Alaves vs Elche LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be the first Laliga game between Alaves and Elche. The Basque team have only won one of their last five games in all competitions against Elche (D1 L3).
At home, Alaves have only lost one of their last 10 games against Eiche in all competitions, all of them in Liga Smartbank (W4 D5), 0-3 in November 2008.
Alaves have won their last game in Laliga, 1-0 against Athletic, they have not won back to back games in the competition since November 2019 (vs Real Valladolid and Eibar).
Elche won their only away game in Laliga this season, 1-0 against Eibar, and they are looking to win back to back away games in the competition since October 2013 (vs Celta de Vigo and Real Betis).
Elche have won their last three Laliga trips to Basque Country, the last two keeping a clean sheet, having been winless in their previous 36 in the top-flight (W8 L28).
Elche have attempted just 12 shots and four on target in Laliga this season, fewer than any other team. Alaves' Lucas Perez has failed to score in his last 13 Laliga appearances after scoring in 11 of his previous 19 in the competition (11 goals). Only Real Sociedad (54) have conceded more fouls at home than Alaves this season in Laliga (52, alongside Real Valladolid) and three of the five players to concede the most fouls at home this season are Alaves players (Ruben Duarte, eight, and Edgar Mendez and Tomas Pina, seven).
Rodrigo Ely has scored three Laliga goals in 2020, more than any other Alaves defender in a calendar year in the competition since Geli in 2002 (also three).
Alaves' Pablo Machfn has won three of his four home games against Eiche in all competitions in his managerial career, all in Laliga Smartbank, losing the other, 0-1 in December 2015 in charge of Girona.
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