Only three points good enough for Barcelona in Celta de Vigo game

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Sun 16.May
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Camp Nou (98787 seats)

The home side Barcelona should be the favourites in this game, but Celta de Vigo have shown both skill and courage. Read more about the game!

Insights:
  • Barcelona have the most scored goals (83) in La Liga
  • Celta de Vigo have the most matches over the total-line (22) in La Liga

The visiting Celta de Vigo played their last game only four days ago, a La Liga match.

These teams have little in common geographically as Celta de Vigo have to travel 1100 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Celta is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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Barcelona form and stats

38 points is a decent return from 18 La Liga games here at Camp Nou for Barcelona. The data says 11 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses.

Barcelona travelled for their previous game, a trip to Levante that ended 3-3. Midfield player Ousmane Dembélé got a match rating of 8.41 in that game, the max score being 10. Dembélé scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and had 43 successful passes (of 46 total). Opportunity lost for Barcelona in the Levante match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Before that, Barcelona drew at home versus Atlético Madrid.

The Barcelona manager R. Koeman has got the team scoring with 43 from 18 home games in the league. Barcelona have conceded 18 in these home matches.

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Celta de Vigo form and stats

4 wins, 8 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of Celta de Vigo playing as the away team in the La Liga this season. The fact that Celta have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Celta de Vigo had fun at their own home (Camp Nou) last time out, beating Getafe 1-0. Nolito scored. Iván Villar was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.01. The agile goalkeeper Villar stopped the opponent with four saves.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Villarreal with the score of 4-2.

With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any positive result for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Celta as the away team, we found three results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, one draw and two defeats. The outsiders lost two of these games by at least two goals.

The visiting Celta have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 23 goals from 18 games. As opposed to that, Celta have seen the ball go into their own net 26 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Celta de Vigo - Barcelona 0-3 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Barcelona victories, four draws and one Celta de Vigo win. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BarcelonaL. Messi
L. Messi
29 goals
Celta de VigoI. Aspas Juncal
I. Aspas Juncal
13 goals
BarcelonaA. Griezmann
A. Griezmann
12 goals

Barcelona missing players

Celta de Vigo missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Barcelona Celta de Vigo
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
36 18 6 Played P 5 18 36
23 11 4 Won W 0 4 13
7 5 1 Drew D 1 8 11
6 2 1 Lost L 4 6 12
83 43 13 Scored S 6 23 51
36 18 4 Conceded C 12 26 53
97% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 89%
83% 83% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 86%
64% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 39% 50%
39% 44% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 28% 33%
25% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 17% 14%
58% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 80% 61% 58%
36% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 25%
8% 6% 0% Failed to Score F T 20% 33% 28%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.4 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 3 2.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
14.8 15.3 17.2 Shots (avg) S ( 8.6 7.9 9.2
5.9 6.4 6.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 3.1 3.5
39% 37% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 42% 40%
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • Barcelona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Barcelona have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Barcelona have the most scored goals (43) at home in La Liga
  • Barcelona have the most scored goals (83) in La Liga
  • Barcelona have the most scored goals in the first half (40) in La Liga
  • Barcelona have the most scored goals in the second half (43) in La Liga
  • Barcelona have the the best goal difference (+47) in La Liga
  • Celta de Vigo have the most matches over the total-line (22) in La Liga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlético Madrid 36 24 8 4 63 23 18 14 3 1 39 10 18 10 5 3 24 13 40 80
2 Barcelona 36 23 7 6 83 36 18 11 5 2 43 18 18 12 2 4 40 18 47 76
3 Real Madrid 35 22 9 4 60 26 18 12 3 3 31 12 17 10 6 1 29 14 34 75
4 Sevilla 36 23 5 8 52 29 18 13 1 4 26 11 18 10 4 4 26 18 23 74
5 Real Sociedad 36 15 11 10 54 37 18 8 6 4 30 20 18 7 5 6 24 17 17 56
6 Real Betis 35 15 9 11 45 47 18 9 5 4 26 21 17 6 4 7 19 26 -2 54
7 Villarreal 35 13 13 9 53 42 18 7 6 5 25 23 17 6 7 4 28 19 11 52
8 Celta de Vigo 36 13 11 12 51 53 18 9 3 6 28 27 18 4 8 6 23 26 -2 50
9 Athletic Club 36 11 13 12 46 39 18 8 6 4 29 18 18 3 7 8 17 21 7 46
10 Granada 35 13 6 16 44 57 17 9 3 5 24 21 18 4 3 11 20 36 -13 45
11 Osasuna 36 11 11 14 36 45 18 7 5 6 21 22 18 4 6 8 15 23 -9 44
12 Cadiz 36 11 10 15 33 53 18 5 5 8 16 27 18 6 5 7 17 26 -20 43
13 Levante 36 9 13 14 43 53 18 5 8 5 25 28 18 4 5 9 18 25 -10 40
14 Valencia 36 9 12 15 46 52 18 7 7 4 30 22 18 2 5 11 16 30 -6 39
15 Deportivo Alaves 36 8 11 17 32 54 18 5 6 7 17 23 18 3 5 10 15 31 -22 35
16 Getafe 36 8 10 18 26 42 18 5 6 7 13 12 18 3 4 11 13 30 -16 34
17 Huesca 36 7 12 17 34 52 18 5 6 7 17 21 18 2 6 10 17 31 -18 33
18 Real Valladolid 35 5 16 14 32 49 17 3 7 7 18 26 18 2 9 7 14 23 -17 31
19 Elche 36 6 12 18 29 54 18 4 8 6 16 23 18 2 4 12 13 31 -25 30
20 Eibar 35 6 11 18 27 46 17 2 6 9 11 19 18 4 5 9 16 27 -19 29

