📏 Form Guide

Alaves

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Alaves are hoping to win again after their last result, the 1-2 La Liga success against Espanyol.

In that match, Alaves had 50% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. For Alaves, the scorers were Blanco (27') and Lucas Boyé (71'). On the other side, Espanyol got 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Roberto Fernández (15') scored for Espanyol.

It’s not been often in recent games where Alaves have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Alaves have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals on the way.

Real Sociedad

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Last time out, Real Sociedad drew 1-1 in the La Liga tie with Athletic Bilbao.

In that match, Real Sociedad managed 45% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Real Sociedad was Guedes (37'). On the other side, Athletic Bilbao had 19 shots at goal with 4 on target. Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta (88') was the scorer for Athletic Bilbao.

The stats don’t lie, and Real Sociedad have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals overall. In defence, Real Sociedad could really do with shoring things up. We will have to see whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 13/03/2022 shows that Alaves have won 3 of them & Real Sociedad 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined total of 9 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 from Babazorros and 4 created by Txuri-urdin. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.5.

The previous league match featuring these sides was La Liga match day 15 on 06/12/2025 and the score finished Alaves 1-0 Real Sociedad.

On that day, Alaves managed 38% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Lucas Boyé (45').

At the other end, Real Sociedad had 10 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Javier Alberola Rojas.

📋 Team News: Alaves

We are thinking that Babazorros should use a 4-4-2 formation for the game, handing starts to Antonio Sivera, Jonny Otto, Nahuel Tenaglia, Jon Pacheco, Youssef Enriquez, Calebe, Pablo Ibanez, Ander Guevara, Abderrahman Rebbach, Antonio Martinez and Lucas Boye.

📋 Team News: Real Sociedad

Thanks to a largely available group, there is just the one fitness worry for the Real Sociedad gaffer Pellegrino Matarazzo to contend with. Arsen Zakharyan (Calf injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Txuri-urdin seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Alex Remiro, Jon Aramburu, Igor Zubeldia, Duje Caleta-Car, Sergio Gomez, Carlos Soler, Jon Gorrotxategi, Goncalo Guedes, Brais Mendez, Ander Barrenetxea and Mikel Oyarzabal.

⚡ Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Real Sociedad and Alaves should play out a closely-fought contest here.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. That’s why our selection here is for a close game with a 1-1 score draw at the conclusion of the game.

Peter Guest, 02:00 04/02/2026