Alavés, at their best moment of the year: four games unbeaten

The Alavés crosses the best streak of the season after winning in Valladolid, drawing with Barcelona in Mendizorroza, get a draw with Levante in the Ciutat and sign a 2-2 with Valencia in Vitoria. They are four games without losing after twenty months without getting it. In the last six games, the babazorro team has achieved 9 of the 18 points at stake. The previous streak was just 1 of 12.

On the other hand, last Sunday's tie was the third in a row, something that did not happen to the Vitorian club in First Division since 1956. It happened between days 17 and 19 of that campaign when he signed a draw with Real Sociedad (1-1), Atlético de Madrid (0-0) and Real Murcia (3-3). The Albiazul entity has not had too many presences in the highest category of Spanish football. Their seasons in Second are not far away, Second B and even Third.

There are occasions in which he receives an initial blow and then has to come back to add. In other cases, like last Sunday against Valencia, the opposite happens. It got to put itself 2-0 with goals of Ximo Navarro and Lucas Pérez and then he let himself be tied and even ended up asking for the time because the Levantines made merits to get the victory. In any case, it must be recognized that the team is now in a good moment.

Only Lucas has scored more than one goal

Curious numbers that Alavés manages this season in terms of goals. He has a total of nine goals and only Lucas Pérez has been able to score twice. He got it Sunday against Valencia by transforming a penalty in the first half. He had already scored a couple of weeks before at the Levante stadium. The scorers have been defenders, midfielders and forwards: Rodrigo Ely and Ximo Navarro (defenders), Edgar, Borja Sáinz, Rioja and Pina (midfielders), Lucas and Joselu (forwards).

The Alaves lost at home with him Betis in the first match (0-1) and no footballer “got wet”. In the second, it was Joselu who opened the locker room for the babazorros scoring in Granada a goal that did not serve to score. After the tie at 0 with the Getafe at home, was Edgar Méndez, in Villarreal, the second of the Albiazules scorers. Then came Ely (Ahtletic in Mendizorroza), Borja and Pina (in Valladolid), Luis Rioja (at home against Barça), Lucas Pérez on the visit to the Levante field and, again, Lucas with Ximo Navarro in the 2-2 with Valencia.

Machín's team has gotten a so much of penalti (the one of Lucas on Sunday, that another one missed in the Ciutat de Valencia) and just one of the nine it was with the head (Rodrigo Ely's against the Bilbao in Vitoria). Another almost record number are the three reds that the team has seen so far this season: for Duarte, Jota Peleteiro and Edgar, all of them after taking two yellows. There have been no direct expulsions but it is something that worries the coach who went on to say that “you have to know how to play differently when you already wear a yellow“.