In four days Alaves will celebrate its 100th anniversary. If last season the Basques won 16th place and by some miracle retained their registration in the elite championship, then in the new tournament the “glorious” managed to keep this position. The White-Blues have four victories and six peaceful outcomes, which brought 18 points, which is two points away from Elche in the relegation zone. After the victory over Eibar on December 23-rd (2:1), the Bean Busters shared the tournament points with Osasuna (1:1) and suffered two fiascoes with Atletico (1:2) and Cadiz (1:3). In the King’s Cup Abelardo’s charges started with a victory over Rincon (2:0) and Deportivo (1:0), but in the 1/16 finals they were knocked out by Almeria (0:5). Today Rodriguez, who has a red card and Eli, who is in the infirmary with a knee injury, will not be able to enter the field.
Borussia quite coped with the fight on two fronts up to a certain point, successfully solving the problem of reaching the playoffs in the Champions League and imposing the fight between Bayern and company in the battle for the title. The crisis caught the Bumblebees just after the end of the group stage of the European Cup – several weak matches, the main of which was the match with Stuttgart (1:5), which cost Lucien Favre the job. The management of the team was entrusted to Edin Terzich, who, in general, is coping with his task. By the 17th round, Borussia is on the fourth line in the table with 29 points in the asset, being behind the first Bavaria by seven points. The distance is quite significant, but it is unlikely that even now it can exclude the bumblebees from the number of contenders for the title. In the last round Borussia quite unexpectedly lost points in a duel with Mainz (1:1). Although they looked very powerful in the game and could easily arrange a defeat for the carnivalista, they lacked luck. More accurate soccer predictions can be obtained from the link provided.
