Real Oviedo vs Alaves - prediction, team news, lineups

Alaves volition proceed their La Liga endurance bid erstwhile they question to the Estadio Carlos Tartiere for Sunday's clash with Real Oviedo.

The visitors caput into the penultimate matchday in 16th place, portion their already-relegated hosts are propping up the standings. 

Match preview

After winning promotion via the Segunda Division playoffs, Oviedo person yet struggled to nutrient the level required to vie successful their archetypal top-flight play since 2000-01.

Their relegation was confirmed with Girona's 1-1 gully with Rayo Vallecano past Monday, leaving them with lone pridefulness to play for successful Thursday's distant clash with Real Madrid. 

Unfortunately for Oviedo, their archetypal travel to the Bernabeu successful 25 years resulted in a 2-0 defeat, though it inactive produced a heart-warming infinitesimal erstwhile Spanish shot icon Santi Cazorla received an ovation upon his accomplishment arsenic a second-half substitute successful what is apt to beryllium his last outing successful 1 of the country's astir celebrated venues. 

The boyhood Oviedo instrumentality is present acceptable to marque his last quality astatine the Carlos Tartiere successful beforehand of his adoring faithful. 

Cazorla volition privation to assistance his broadside assertion their seventh league triumph and their 5th successful beforehand of their supporters. 

Guillermo Almada's broadside should astatine slightest fancy their chances of picking up a point, having avoided decision successful 4 of their erstwhile 5 location games, though they are winless successful their past 3 astatine the Carlos Tartiere.

Alaves, meanwhile, are successful a fierce conflict to widen their top-flight enactment into a 4th consecutive season. 

They precocious boosted their endurance hopes with a 1-0 victory implicit newly-crowned La Liga champions Barcelona, who appeared to beryllium feeling the effects of their title-clinching Clasico win.

Alaves yet took afloat vantage of a much-changed and sluggish Barcelona side, with Ibrahim Diabate scoring the game's lone extremity to fire El Glorioso to their archetypal head-to-head location triumph since December 2001. 

As a effect of that win, Alaves climbed up to 16th spot successful the standings, leaving them a constituent wide of the driblet portion up of games against Oviedo and Rayo Vallecano, the second of whom they volition play conscionable days earlier the Conference League final. 

Quique Sanchez Flores volition anticipation his broadside tin deed 43 points with a triumph connected Sunday, though that volition beryllium easier said than done for a squad that has won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 7 distant trips (D3, L3). 

They person besides not won a competitory distant crippled astatine Oviedo since signaling a constrictive 1-0 triumph successful January 1980

Real Oviedo La Liga form:

W D L L D L 

Alaves La Liga form:

D L W L D W 

Team News

Oviedo are apt to beryllium without the midfield duo of Leandro Dendoncker and Ovie Ejaria owed to injury. 

Defender Javi Lopez and midfielder Kwasi Sibo are acceptable to instrumentality to the starting lineup aft serving one-match bans successful midweek. 

Almada has already confirmed Cazorla volition commencement successful what is acceptable to beryllium an affectional time for the 41-year-old.

As for Alaves, they person doubts implicit the availability of Lucas Boye, portion Facundo Garces continues to service a FIFA ban.

Ville Koski is hoping to support his spot up of Jonny Otto aft impressing successful his archetypal starting accidental since joining the nine connected indebtedness from Istra 1961 successful January.

Pablo Ibanez could instrumentality to the lineup if Sanchez Flores opts to freshen up his midfield pursuing the exertions of Wednesday’s triumph implicit Barcelona.

Real Oviedo imaginable starting lineup:

Escandell; Vidal, Costas, Calvo, Lopez; Sibo, Colombatto; Chaira, Cazorla, Hassan; Vinas

Alaves imaginable starting lineup:

Sivera; Perez, Tenaglia, Koski, Parada, Rebbach; Guridi, Blanco, Ibanez; Martinez, Diabate

We say: Real Oviedo 1-1 Alaves

After beating the champions, Alaves volition beryllium the favourites to instrumentality 3 points from Sunday's fixture, but their caller distant signifier suggests that it volition beryllium a pugnacious task.

Oviedo volition besides privation to enactment retired a beardown show successful their last location crippled and Cazorla's past outing astatine the Carlos Tartiere, and with that successful mind, we deliberation they volition frustrate the visitors successful a people draw. 

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