Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Celta de Vigo welcomes Deportivo Alavés

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Sun 20.December
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio de Balaídos (31800 seats)

With their 2 point advantage in the league table, Celta de Vigo fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Deportivo Alavés.

Insights:
  • Celta de Vigo has the most matches over the total-line (9) in La Liga
  • Deportivo Alavés have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Celta de Vigo and Deportivo Alavés.

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Celta de Vigo form and stats

3-0-3 (win-draw-lost) are the La Liga numbers at home for Celta de Vigo so far this season. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Celta after consecutive victories at their own ground.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ruben Blanco Veiga not having conceded a league goal in 245 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Celta, who won 5-0 against Llanera. Ahead of that match, Celta de Vigo won a home game hosting Cádiz (4-0).

As indicated by the result mentioned above, Celta played a great game against Llanera and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Celta matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, one draw and three defeats (from seven games).

There will be little rest for Celta after this match as they are travelling to Getafe for a La Liga game in only three days.

A decent goal production from Celta in their home games so far, with 10 goals from 6 league matches. Celta have conceded 11 from these games.

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Deportivo Alavés form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their La Liga travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Joselu was the last player to score for the away team. Alavés haven't scored a league goal in the last 221 minutes.

Alavés play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Rincon. It was a La Liga defeat before that one as the away game against Huesca wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Alavés when being an outsider away as they are today, we find six matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing one and winning three games.

A new game in only three days for Deportivo Alavés, the La Liga home match versus SD Eibar. Busy days.

The visiting Alavés have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 7 goals from 6 games. As opposed to that, Deportivo Alavés have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Celta-Deportivo Alavés H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Celta de Vigo three wins, Deportivo Alavés five wins, two draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Celta de VigoI. Aspas Juncal
I. Aspas Juncal
7 goals
CeltaM. Agudo Durán
M. Agudo Durán
3 goals
Deportivo AlavésL. Pérez Martínez
L. Pérez Martínez
3 goals

Celta de Vigo missing players

Deportivo Alavés missing players

Celta de Vigo Deportivo Alavés
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 0 Played P 1 6 13
4 3 0 Won W 0 2 3
4 0 0 Drew D 0 1 5
5 3 0 Lost L 1 3 5
17 10 0 Scored S 1 7 11
20 11 0 Conceded C 2 8 14
92% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 85%
92% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 62%
46% 83% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 31%
31% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 15%
15% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
54% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 46%
23% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 31%
31% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 38%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.2 3.3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2.5
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
9.6 11.8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 4 7.3 7.8
3.5 4.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.5 2.2
37% 40% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 47% 38%
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • All of Celta de Vigo's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Celta de Vigo has the most matches over the total-line (9) in La Liga
  • Celta de Vigo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Celta de Vigo haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Deportivo Alavés have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Deportivo Alavés haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atletico Madrid 11 8 2 1 21 4 6 5 1 0 15 1 5 3 1 1 6 3 17 26
2 Real Sociedad 14 7 5 2 24 8 7 3 3 1 11 4 7 4 2 1 13 4 16 26
3 Real Madrid 13 8 2 3 22 13 6 4 0 2 11 5 7 4 2 1 11 8 9 26
4 Villarreal 13 5 7 1 16 12 7 4 3 0 11 5 6 1 4 1 5 7 4 22
5 Barcelona 12 6 2 4 23 12 7 5 1 1 18 7 5 1 1 3 5 5 11 20
6 Sevilla 11 6 1 4 13 9 5 3 0 2 6 4 6 3 1 2 7 5 4 19
7 Granada 12 5 3 4 15 20 6 3 2 1 10 8 6 2 1 3 5 12 -5 18
8 Cádiz 13 5 3 5 11 17 6 1 2 3 4 8 7 4 1 2 7 9 -6 18
9 Celta de Vigo 13 4 4 5 17 20 6 3 0 3 10 11 7 1 4 2 7 9 -3 16
10 Real Betis 13 5 1 7 15 24 6 2 1 3 8 10 7 3 0 4 7 14 -9 16
11 SD Eibar 13 3 6 4 9 10 7 0 4 3 1 5 6 3 2 1 8 5 -1 15
12 Valencia 13 3 5 5 19 19 7 2 3 2 13 11 6 1 2 3 6 8 0 14
13 Athletic Club 13 4 2 7 15 17 5 3 0 2 8 4 8 1 2 5 7 13 -2 14
14 Elche 11 3 5 3 9 11 6 1 3 2 4 7 5 2 2 1 5 4 -2 14
15 Deportivo Alavés 13 3 5 5 11 14 7 1 4 2 4 6 6 2 1 3 7 8 -3 14
16 Getafe 12 3 4 5 9 14 7 3 1 3 7 6 5 0 3 2 2 8 -5 13
17 Real Valladolid 13 3 4 6 14 20 7 2 3 2 9 10 6 1 1 4 5 10 -6 13
18 Levante 12 2 5 5 13 16 5 1 3 1 6 5 7 1 2 4 7 11 -3 11
19 Huesca 13 1 8 4 12 20 6 1 3 2 4 6 7 0 5 2 8 14 -8 11
20 Osasuna 12 3 2 7 10 18 6 2 1 3 6 9 6 1 1 4 4 9 -8 11

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La Liga is the top professional level of the Spanish football league system. Is is often referred to as the Primera División and is considered one of the absolute top leagues of Europe and the world. 20 teams play 380 fixtures from August to May to create a final league table.