📏 Form Guide

Alaves

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Alaves will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-2 La Liga triumph versus Espanyol.

In that game, Alaves managed 50% possession and 11 shots on goal with 7 on target. For Alaves, the goals were scored by Blanco (27') and Lucas Boyé (71'). At the other end, Espanyol got 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. Roberto Fernández (15') scored for Espanyol.

It’s not been often in recent games where Alaves have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Alaves have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals on the way.

Real Sociedad

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Last time out, Real Sociedad drew 1-1 in the La Liga match with Athletic Bilbao.

In that game, Real Sociedad had 45% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The only player to score for Real Sociedad was Guedes (37'). At the other end, Athletic Bilbao had 19 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta (88') was the scorer for Athletic Bilbao.

The stats don’t lie, and Real Sociedad have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals overall. In defence, Real Sociedad could really do with shoring things up. We will have to see whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 13/03/2022 shows us that Alaves have won 3 of them and Real Sociedad 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined total of 9 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 of them from Babazorros and 4 belonging to Txuri-urdin. The average goals per game has been 1.5.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was La Liga match day 15 on 06/12/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Alaves 1-0 Real Sociedad.

In that game, Alaves had 38% possession and 14 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer was Lucas Boyé (45').

Real Sociedad had 10 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Javier Alberola Rojas.

📋 Team News: Alaves

In our view, Babazorros may well employ a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game featuring Raul Fernandez, Nahuel Tenaglia, Facundo Garces, Jon Pacheco, Victor Parada, Antonio Blanco, Denis Suarez, Pablo Ibanez, Jon Guridi, Abderrahman Rebbach and Antonio Martinez.

📰 Team News: Real Sociedad

In an otherwise healthy squad, there’s just the lone fitness problem for the Real Sociedad boss Pellegrino Matarazzo to be concerned with. Arsen Zakharyan (Calf injury) won’t be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that Txuri-urdin seem most likely to play in a 4-4-2 formation, giving starts to Alex Remiro, Alvaro Odriozola, Duje Caleta-Car, Igor Zubeldia, Aihen Munoz, Brais Mendez, Benat Turrientes, Carlos Soler, Pablo Marin, Mikel Oyarzabal and Goncalo Guedes.

🧠 Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Real Sociedad and Alaves should play out a closely-fought contest here.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. That’s why our selection here is for a close game with a 1-1 score draw at the conclusion of the game.

Peter Guest, 15:00 04/02/2026