liga away matches have produced just two victories (D2, L6), with five games in that sequence seeing them fail to score.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera Liga:

April 6, 2025
Villarreal 20:00 Athletic Bilbao
April 7, 2025
Leganes 20:00 Osasuna
April 11, 2025
Valencia 20:00 Sevilla
April 12, 2025
Real Sociedad 13:00 Mallorca
Getafe 15:15 Las Palmas
Celta Vigo 17:30 Espanyol
Leganes 20:00 Barcelona
April 13, 2025
Osasuna 13:00 Girona
Alaves 15:15 Real Madrid
Real Betis 17:30 Villarreal
Athletic Bilbao 20:00 Rayo Vallecano
April 14, 2025
Atlético de Madrid 20:00 Real Valladolid
April 18, 2025
Espanyol 20:00 Getafe
April 19, 2025
Rayo Vallecano 13:00 Valencia
Barcelona 15:15 Celta Vigo
Mallorca 17:30 Leganes
Las Palmas 20:00 Atlético de Madrid

Spanish Primera Liga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Barcelona 30 21 4 5 83 29 +54 67
2 Real Madrid 30 19 6 5 63 31 +32 63
3 Atlético de Madrid 30 17 9 4 49 24 +25 60
4 Athletic Bilbao 30 14 12 4 46 24 +22 54
5 Villarreal 29 13 9 7 51 39 +12 48
6 Real Betis 30 13 9 8 41 37 +4 48
7 Celta Vigo 30 12 7 11 44 43 +1 43
8 Real Sociedad 30 12 5 13 30 32 -2 41
9 Rayo Vallecano 30 10 10 10 33 35 -2 40
10 Mallorca 30 11 7 12 29 37 -8 40
11 Getafe 30 10 9 11 30 25 +5 39
12 Sevilla 30 9 9 12 34 41 -7 36
13 Girona 30 9 7 14 37 46 -9 34
14 Osasuna 29 7 13 9 33 42 -9 34
15 Valencia 30 8 10 12 34 47 -13 34
16 Espanyol 29 8 8 13 31 40 -9 32
17 Alaves 30 7 9 14 33 44 -11 30
18 Leganes 29 6 9 14 28 46 -18 27
19 Las Palmas 30 6 8 16 34 51 -17 26
20 Real Valladolid 30 4 4 22 19 69 -50 16

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