Levante
- Luis Castro has done a decent job of steadying Levante since he took charge in December 2025 and the club has now established some defensive solidity as a platform for their play.
- His philosophy has been to make Levante a possession-based team and use a double-pivot system to protect the defense and use the ball as a defensive asset.
- Levante have lost their last four LaLiga matches, but they are at home and facing a side above them in the table.
- They have averaged just 0.92 goals per home game in LaLiga 2025-2026, while conceding 1.92 per game.
Alaves
- Alaves are only 14th in the division, but with 27 points from 25 matches, are five places and nine points above Levante in the standings.
- Eduardo Coudet has done an excellent job since taking charge in December 2024 to transform the character of the side into a high-energy, front-foot outfit that presses aggressively and plays on the front foot.
- They have won only two of their 12 LaLiga road matches this season (D2, L8), but are unbeaten in two away from home (W1, D1) and should be confident of taking something away from this game.
Head-to-Head
- Both clubs have low scoring averages in LaLiga 2025-2026 and have been involved in cagey games recently.
- Levante have averaged 1.0 goals in their last five head-to-head meetings with Alaves at this venue while Depor have managed 0.5 in the same number of trips to the Ciutat de Valencia.
Key Players
- Lucas Boye has come good in recent weeks, scoring three of Alaves’s last seven LaLiga goals, and provides the sort of target-man presence that other forward players do not.
- Antonio Martinez remains their most reliable source of goals with five in 23 appearances and remains a consistent threat from any position.
- Levante’s Etta Eyong has six in 23 games, the most of any of his teammates, and provides a similar finisher’s touch to the Levante attacks, especially from set-pieces and crosses.
Betting Insights
- Levante are 2.62 favourites for a home win, while Alaves are 2.78 with the draw coming in at 3.05.
- Under 2.5 goals is priced at 1.57, with Levante's home matches averaging 2.84 goals and Alaves' away matches averaging 2.00.
Prediction
- Levante’s recent results have been so poor they have to be passed on and we’ll take the slight line-busting bet on Alaves to secure a draw with their new-found spirit to scrape into the win column.
- Another tight, tense game is expected in a relegation showdown where the momentum could swing in favour of whichever side controls the transitions better.
