Alaves vs Las Palmas Preview & Prediction | 2024-25 Spanish Primera
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These two sides gained promotion together at the end of the 2022/23 season and they have both enjoyed reasonable and steady starts to the campaign as Las Palmas make the long trip to the north of Spain to take on Alaves in the Basque Country.
KICK-OFF DATE/TIME: Sunday 1st September, 2024 - UK – 4:00pm / US ET – 11:00am / US PT – 8:00am
HOW TO WATCH ON TV: UK – Premier Sports / US – ESPN have the exclusive rights to La Liga games in the USA, so Alaves vs Las Palmas may be televised on one of their affiliated channels
HOW TO WATCH ONLINE: UK – Premier Sports / US – ESPN+
ALAVES PREVIEW: EXCELLENT MIDWEEK
In their first season back in the top-flight, Deportivo Alaves performed well to steer clear of the bottom three and the relegation places, despite reports that Luis Garcia Plaza would be sacked mid-way through the campaign. The Basque club will be seeking to avoid second season syndrome this year.
The home team started the 2024/25 La Liga campaign with a 2-1 defeat in Galicia against Celta Vigo at Balaidos before then sharing a goalless draw against Real Betis, down to ten men for the final few minutes of that game. They did then, though, produce a remarkable performance to down Real Sociedad by two goals to one in San Sebastian.
LAS PALMAS PREVIEW: EXCELLENT MIDWEEK
Over the summer, Las Palmas lost the manager that took them up and kept them up with Garcia Pimienta departing for Sevilla. He has been replaced by a manager in Luis Carrion with similar tactical principles and philosophy with an intent to try and get the ball down and play in a La Masia-style way.
The Canary Islanders come into this one on the back of an excellent performance against Real Madrid in midweek as they shared a 1-1 draw in a game in which they led and very nearly pinched all three points late on. Prior to that, they had started with a 2-2 draw against Sevilla before being beaten 2-1 by newly-promoted Leganes in the capital.
ALAVES TEAM NEWS: FULLY FIT AND AVAILABLE
PREDICTED XI (X-X-X-X): Antonio Sivera; Hugo Novoa, Abqar, Aridane Hernandez, Diarra; Ander Guevara, Carlos Benavidez; Carlos Vicente, Jon Guridi, Rebbach; Asier Villalibre
UNAVAILABLE:
QUESTIONABLE:
LAS PALMAS TEAM NEWS: SINKGRAVEN BACK, JANUZAJ STILL OUT
PREDICTED XI (4-1-4-1): Cillessen; Park, Alex Suarez, McKenna, Mika Marmol; Jose Campana; Sandro Ramirez, Javier Munoz, Kirian Rodriguez, Alberto Moleiro; McBurnie
UNAVAILABLE: Januzaj (Injured)
QUESTIONABLE:
ALAVES VS LAS PALMAS PREDICTION
Both of these sides will be quite content with how their seasons have gone thus far. Alaves will simply be aiming to avoid the drop and their Basque derby win against Real Sociedad was a major boost after a couple of underwhelming performances. Las Palmas will be frustrated not to have pulled off an impressive defeat of Madrid in midweek but they do have a clear attacking threat. We may be in for a surprise thriller this weekend.
ALAVES VS LAS PALMAS TIP: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
