Alavés beat Elche and achieves its second consecutive victory

Alavés beat Elche (1-0) this Wednesday in Mendizorroza the match corresponding to the 11th journey of LaLiga Santander. The albiazul set sealed a important triumph against a dietitian rival in the fight for permanence, linked his second win in a row and take a breath with 9 points in your locker.

The first chance of the match came in the 10th minute, but Joselu shot wide after receiving a good pass from Pere Pons. The first half had a high rhythm, although clear scoring chances were lacking. Elche’s response did not come until minute 35, when Lucas Boyé received a ball in the area, performed a good maneuver and Pacheco avoided the goal of the visiting team with a good save. Three minutes later, Alavés had a very clear opportunity to get ahead on the scoreboard, but Kiko Casilla avoided the local team’s goal after clearing a shot from Ximo Navarro at point-blank range, and in the rebound, Pere Pons’ shot went wide after brush the post. The break was reached without goals.

The second half could not have started better for Alavés: Casilla avoided Joselu’s goal after deflecting a good shot from the local striker to a corner, but in that corner kick Loum scored 1-0 after pushing the ball into the net at the second post after Laguardia extended the ball backwards.

After conceding the goal, Elche jumped in, but it was difficult for them to generate scoring chances against an Alavés who remained solid in defensive tasks. In addition, the team led by Javier Calleja was able to score the second goal after a good counterattack by the Vitoria team culminated by Joselu that ended in the hands of Casilla.

In the 80th minute of the match Elche scored the tying goal, but the referee annulled the visiting team’s goal because Guido Carrillo was in an offside position when he made the auction. Three minutes later, Pacheco left the field injured and was replaced by Sivera.

In the final stretch, Alavés endured Elche’s attack attempts without excessive problems, and won the three points.

Datasheet:

1 – Alaves: Pacheco (Sivera, min.84); Ximo (Martín, min.60), Laguardia, Lejeune, Duarte; Pina (Moya, min.60), Loum, Pons (Manu García, min.74), Pellistri (Édgar, min.74), Rioja; and Joselu.

0- Elche: Kiko Casilla; Palacios, Roco, Bigas, Mojica; Mascarell, Raúl Guti, Fidel (Pastore, min.64), Morente (Pere Milla, min.74); Lucas Pérez (Benedetto, min.64) and Lucas Boyé (Carrillo, min.74).

Goal: 1-0, min. 47: Loom.

Referee: Gil Manzano (Extremadura Committee). He showed an allocal yellow card Ximo Navarro (min.18) and the visitor Roco (min. 42).