El Rayo also runs over Alavés

The Lightning follow intractable at home: ten games, eight wins and two draws. This time it was the Alaves the ‘victim’ of Andoni Iraola’s men, who continue to run over all those who appear in Vallecas. The first 45 minutes have been enough for the Madrilenians to sentence with two goals from Sergi guardiola Y Chain the encounter.

True to his style of pressure, speed and maximum intensity, Rayo has passed over an Alavés who has never been comfortable on the grass of the Vallecano fiefdom and who sees his position in the qualifying table worsened, not managing to move away from the relegation zone.

Andoni Iraola’s Ray needs little to create danger: at 5 minutes Álvaro García had already arrived twice on his left wing, first by taking advantage of a loss by the Vitorian defense and the second, in a counter led by Comesaña. Neither of them has borne fruit, but they have served as a warning for an Alavés who has come out to give the initiative to the locals, aware that with spaces their dangerousness increases exponentially.

Alavés, without the ball

To the basques it barely lasted the ball in his boots before a Rayo who also knew how to play looking for his opportunity, fleeing from vertigo. But in one of these Rioja has intercepted a bad pass from Catena, advanced a few meters and released a left-foot from more than 20 meters to show off Dimitrievski, who sent a corner at 15. It was the first warning of an Alavés orphan of the initiative of the game.

The reaction of Rayo has not been delayed, which at 19 premiered the score by means of Sergi guardiola, by taking advantage with his right hand of a center from the left of Álvaro García and whose shot was validated after being reviewed by the VAR.

And with hardly any transition time, seven minutes later the second arrived, the work of Chain heading from a corner. A bit that also enters the small history of the Vallecano painting, as it is the number 500 of the team at home in the First Division.

The target has emboldened to a Lightning with Trejo at the controls and has daunted an Alavés aware that two goals is a very difficult advantage to play against a team like Iraola’s, voracious on the wings, suffocating in the center of the field … and without its great offensive reference, the ‘Tigre’ Falcao, on the bench. Arguments that have served the Madrilenians to add eight wins and two draws in the ten games they have played under their own fiefdom.

He has tried, although timidly, From the source Heading at 34, without problems for the local goal. Alavés has insisted as a result of that action, although it has been Chain who had the goal at 38, at the exit of another corner, although his shot has died in the hands of Pacheco. And Álvaro García has tried again, crashing his right hand into the Vitorian post. On the counter has been Joselu to pass from Pere Pons who has had it, forcing the stretch of the local goal. A crazy minute that ended the change due to injury to Álvaro García, a real nightmare for the Vitorian defense during that first half.

Misleading start

Alavés has come out giving a step forward after the break, with the risk that this entails against a Ray that lives comfortably against. It has been almost a mirage, because right away the local eleven has taken the initiative again. retake the speech and dominance of the initial period, despite the isolated attempt of the newcomer Edgar at 58 looking for a thread with his left foot in a quick counterattack.

Trejo, the best rayista of the game, has tried to offer the 3-0 but his pass back at 66 has not found a finisher. Without as much continuity as in the first half, Rayo has continued to have control of a crash from which Alavés seemed unable to modify the script, not even with the changes introduced by Javi Calleja.

The Ray, with a physical wear Importantly, he has pulled longer possessions to punish Alavés, prolonging the plays before rehearsing the shot.

Comesaña e they They had it in ’77, when Iraola had already decided to dose Trejo and Sergi Guardiola, looking for freshness with Nteka and Unai López in the final stretch of the match. On the Alava side, Calleja has played the ‘Pellistri paper’ in the final quarter hour.

Attempts unsuccessful Before an irreducible Ray, which has allowed Falcao to give minutes in the final three. Those that the Colombian has played while the fans said goodbye to a game that has left the locals momentarily in the zone of Champions League.