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#4 Gianni de Biasi will love this Deportivo Alaves side
Manu Garcia got Alaves' first goal last season and repeated the feat this time around as well, although the circumstances in which the club finds itself is a bit more torrid. Luis Zubeldia, the youngest manager in Spain, was unceremoniously sacked after just 5 games, as Alaves managed zero points and no goals in that time.
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Gianni de Biasi has been appointed by Alaves, and tellingly, he is a manager who specializes in ensuring his sides do not go down. What the Italian veteran witnessed tonight will please him greatly - players of Manu Garcia's ilk - experienced, hard-workers full of running - is what he loves the most and Alaves may salvage more than just survival this season.
The hosts may still have no points on the board, but this performance against the might of Real Madrid is the perfect platform around which to build a base, as Rodrigo Ely and Guillermo Maripan's last ditch defending was perfectly matched by the endeavour up front. An inch to the right and Pedraza's shot would have earned a deserved point for Alaves - keep at it and the margins will eventually swing their way.
