Real Madrid vs Alaves - prediction, team news, lineups

Real Madrid volition effort to bounce backmost from their Champions League quarter-final exit erstwhile they instrumentality connected Alaves astatine the Santiago Bernabeu successful Tuesday's La Liga encounter. 

Los Blancos are nine points adrift of La Liga leaders Barcelona, portion the visitors are hovering conscionable supra the bottommost three. 

Match preview

Real Madrid caput into the midweek fixture connected the backmost of a four-game winless tally that leaves them connected the verge of finishing the play without immoderate silverware.

That mediocre tally of results includes a 2-1 decision to Mallorca and a 1-1 gully with Girona successful La Liga, leaving them 9 points distant from Barcelona with 7 games near to play, including El Clasico connected May 10.

Those 2 results took spot connected either broadside of a 2-1 decision successful the Champions League quarter-final archetypal limb against Bayern Munich, leaving them with signicant enactment to bash successful the instrumentality fixture successful glory. 

Los Blancos produced 1 of their champion performances of an underwhelming play successful Munich, establishing a 3-2 pb to level the necktie connected aggregate, lone for Eduardo Camavinga's 86th-minute reddish paper to plaything the momentum successful Bayern's favour. 

While Real Madrid were near angered by the determination to amusement Camavinga his 2nd yellowish paper for delaying the restart, Bayern took afloat vantage to score 2 precocious goals to condemn Los Blancos to back-to-back quarter-final exits successful the Champions League.

With the league rubric realistically retired of reach, the absorption and speculation are already turning to the aboriginal of Alvaro Arbeloa and squad plans for the 2026-27 campaign.

However, Arbeloa's charges indispensable stay nonrecreational and enactment each their efforts into Tuesday's outing astatine the Bernabeu, wherever they volition effort to grounds a ninth consecutive head-to-head triumph against Alaves - a winning tally they continued with a 2-1 occurrence successful December's travel to Mendizorroza.

Alaves, meanwhile, person been an entertaining squad to ticker since Quique Sanchez Flores took implicit the reins astatine the commencement of March.

The Basque broadside conceded precocious successful a decision to Valencia and a gully against Villarreal, earlier they fought backmost from 3 goals down to propulsion disconnected a stunning 4-3 triumph implicit Celta Vigo.

Lucas Boye has proven cardinal successful Alaves' past 2 outings, coming disconnected the seat to nett a stoppage-time equaliser successful a 2-2 scoreline against Osasuna, earlier helium repeated the feat successful a thrilling 3-3 draw successful the caller distant clash with Real Sociedad.

Having collected 33 points from 31 matches, Alaves are sitting conscionable a constituent wide of 18th-placed Elche with 7 fixtures near to play, including hard matches against Real Madrid and Barcelona.

With Real Madrid reeling from their Champions League, El Glorioso may view Tuesday's crippled arsenic a existent accidental to clinch their archetypal head-to-head triumph since winning 2-1 astatine the Bernabeu successful November 2020.

However, Alaves volition surely request to connection a antiaircraft betterment if they are to propulsion disconnected a astonishment win, considering they person conceded 3 goals successful each of their past 3 distant games. 

Real Madrid La Liga form:

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Real Madrid signifier (all competitions):

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Alaves La Liga form:

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Team News

Real Madrid defender Raul Asencio has been ruled retired of the fixture aft being diagnosed with gastroenteritis.

Brazilian attacker Rodrygo is simply a semipermanent absentee aft suffering an anterior cruciate ligament wounded astatine the commencement of March. 

Goalkeeper Andrey Lunin volition proceed to deputise successful the lack of Thibaut Courtois, who has missed the past 5 games with a thigh injury.

Aurelien Tchouameni volition instrumentality to the midfield aft being banned for the 2nd limb decision against Bayern Munich, portion Alvaro Carreras is an enactment to play astatine left-back.

Alaves person nary caller wounded concerns, though they stay without the services of Carlos Benavidez owed to injury. 

Abde Rebbach is acceptable to service a one-match prohibition aft picking up his 5th yellowish paper of the play successful the gully with Real Sociedad.

Yusi is apt to regenerate Rebbach successful the near wing-back position, portion Boye is pushing for a starting berth astatine the apical extremity of the pitch. 

Real Madrid imaginable starting lineup:

Lunin; Alexander-Arnold, Militao, Rudiger, Carreras; Valverde, Tchouameni, Guler, Bellingham; Mbappe, Vinicius Jr

Alaves imaginable starting lineup:

Sivera; Perez, Otto, Tenaglia, Parada, Yusi; Ibanez, Blanco, Guridi; Martinez, Boye

We say: Real Madrid 3-1 Alaves

Real Madrid whitethorn beryllium resigned to decision successful the rubric race, but they volition inactive privation to nutrient a affirmative effect to a mediocre tally of form, and we deliberation the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior could bask themselves against an Alaves squad that has been susceptible defensively successful caller times. 

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