Alaves vs Valencia

Match summary

Valencia beat Alaves 1-0 on the road. It was goalless at half-time.

Luis Rioja put Valencia ahead in the 78th minute, set up by Javier Guerra.

Alaves can feel hard done by, creating 1.32 expected goals (xG) from 15 shots to Valencia's 0.84 from 10.

Alaves hosted Valencia in La Liga Matchday 6, registering more territory and shot volume despite finishing with a lower expected goals figure than their opponents. Alaves accumulated fifteen shots to Valencia's ten, while also dominating attacks at one hundred and seven to eighty-two and dangerous attacks at sixty to twenty-nine. Alaves managed forty-three percent possession compared to Valencia's fifty-seven percent, and recorded three shots on target alongside four blocked efforts. Valencia manufactured three shots on target and five blocked attempts from their seventy-four passes, finishing the fixture with a superior expected goals metric of nought point eighty-four against the home side's one point thirty-two, while disciplinary counts reached one yellow card for Alaves and four for Valencia.

The first half remained goalless after an early VAR review in the eighteenth minute and simultaneous yellow cards for argument issued to Antonio Blanco of Alaves and Javi Guerra of Valencia in the twenty-first minute, followed by a yellow card for a foul given to Pepelu of Valencia in added time. The deadlock broke in the second half when Luis Rioja scored with a right-footed shot for Valencia in the seventy-seventh minute, recording the match's highest expected goals chance at nought point forty-one. Further cautions were shown to Aaron Ndive Mayol de la Cueva and Guido Rodríguez of Valencia, before the match concluded with a final score of Alaves zero and Valencia one.