📊 Form Guide

Espanyol

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Espanyol will be looking for an improved result here following the 4-1 La Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Girona FC.

In that game, Espanyol managed 24% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 1 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Espanyol was Javi Puado (55'). On the other side, Girona had 12 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Bryan Gil (4'), Bojan Miovski (16', 21') and Ladislav Krejčí (27') scored for Girona FC.

Fixtures involving Espanyol have usually been entertaining affairs of late with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games, a total of 23 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 9 of those accredited to Espanyol.

Coming into this fixture, Espanyol have not emerged victorious against Celta Vigo in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Celta Vigo

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In their previous fixture, Celta Vigo drew 2-2 in the La Liga tie with Barcelona.

In that match, Celta Vigo had 41% possession and 15 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For Celta Vigo, the goals were scored by Alfon González (84') and Hugo Álvarez (86'). For their opponents, Barcelona had 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. Raphinha (15') and Robert Lewandowski (61') scored for Barcelona.

Looking at their form, and Celta Vigo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in total. Defensively, Celta Vigo have clearly had some problems. Even so, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern might be maintained here in this match.

Going into this encounter, Celta Vigo haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 19/07/2020, there has been little between the sides with Espanyol winning 2 of those games, Celta Vigo 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 for Periquitos and 9 created by Os Celestes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league encounter between these sides was La Liga match day 26 on 18/03/2023 when it ended Espanyol 1-3 Celta Vigo.

On that day, Espanyol managed 56% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was José Gragera (86').

Celta Vigo had 8 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Gabri Veiga (26'), Iago Aspas (45') and Carles Pérez (82') scored.

The match was refereed by Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

🗞️ Team News: Espanyol

We are thinking that Periquitos may well opt for a 4-4-2 formation this time, utilising Joan Garcia, Omar El Hilali, Marash Kumbulla, Leandro Cabrera, Brian Olivan, Alvaro Tejero, Pol Lozano, Alex Kral, Jofre Carreras, Alejo Veliz and Javier Puado.

📋 Team News: Celta Vigo

We believe Os Celestes seem most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 lineup, settling for Vicente Guaita, Javi Rodriguez, Carl Starfelt, Marcos Alonso, Hugo Alvarez, Oscar Mingueza, Fran Beltran, Ilaix Moriba, Iago Aspas, Jonathan Bamba and Borja Iglesias.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that Espanyol could find themselves up against it to break down this Celta Vigo team who we think might score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a highly competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Celta Vigo at the conclusion of the game.

A close call.

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Renata Leite, 17:02 30/11/2024