Alaves
Osasuna
Match summary
Alaves won comfortably, 5-2 at home to Osasuna. Alaves led 2-0 at half-time.
In the first half, Lucas Boyé put Alaves ahead in the 27th minute, set up by Mariano and Mariano made it 2-0 in the 36th minute, set up by Antonio Sivera. In the second half, Ante Budimir pulled one back to make it 2-1 with a header in the 46th minute, set up by Moi Gómez, Boyé made it 3-1 in the 51st minute, set up by Carles Aleñá, Budimir made it 3-2 from the penalty spot in the 64th minute, Boyé made it 4-2 with a header in the 68th minute, set up by Ángel Pérez, and Pablo Ibáñez made it 5-2 with a header in the 90th minute, set up by Ángel Pérez.
There was little between the sides on chances: Alaves created 1.60 expected goals (xG) from 12 shots, Osasuna 1.64 from 7.
Alaves recorded a convincing five-goal victory against Osasuna in La Liga on matchday four, despite both sides registering identical fifty per cent shares of possession and similar overall territory. Alaves generated twelve total shots with seven on target, outperforming their expected goals figure of 1.60 to match their emphatic scoreline. Osasuna produced seven shots with five on target, achieving an expected goals tally of 1.64 while recording 99 attacks to Alaves's ninety-three. Discipline was closely matched across the ninety minutes, with Alaves committing fourteen fouls and receiving one yellow card, compared to Osasuna's thirteen fouls and two yellow cards, alongside four corners for the hosts and one for the visitors.
The hosts opened the scoring in the twenty-seventh minute when Lucas Boyé struck with his right foot, before Mariano Díaz added a second with another right-footed shot in the thirty-sixth minute to establish a two-goal half-time lead. Ante Budimir pulled a goal back for Osasuna with a header immediately after the restart, but Lucas Boyé restored Alaves's two-goal cushion with his second right-footed effort in the fifty-first minute. Following a yellow card for Osasuna's Abel Bretones and one for Alaves's Abde Rebbach, Budimir scored from the penalty spot in the sixty-fourth minute to make it three-two. Lucas Boyé completed his hat-trick with a header in the sixty-eighth minute, and Pablo Ibáñez rounded off the scoring with a header in the ninetieth minute following multiple second-half substitutions.
