Atletico Madrid vs Deportivo Alaves

Estadio Metropolitano forms the backdrop for a ‘David vs Goliath’ La Liga clash between Atletico Madrid and Deportivo Alaves.Despite playing one game fewer than most of the division, Atletico Madrid finished the previous La Liga round as the league’s second-best attack with 23 goals following an emphatic 3-0 victoryat Celta Vigo. Diego Simeone’s men head into proceedings on an eye-catching five-match winning streak in La Liga, which forms part of their stellar league start (W7, D1, L1). Another win here would equal the club’s best points tally after the opening ten La Liga games since their title-winning campaign in 2013/14. Interestingly, ‘Los Rojiblancos’ have won all five home matches this season despite failing to keep a clean sheet on each occasion. Their impressive format the Estadio Metropolitano bodes well as they bid to extend a five-game winning home league run against Alaves.In the meantime, Deportivo Alaves wasted a second-half lead in a 1-1 draw at Villarreal last weekend, extending their winless run in La Liga to six matches (D3, L3). Low scoring has been acommon theme in the visitors’ league fixtures this season, with their last eight in a row featuring under 2.5 goals since a goal-glutted 4-3 home win over Sevilla in August. But after a dreadful away start that had seen them lose their first three league games on the road ‘to nil,’ Luis Garcia Plaza’s men have drawn their last two matches on hostile turf, both by the same 1-1 scoreline. Asone of only two sides yet to hit a 10-goal barrier in La Liga this season (8), ‘El Glorioso’ can onlyhope to contain the damage at the back if they’re to pick up points in Madrid for the first time since 2016.