Preview
Real Madrid has to win knowing that Atletico Madrid have won today against Valencia.
Zidane´s team have a two winless run and need a win to gain back their confidence. But this job will have to been done withouth Sergio Ramos and Karim Benzema.
On the other hand, Alaves have drawn on their last three games and will give their opponents a good battle to try to get out of the game with any points.
Lineups:
Real Madrid
Alavés
Macth offical: Adrian Cordero Vega
VAR: Jose Luis Gonazlez-Gonzalez
There will be a minute of silence to pay tribute to Diego Maradona.
1´KICK OFF
Alavés makes the first move of the game.
4´PENALTY
An early penalty for Alavés.
Tomas Pina heads Lucas Perez´s corner and hits on Nacho Fernandez´s arm.
6´GOOOAAALLL!
Lucas Perez converts the penalty and Alavés takes the lead.
The striker strikes it bottom left and scores despite Courtois diving the same way.
Embed from Getty Images11´
Real Madrid must wake up. Poor start from Zidane´s team conceding a penalty that early in the game.
15´HEADER
Mariano Diaz heads Kroos´s corner but goes straight into Pacheco Flores´s hands.
Embed from Getty Images18´BOOKED
Casemiro gets a yellow card as he steps on Perez´s foot.
20´CHANCE
Hazards drives forward, cuts inside and shots close to the edge of the box but Pachecho blocks it.
22´
Another corner for Alaves and it is now six corners for them in only 20 minutes.
24´COURTOIS SAVES THE SECOND ONE!
Long ball from Jota Peleteiro which leaves Perez on a one on one with Courtois. The Spanish striker tries to chip it over Courtois but the Belgian deflects it to a corner.
Embed from Getty Images28´SUBSTITUTION
Real Madrid:
33´
Real Madrid are not supposing any threat to Alaves who are playing comfortably and taking advantage of any mistakes in defence.
37´
Another corner for Madrid in which they are not knowing how to take advantage from them.
39´DOUBLE SAVE
Kroos with the first shot saved by Pacheco, bounces back to the German again who takes his second shot and once again Pachecho saves it to deflect it to the corner.
40´CLOSE
Lucas Vazquez with a great cross which connects with Mariano´s head however, goes very centered and to Pachecho´s hands.
45+1
The referee only adds one more minute to the first time.
HALF TIME
Alavés is beating Real Madrid in a very well planned game. A unintentional handball from Nacho led Lucas Perez to score the penalty and take the lead.
Real Madrid begun to create chances on the last 15 minutes of the half but not enough to score a goal. Not only they are behind the scoreboard, Hazard had to be subbed due to an injury.
Embed from Getty Images45´SECOND HALF
Real Madrid has the posession in search of a goal.
49´GOOOAAALLL!
WHAT A HOWLER FROM COURTOIS!
Alaves scores the seceond of the game.
Varane gives a back pass to Courtois who then tries passing the ball to Casemiro but Joselu intercepts the ball and taps the ball in.
0-2.
Embed from Getty Images53´
Good cross from Luis Rioja which gets blocked by Courtois.
54´SAVE
Pachecho dives and blocks Kroos´s volley which went bottom right of the goal.
58´WIDE
Kroos who looks desesperate to score, shoots from outside the box and goes outside
61´BOOKED
Kroos is shown a yellow card due to his bad reaction towards a decision made by the referee.
62´SUBSTITUTION
Asensio comes off and Vinicius comes in.
63´TOP SAVE
REAL MADRID IS FALLING APART!
Perez runs forwards, cuts inside leaving Nacho out of the map and finishes magnifically but Courtois guesses his intentions and saves it.
67´BOOKED
Rioja dives inside the box and the referee books him. Unacceptable.
69´OVER THE BAR
Joselu sends it to the clouds!
Lucas Perez on the counterattack drives forward, bodies Varane and waits for Joselu to get to the box but Joselu sends it over the bar to what could´ve been a 0-3.
70´DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION
Real Madrid:
73´CLOSE
Great control from Rodrygo who then tries finishing to the far post. Really close from scoring the first goal for Real Madrid.
74´ANOTHER ONE FOR REAL MADRID
It´s now Vazquez who tries scoring but has had the same outcome as Rodrygo. The player looked for the long post but when wider than the last chance.
76´BOOKED
Oscar Duarte booked with a yellow card after a foul on Rodrygo.
83´ CLEARANCE
Florian Lejeune clears it off on the line!
Mariano heads a cross which came from Vazquez but Lejeune cleared it off just on the line.
86´GOOOAAALLL!
Casemiro pulls one back!
Odegaard takes the corner which ends up on Vinicius´feet who then shoots and bounces off to Casemiro and just has to tap it in.
Embed from Getty Images88´BOOKED
Edgar Mendez steps on Casemiro and gets a yellow card for it.
88´DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION
Alavés:
89´SAVE
Horrendous freekick from Real Madrid players, Lucas Perez drives it forward and finishes but Courtois blocks it.
90+5 STOPPAGE TIME
Five minutes is added to the end of the game.
90+5 CROSSBAR
Isco has the last one!
The Spanish player drives to the box cuts inside and smacks it into the bar.
END
Alavés takes the win in tonight´s game!
Incredible game from Alaves who have been very smart tonight. Lucas Perez and Pacheco have been the best from their team and are two points away from Europa League positions.
On the other side, Real Madrid pulled one back at the end of the game but not enough to equalise it. Bad game from los blancos who have problems in defence and in the attack. Real Madrid drops more points and are right now six points away from the leaders.
Embed from Getty ImagesRead more of our Spanish coverage by clicking here.
