Alaves' Joselu (right) celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Alaves at Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Nov 28, 2020. (BERNAT ARMANGUE / AP)

MADRID - Real Madrid's irregular season continued on a dreadful night for Zinedine Zidane's side, who not only lost 2-1 at home to Deportivo Alaves, but also saw Eden Hazard limp out of the game in the first half due to yet another injury.

Alaves took the lead in just the second minute thanks to a penalty by Lucas Perez after Nacho Fernandez was penalized for hand ball following a corner.

The reigning champions have now taken just one point in the last three games

Madrid got back into the game with Mariano Diaz posing as a constant threat, while Alaves keeper Fernando Pacheco made an important save from a shot by Toni Kroos. However, it was the visitors who doubled their lead early in the second half when Joselu took advantage of a disastrous pass from Thibaut Courtois to slip the ball into the back of the net.

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Alaves then played on the break and Courtois partly redeemed himself with a fine save from Lucas, while Joselu fired over after another counterattack.

Casemiro gave Real Madrid hope from close range in the 85th minute and Isco almost saved a point when his 95th minute shot hit the bar, but it was not to be Madrid's night.

The reigning champions have now taken just one point in the last three games.

Real Madrid's Belgian forward Eden Hazard leaves the pitch during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Deportivo Alaves at the Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Madrid, Spain, on Nov 28, 2020. (PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP)

Meanwhile, Tony Lato's own goal into 11 minutes of the game gifted Atletico Madrid a 1-0 win away to Valencia.

Atletico had the best of the game, but without Luis Suarez due to coronavirus and Diego Costa with a muscle injury, it had looked as if they would fail to break down their rivals until Lato's moment of bad luck took them level with Real Sociedad at the top of the table.

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Atletico Madrid's French midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia (center, right) celebrates with Atletico Madrid's Spanish midfielder Koke (center, left) at the end of the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Valencia and Atletico Madrid at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia on Nov 28, 2020. (JOSE JORDAN / AFP)

Elsewhere, Sevilla also enjoyed a narrow 1-0 win after Youssef En-Nesyri's close range 83rd minute goal decided a tight game away to Huesca.

Sevilla had most of the ball possesion during the game and most of the chances, but Huesca, still without a win all season, had kept them at bay until the Moroccan's fourth league goal of the campaign decided the game and ended a week which also saw Sevilla qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League.

Saturday kicked off with Elche and Cadiz drawing a game between two sides promoted at the end of last season 1-1.

Lucas Boye's low shot from outside of the area put Elche ahead after 37 minutes, but he let his side with 10 men after being sent off for using an elbow 10 minutes later and Alvaro Gimenez's 54th minute header saw each team take a point.

The round of matches kicked off on Friday with Valladolid and Levante also drawing 1-1 - a result that keeps Levante in the bottom three.