Alaves are not a good side, but they are traditionally strong at home and have recently changed manager in their fight to stay up. Indeed, last 5 home games have produced only loss, 0-1 to Barcelona, in a spectacularly low-scoring run. In the actual table Alaves are in relegation zone, next to bottom, but the underlying performance data gives them some more hope as they still are close to it, but class-wise they are just one of the bottom-7 teams, not any worse, neither any better.

Sevilla have not been particularly good on their travels, they have scored 11 goals in 13 away games and there is hard to see any goal fest tonight either. They had a good week, qualified to next round in EL and they will host West Ham next week, and also they did beat local rivals Betis in the normally fierce derby, but this time they were so dominant that the match lacked intensity. However, good results, perhaps even too good to stay mentally sharp?

When the teams met in November Sevilla needed a late Rakitic goal from a poor position to equalize, the match ended deservedly 2-2. Sevilla had more shots, but not many actual goal scoring chances.

Alaves have a full squad apart from suspended midfielder Loum, replacing him is no problem. Sevilla still - or again - suffer from injuries, mostly attacking ones as they miss Papu, Suso, Lamela and new signing Martial. The good thing is that another new signing Corona has been a pleasure to follow.

Joselu from Alaves has scored 12 of their 21 goals so it is easy to see where the danger comes from, but still he is so strong in the air and has a good feet that Sevilla have to be careful with him, and some cards and hard tackles would not surprise.

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阿拉维斯不是一支出色的球队，但他们传统上在主场表现出色，并且最近更换了经理以保持熬夜。事实上，过去的 5 场主场比赛仅以 0-1 负于巴塞罗那，进球不多。在实际表中，阿拉维斯处于降级区，紧随其后，但基本的表现数据给了他们更多的希望，因为他们仍然接近它，但在班级方面，他们只是排名倒数 7 的球队之一，并没有更糟，也没有更好的。

塞维利亚的客场并不是特别出色，他们在 13 场客场比赛中打进 11 球，今晚也很难看到任何进球盛宴。他们度过了愉快的一周，获得了在 EL 下一轮的参赛资格，他们将在下周主场迎战西汉姆联队，并且他们确实在通常激烈的德比中击败了当地的对手贝蒂斯，但这一次他们的统治力如此之强，以至于比赛缺乏强度。然而，好的结果，也许甚至太好了以至于不能保持头脑清醒？

当球队在 11 月相遇时，塞维利亚需要迟到拉基蒂奇的进球扳平比分，2-2当之无愧地结束比赛。塞维利亚的射门次数更多，但实际进球机会并不多。

阿拉维斯除了停赛的中场卢姆外，有完整的阵容，替换他是没有问题的。塞维利亚仍然 - 或再次 - 遭受伤病困扰，主要是因为他们错过了帕普、苏索、拉梅拉和新签约的马夏尔。好消息是，另一个新签约的 Corona 可以出场。

阿拉维斯的何塞卢打进了他们 21 个进球中的 12 个，所以很容易看出危险来自哪里，但他仍然在空中非常强壮，脚法很好，塞维利亚不得不小心他。另外比赛的牌可能会比较多。

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