Mendizorroza dismisses the 2017 hosting a key duel in the relegation zone, which faces the Babazorro team and Míchel’s Málaga, in a match of the 17th round of the Santander League. Deportivo Alavés had a magnificent return to the Santander League, finishing in mid-table positions in the season and competing in the final of the Copa del Rey against FC Barcelona. The ambitious project of Josean Querejeta, president of Saski Baskonia and head of the Glorioso, is remade after the departure of many of the team’s banners last year. Not even the coach, Mauricio Pellegrino; nor the yielded Theo Hernández and Marcos Llorente, today players of Real Madrid; nor the lateral Kiko Femenía, who went free to Watford; nor the central Zouhair Feddal, sold to Real Betis for 2.5 million; and the extreme Edgar Méndez, for which Paco Jémez and his Cruz Azul have paid 5 million euros.
To cover all these outings, the end of Real Madrid Burgui, the central players Rodrigo Ely, Guillermo Maripán, Rubén Sobrino, Antonio Cristian and Ermedin Demirovic arrive to the team; left-back Rubén Duarte, from Espanyol; the end Mubarak Wakaso, yielded by Panathinaikos; the playmaker Enzo Zidane, loaned by Real Madrid; midfielder Tomás Pina, on loan from Bruges; the lateral Héctor Hernández, yielded by the Real Sociedad and the extreme left-handed Alfonso Pedraza, yielded by the Villarreal.
The Basque team occupies the 18th position with 12 points in 16 days after having won the first two games with Abelardo on the bench (going up against Girona in Montilivi 2-3, 2-0 in Mendizorroza against UD Las Palmas) of falling in the Wanda Metropolitano (1-0) last day.
Once Probable: Pacheco – Héctor Hernández, Maripán, Ely, Vigaray – Manu García, Wakaso – Burgui, Óscar Romero, Ibai Gómez – Rubén Sobrino.
Málaga is 19th, with 11 points out of the 48 possible, and comes to this game somewhat frustrated after not being able to add to their first away game (0-2 in Anoeta) a victory in the Andalusian derby against Real Betis (0-2) the last day.
The people of Malaga went from being protagonists in the last 10 games of last season, coinciding with the arrival of Míchel to the bench, to be a shadow of that set, adding 1 point in 9 games. Several of the team’s props left, leaving at home less money than they were worth. Sandro (to Everton for the 6 million euros of its clause), Ignacio Camacho (he went to Wolfsburg in exchange for 15 million euros) and Pablo Fornals (Villarreal paid the twelve million of its termination clause) have left a void Huge in the team, as has been seen throughout the preseason. Players like Javi García have escaped the networks of Malaga, which have spent less than 5 million euros in the signings of Banfield’s midfielder, Emanuel Cecchini; the center-back of Sevilla Atlético, Diego González; and Turkish goalkeeper Cenk Gönen, star of one of the preseason sings. In addition, the left-handed Juankar comes free; the French center Paul Baysse; and the coach’s son, Adrián González, who faces his former teammates from Eibar. Next to them, the goalkeeper Roberto, from Espanyol, is on loan; and the striker Borja Bastón, without room in the mediocre Swansea Welsh.
Eleven Probable: Roberto – Rosales, Luís Hernández, Baysse, Juankar – Rolón, Recio – Keko, Juanpi, Castro – Peñaranda.
In the last 16 occasions that have seen the faces, the people of Malaga have won 8 times, with 3 draws and 5 Basque victories. In the last five duels, Málaga won the first three by identical result (1-0), tying at 1 in Mendizorroza last season and winning at La Rosaleda 2-1.
The prediction is that the locals are going to take this match forward.
Prediction Today:
Deportivo Alavés 2.10
