Barcelona vs Alaves LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Barcelona have avoided defeat in their last eight LaLiga games against Alavés (W7 D1), scoring 3.1 goals per game in this period, since a 1-2 defeat at home in September 2016 in Sergio Busquets’ 250th appearance in the competition.
At home, Barcelona have won 12 of their 15 LaLiga games against Alavés (D1 L2) and they have failed to score in just one, a 0-1 defeat in February 2000, the only time they have met in MD 23.
Alavés have conceded 6+ goals in four different LaLiga games against Barcelona, more than against any other opponent: 0-6 in January 1932, 1-7 in January 1999, 1-6 in October 2002 and 0-6 in February 2017.
Barcelona have failed to score in just one of their last 56 LaLiga games at Camp Nou (W44 D9 L3), 0-0 vs Real Madrid in December 2019.
After their win against Real Valladolid in their last game (1-0), Alavés ended a six game winless run in LaLiga (D2 L4) they last won two in a row in the competition in November 2019 (2).
Barcelona have had a league-high 144 shots on target this season, while only Elche (43) have made less shots on target in the competition this season than Alavés (55).
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has scored 10 goals against Alavés in LaLiga, scoring in seven of his 10 appearances against them in the competition. He scored at least one goal in each of his last three games against the Basque side at Camp Nou (four goals on aggregate).
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has provided just two assists in LaLiga in 2020/21, but he has an Expected Assist value (xA) of 6.56, the biggest different between assists and xA in LaLiga this season (4.56).
Alavés’ Joselu has scored three goals on aggregate in his last five LaLiga appearances, as many as in his previous 22 games in the competition.
Alavés’ Abelardo Fernández has managed seven LaLiga games against Barcelona, failing to win in all of them (D1 L6), more games without victory than against any other opponent in the competition.
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