National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Espanyol or Celta de Vigo that keep their silverware dream alive.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Espanyol form and stats
Last season, Espanyol's Copa Del Rey journey ended in the round of 16.The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the La Liga this season. Espanyol have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 4 losses from their games here at RCDE Stadium.
The home team returns to RCDE Stadium after drawing with Barcelona on their last time out; the game ended 1-1. The forward Joselu outdid all teammates in that game and received a match rating of 7.82 out of 10. Joselu scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Before that one, a fine away win at Atletico Paso. A Copa Del Rey match. This is expected to be a close game, with Espanyol perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Espanyol as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Espanyol has won 1 of these, drawn 1 and lost 2.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Girona are coming to town in four days.
Espanyol has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.
Celta de Vigo form and stats
They also participated in Copa Del Rey last season. This ended in the round of 32.Celta de Vigo have only collected 4 points from their away games in the La Liga, after 1-1-5 (7 played).
Celta de Vigo's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Sevilla that finished 1-1. Aspas, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.6. Aspas served one assist and hit two key passes.
Ahead of that, the Copa Del Rey victory away at Gernika. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Celta de Vigo in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Celta, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Celta de Vigo manager da Silva as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Elche.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Celta as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. Celta de Vigo have conceded 15 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the previous ten meetings): Espanyol won two games, seven matches ended in a draw and Celta de Vigo got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Sanmartín Mato 8 goals |   I. Aspas Juncal 7 goals |
Espanyol missing players
Celta de Vigo missing players
| Espanyol | Celta de Vigo | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 27 | 13 | Scored | S | 19 | 36 | ||
| 31 | 16 | Conceded | C | 25 | 38 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 16% | ||
| 4.6 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 4.9 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.4 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 11.2 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.3 | 13.1 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 29% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 30% | ||
| 11.2 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.3 | 9.4 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Barcelona | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 28 | 38 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 21 | 38 |
| 3 | Real Sociedad | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 29 |
| 4 | Atletico Madrid | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 27 |
| 5 | Athletic Club | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 25 |
| 6 | Real Betis | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 25 |
| 7 | Villarreal | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| 8 | Rayo Vallecano | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 23 |
| 9 | Osasuna | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| 10 | Valencia | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 19 |
| 11 | Mallorca | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -2 | 19 |
| 12 | Girona | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -2 | 17 |
| 13 | Almeria | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 15 | -6 | 17 |
| 14 | Getafe | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 17 |
| 15 | Real Valladolid | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -10 | 17 |
| 16 | Espanyol | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 10 | -6 | 13 |
| 17 | Celta de Vigo | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 15 | -12 | 13 |
| 18 | Sevilla | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 19 | Cadiz | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -17 | 12 |
| 20 | Elche | 15 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 20 | -23 | 4 |
