Barcelona vs Alaves Match Stats Preview
Barcelona have not lost any of their last 11 matches against Alavés in LaLiga (W9 D2), their longest unbeaten run against the Vitoria side in the competition.
At home, Barcelona have only failed to score in one of their 17 matches against Alavés (W13 D2 L2), a 0-1 defeat in February 2000, a game in which current Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández played.
Barcelona lost their last home game in LaLiga, 1-2 to Real Madrid, having won each of the previous six, and have not lost back-to-back home games in the competition since April 2022 (L2).
Alavés won their last LaLiga match, 1-0 against Almería, after not winning any of their previous seven (D3 L4). They’ve not won two in a row in the top-flight since October 2021.
Alavés have scored 30% of their goals in LaLiga 2023/24 from outside the box (3/10), the joint highest percentage by a team in the competition this campaign along with Las Palmas (30% - 3/10).
Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski has now gone four straight games without scoring in LaLiga, his worst goal drought in a single league campaign since a run of five between September and October 2016 with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga.
Ilkay Gündogan has made three assists in 12 appearances for Barcelona in LaLiga 2023/24 and is just one away from equalling his best tally in a campaign in Europe's big five leagues: four with Borussia Dortmund in 2014/15 and four with Manchester City in 2021/22 and 2022/23.
Barcelona's Joao Félix has been involved in three goals in total in his last two games against Alavés in LaLiga (two goals and an assist), including a brace in his last one against the Vitorianos in the competition, with Atlético de Madrid in April 2022.
Alavés' Luis Rioja has scored in three of his last four games against Barcelona in LaLiga (three goals in total), including a goal in each of his last two visits to Spotify Camp Nou in the competition - he is one of just three players since 2020/21 to have scored twice away to Barcelona in LaLiga alongside Jude Bellingham and Santi Mina.
Having lost just one of his first three LaLiga matches against Barcelona (W1 D1), Alavés coach Luis García Plaza has lost each of his last five to the Blaugrana in the competition, conceding at least four goals in four of those five defeats.
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