Alavés confirms its improvement against Elche

Javier Calleja placeholder image made it clear. Like last year, just a few days ago he said that the Deportivo de Alavés was going to be a LaLiga Santander team next season, and it seems that its players have taken it seriously.

The Basques achieved their second consecutive victory to catch oxygen and get out of the well. His victim was the Elche (1-0), which they now have only one point and which they knew how to control, especially with special success from Calleja in the reading of the meeting.

It was two bipolar game times. The first, with great enthusiasm on the part of the two teams but less successful. Little elaborate plays that resulted as a product that neither of them arrived. Until after half an hour of the game there were no occasions, and the first ones were clear. Pacheco He took a stop and Boyé and minutes later he did the same Kiko Casilla in a header from Ximo Navarro, while in the rebound Pons licked the stick.

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Woke up the Alaves back then and realized then that the weakness of the Elche it was on Mojica’s back. Calleja should have made it clear in the break, because the babazorro team went out to look for that and a few minutes into the second half was already ahead. Joselu had it, who met again with Kiko Casilla, and in the corner that Laguardia took, he combed and Luom he hit the far post (47 ‘).

The goal seemed to wake up Elche, who then had control and moved the ball quickly in the Alavés field, although without generating anything in the rival area. Fran Escribá looked for something different, putting Pastore and Benedetto in, but the one who again sensed well was Calleja, who recovered the ball after making Moyá enter while Pellestri He kept making life miserable for Mojica.

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While the Alaves He continued to have them, Elche only had one, and it was controversial. Carrillo he scored as a Chilean but in an advanced position. The point is that before the ball reached him, it touched the knee of a defender, and there was the question of the new rule. Gil Manzano had to resort to the VAR and he annulled it with good judgment.

The Alavés party dropped revolutions after that and the Elche, although he did not accept those circumstances and it was Pastore, who in a magic touch, almost got his rival in trouble.

The Basque team could even finish scoring second, especially in a clear against very badly managed by Edgar. Fortunately it was not necessary and Alaves he got a well-deserved and much-needed victory, although the bad news of the possible injury to Pacheco, who was substituted in the 84th minute after spraining his ankle.