The current league edition is the most even in recent years. A total of twelve teams, including Alavés, are separated by just four points.
Thus, Granada, seventh and with the possibility of entering the qualifiers of the Europa League, leads this group with 15 points while closing it with 11 Osasuna, eighteenth and first of the three that right now would go down to Second A.
Alavés, with 14, remains for the fifth day in a row with three income on the decline.
On the other hand, Pablo
Machin he only made two substitutions in the derby against Real. Despite the extremely high wear of his team, which played with one less in the last half hour, he preferred to trust the ten who started the match to try to save a point.
Thus, he put Martin by Luke
Perez in the 71st minute, which had passed to the right wing, to reinforce the defensive capacity and Edgar
Mendez for an exhausted Luis
Rioja in 88 to refresh the left-handed side. One more sample of their blind confidence in the headlines that defeated Real Madrid and repeated in the derby.