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Celta de Vigo:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlético Madrid 36 24 8 4 63 23 18 14 3 1 39 10 18 10 5 3 24 13 40 80
2 Barcelona 36 23 7 6 83 36 18 11 5 2 43 18 18 12 2 4 40 18 47 76
3 Real Madrid 35 22 9 4 60 26 18 12 3 3 31 12 17 10 6 1 29 14 34 75
4 Sevilla 36 23 5 8 52 29 18 13 1 4 26 11 18 10 4 4 26 18 23 74
5 Real Sociedad 36 15 11 10 54 37 18 8 6 4 30 20 18 7 5 6 24 17 17 56
6 Real Betis 35 15 9 11 45 47 18 9 5 4 26 21 17 6 4 7 19 26 -2 54
7 Villarreal 35 13 13 9 53 42 18 7 6 5 25 23 17 6 7 4 28 19 11 52
8 Celta de Vigo 36 13 11 12 51 53 18 9 3 6 28 27 18 4 8 6 23 26 -2 50
9 Athletic Club 36 11 13 12 46 39 18 8 6 4 29 18 18 3 7 8 17 21 7 46
10 Granada 35 13 6 16 44 57 17 9 3 5 24 21 18 4 3 11 20 36 -13 45
11 Osasuna 36 11 11 14 36 45 18 7 5 6 21 22 18 4 6 8 15 23 -9 44
12 Cadiz 36 11 10 15 33 53 18 5 5 8 16 27 18 6 5 7 17 26 -20 43
13 Levante 36 9 13 14 43 53 18 5 8 5 25 28 18 4 5 9 18 25 -10 40
14 Valencia 36 9 12 15 46 52 18 7 7 4 30 22 18 2 5 11 16 30 -6 39
15 Deportivo Alaves 36 8 11 17 32 54 18 5 6 7 17 23 18 3 5 10 15 31 -22 35
16 Getafe 36 8 10 18 26 42 18 5 6 7 13 12 18 3 4 11 13 30 -16 34
17 Huesca 36 7 12 17 34 52 18 5 6 7 17 21 18 2 6 10 17 31 -18 33
18 Real Valladolid 35 5 16 14 32 49 17 3 7 7 18 26 18 2 9 7 14 23 -17 31
19 Elche 36 6 12 18 29 54 18 4 8 6 16 23 18 2 4 12 13 31 -25 30
20 Eibar 35 6 11 18 27 46 17 2 6 9 11 19 18 4 5 9 16 27 -19 29

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