Alaves vs Mallorca - prediction, team news, lineups

Two teams battling to stay successful La Liga volition fastener horns for a relegation six-pointer connected Saturday afternoon, with Alaves welcoming Mallorca to Mendizorrotza Stadium.

Alaves are presently 18th successful the La Liga table, 1 constituent down 17th-placed Sevilla, portion Mallorca are 14th, 2 points supra their opponents successful this weekend's contest.

Match preview

Alaves tin surely instrumentality a batch of positives from their show away to Real Madrid connected Tuesday evening, lone losing 2-1 to Alvaro Arbeloa's side, but a 15th league decision of the run has near them successful the relegation portion heading towards the last straight.

The Blue and Whites really brought a four-game unbeaten tally into the clash astatine Bernabeu, including a 2-2 gully with Osasuna successful their past lucifer successful beforehand of their ain supporters.

Quique Sanchez Flores' broadside person a precise absorbing decorativeness to the play connected paper, with 3 of their past 4 games against Elche, Real Oviedo and Rayo Vallecano - 3 different teams battling towards the incorrect extremity of Spain's apical flight.

Alaves person picked up 21 points from their 15 location league matches this season, and they recorded a 1-0 triumph implicit Mallorca successful the reverse crippled during the 2024-25 campaign.

That said, Mallorca are looking to bash a La Liga treble implicit Alaves this season, having posted a 1-0 triumph erstwhile the brace locked horns for the reverse crippled backmost successful September 2025.

Mallorca are besides successful a bully spot successful presumption of their caller results, having won three, drawn 1 and mislaid 1 of their past 5 league games to determination up the part and into 14th.

Since losing 4 league games successful a enactment betwixt February 7 and February 28, Mallorca person picked up 11 points from six fixtures, but determination is inactive a batch of enactment to bash erstwhile it comes to avoiding relegation, arsenic Martin Demichelis' broadside are lone 2 points wide of the bottommost three.

The Pirates are 3 points disconnected 11th, meanwhile, truthful a batch could alteration successful a abbreviated abstraction of time, and their struggles this play person been astonishing considering that they person finished ninth and 10th successful 2 of their past 3 campaigns astatine this level.

Mallorca volition participate the lucifer disconnected the backmost of a 1-1 gully with Valencia astatine home, but they person struggled connected their travels this season, picking up conscionable six points from 15 matches, which is the second-worst grounds successful the part down Elche (four points).

The Palma outfit person had the amended of their erstwhile meetings with Alaves, starring the wide head-to-head grounds 21 wins to 11, portion determination person besides been 9 draws.

Alaves La Liga form:

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Mallorca La Liga form:

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Team News

Alaves request to marque a cheque connected Carlos Protesoni, who has a muscular problem, but the 28-year-old is the location side's lone wounded interest astatine this signifier of proceedings.

The squad volition beryllium boosted by the instrumentality of Abde Rebbach, who was suspended for the constrictive decision to Real Madrid past clip out, and the 27-year-old could commencement successful a wide area.

Lucas Boye and Toni Martinez person scored 20 times betwixt them successful the league during the 2025-26 campaign, and the brace are acceptable to proceed successful the last 3rd of the field.

As for Mallorca, a lengthy wounded database includes Jan Salas, Mateo Joseph, Antonio Raillo and Lucas Bergstrom, with each 4 decidedly retired of the contest.

The visitors besides person doubts implicit Zito Luvumbo and Marash Kumbulla, with the brace requiring precocious fittingness tests earlier their availability for the lucifer is determined.

Vedat Muriqi has had an outstanding season, scoring 21 times successful La Liga, and determination volition erstwhile again beryllium a commencement successful the last 3rd of the tract for the Kosovo international.

Alaves imaginable starting lineup:

Sivera; Tenaglia, Jonny, Parada; Perez, Blanco, Ibanez, Rebbach; Guridi; Martinez, Boye

Mallorca imaginable starting lineup:

Roman; Maffeo, Valjent, Mascarell, Mojica; Darder, Costa, Morlanes; Torre; Muriqi, Virgili

We say: Alaves 1-1 Mallorca

Both sides are successful coagulated form, and with Mallorca uncovering it hard connected their travels this season, we are expecting Alaves to beryllium bully capable to unafraid a stock of the spoils connected Saturday.

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