- Team form: Alaves have taken 1 point from 1 game away from home in LaLiga 2026-2027, scoring 1 goal away.
- Home record: Racing are unbeaten at home in LaLiga 2026-2027 (W1, D1, L0), conceding 4 goals in 2 games.
- Recent form: Alaves are the more in-form side going into Saturday's game, having won 4 and drawn 1 of their last 5 matches.
Alaves are the sharper side in Saturday’s clash
Match odds and context
Deportivo Alaves will be the sharper team for this game, but it is still probably too early to put them as favourites to win at Estadio El Sardinero, where Racing Santander are slight home favourites at 2.46, Alaves 2.72 and the draw 3.4.
League position and style
El Glorioso have taken 7 points from their 3 games to sit in 5th place in the LaLiga 2026/2027 standings and already have top-half bite to them. Quique Sanchez Flores has been in charge since March 2026 and has honed the team into a compact 5-3-2 side thriving on transitions and wing-back thrust.
Attack strengths
Mariano Diaz has scored twice and assisted two more in 3 games, leading Alaves' LaLiga 2026/2027 attack, but the real power in the front two is coming from Lucas Boye, who has scored 3 of Alaves' last 5 goals in all competitions.
Racing's season and tactics
Racinguistas have had a mid-table start to their LaLiga 2026/2027 season with 4 points from 3 games. They are 10th, but still in the pack.
Jose Lopez has been in charge of the team since December 2022 and has created a relationist 4-2-3-1 that operates on quick one-and-two touch combinations and creates overloads to penetrate the opponent. Yassir Zabiri is the main spark on his right side of the attack, with 3 goals in 3 league games and 4 in Racing's last 6 overall.
Expect goals at both ends in Santander
This looks like a tight game that could explode into a high-event contest at any moment as Alaves and Racing have very contrasting styles and neither like to sit back.
- The head-to-head favors Alaves slightly, who won the last 3 meetings, although Racing are winless in their last 3 home games against El Glorioso.
- Racing's recent form (W2, D1, L2) is not quite as strong as Alaves' (W4, D1) so the form lines are nudging towards the visitors here, but with Racing at home, the value bet is on them to avoid defeat and both teams to score at 1.67.
- The last H2H meeting was 4 weeks ago, an 8-7 win away in the Friendly Club Matches 2026 and there is no telling how this pairing can turn chaotic.
