Alaves vs Barcelona - prediction, team news, lineups

Fresh from being confirmed arsenic La Liga winners for the 2025-26 campaign, Barcelona volition proceed their home run distant to relegation-threatened Alaves connected Wednesday night.

Hansi Flick's broadside secured the rubric with a 2-0 triumph implicit Real Madrid successful El Clasico connected Sunday, and they volition present tackle an Alaves outfit that beryllium 18th successful the La Liga table.

Match preview

Alaves person lone really mislaid 2 of their past 8 La Liga matches, but they person won conscionable doubly during that period, and the Basque outfit are firmly progressive successful the relegation conflict successful Spain's apical formation heading towards the last straight.

El Glorioso volition participate this crippled disconnected the backmost of a 1-1 gully with Elche, and they beryllium 18th successful the La Liga table, 1 constituent down 17th-placed Girona, who look Rayo Vallecano connected Monday night.

Quique Sanchez Flores' broadside volition instrumentality connected Real Oviedo and Rayo Vallecano successful their last 2 league matches of the season, and wins successful some of those games are not beyond them, but a decision against Barcelona successful this contention would permission them highly vulnerable.

Alaves person picked up 24 points from their 17 location league matches this season, which is lone the 14th-best grounds successful the division, and they volition beryllium hosting a Barcelona broadside that person the champion distant grounds successful La Liga this term, securing 37 points from 17 games.

Earlier this season, Barcelona recorded a 3-1 triumph implicit Alaves, and the Catalan broadside are presently connected a six-game winning tally against El Glorioso, including a 3-0 occurrence successful the corresponding crippled during the 2024-25 season.

Barcelona volition beryllium connected a precocious heading into this match, having secured the La Liga rubric connected Sunday evening with a 2-0 occurrence implicit bitter rivals Real Madrid; Flick's broadside are incredibly 14 points up of second-placed Los Blancos with 3 games left.

The Catalan outfit person been victorious successful each of their past 11 matches successful Spain's apical flight, portion they person won their past six successful each competitions, but their elimination successful the quarter-finals of the Champions League to Atletico Madrid volition inactive beryllium connected their minds.

Planning is already underway for adjacent season, with antiaircraft reinforcements needed successful bid to marque a superior play for the European Cup successful 2026-27, but they volition beryllium aiming to decorativeness their home run with 3 much wins implicit Alaves, Real Betis and Valencia.

Barcelona comfortably pb the head-to-head grounds against Alaves, with the Catalan outfit winning 36 of their erstwhile 50 matches, suffering lone 7 defeats successful the process.

In La Liga, the 2 teams person met connected 39 occasions, with Barcelona winning 27 of those encounters, portion Alaves person not managed to flooded the Catalan squad connected location ungraded since December 2001 - demonstrating the size of El Glorioso's task connected Wednesday night.

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Team News

Alaves volition again beryllium missing Lucas Boye (muscle) and Facundo Garces (suspended) connected Wednesday night, portion the hosts request to marque checks connected some Toni Martinez and Jon Guridi aft the brace were forced disconnected successful the 1-1 gully with Elche.

Martinez has scored 7 times successful his past 7 La Liga appearances, and Alaves are hopeful that the striker volition beryllium cleared to diagnostic against the champions.

Carles Alena is besides disposable again pursuing a suspension and should look his erstwhile club, portion different ex-Barcelona subordinate Denis Suarez could beryllium introduced into the XI.

As for Barcelona, Lamine Yamal remains unavailable for enactment owed to a hamstring injury, portion Raphinha, who is lone conscionable backmost from a muscular occupation of his own, volition miss retired present owed to the milestone yellowish paper that helium picked up against Real Madrid.

Andreas Christensen is backmost successful grooming pursuing a superior genu injury, and determination is anticipation that the Denmark planetary could diagnostic earlier the extremity of the campaign.

Barcelona brag Flick is expected to ringing the changes from El Clasico, with Jules Kounde, Alejandro Balde, Ronald Araujo and Frenkie de Jong perchance each being introduced, successful summation to Robert Lewandowski, who has seven goals successful his erstwhile 5 appearances against Alaves.

Alaves imaginable starting lineup:

Sivera; Perez, Otto, Tenaglia, Parada, Rebbach; Suarez, Blanco, Alena; Martinez, Diabate

Barcelona imaginable starting lineup:

J Garcia; Kounde, E Garcia, Araujo, Balde; De Jong, Pedri; Rashford, Gavi, Fermin; Lewandowski

We say: Alaves 1-3 Barcelona

Alaves desperately request a affirmative effect to boost their endurance hopes, but Barcelona are simply flying astatine the moment, and we are expecting the champions to enactment different triumph connected the board.

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