Football tips: Girona vs Celta de Vigo - predictions and statistics

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Fri 27.Oct
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadi Municipal de Montilivi (14286 seats)

A win for the hosts is anticipated from this fixture if the league table is a way to look into the future. The Girona club members are hoping that the gulf between 2nd and Celta de Vigo's 18th place in the table will show on the ground.

Insights:
  • Girona have the most scored goals (24) in La Liga
  • Girona have scored more than double the goals of Celta de Vigo.

It's quite the trip for Celta de Vigo when visiting Girona as the cities are 1200 kilometers apart.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Girona form and stats

Girona have collected 12 points from their La Liga home games so far after 4-0-1.

The Girona supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Almeria and win 5-2. The game against Almeria had lots of late drama as Girona came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured the victory through Stuani's goal in the 85th minute. García (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.94/10. García signed up for two assists, hit four key passes and had 76 successful passes (of 86 total).

In the game before, an away victory match versus Cadiz with a 1-0 scoreline.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Girona's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 5 games, won 4 matches, drawn 1 and lost 0.

Goals are plentiful at Estadi Municipal de Montilivi in the league this season as Girona has scored 14 goals here in 5 home games. Girona have conceded 8 from these games.

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Celta de Vigo form and stats

The visitors are W1-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the La Liga. Celta seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Home advantage was not enough for Celta de Vigo in their previous game as they lost hosting Atletico Madrid, 0-3. Midfielder Mingueza was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.32. Mingueza hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 45 successful passes (of 56 total).

A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Getafe.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Celta de Vigo playing away, we found 7 games. Results were 2 away wins, 2 draws and 3 home wins.

The travelling fans enjoy Celta's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - three - four (Girona wins - draws - Celta de Vigo wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

GironaA. Dovbyk
A. Dovbyk
5 goals
GironaC. Stuani Curbelo
C. Stuani Curbelo
3 goals
GironaS. Moreira de Oliveira
S. Moreira de Oliveira
3 goals

Girona missing players

Celta de Vigo missing players

Girona Celta de Vigo
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 2 4 10
8 4 2 Won W 0 1 1
1 0 0 Drew D 1 1 3
1 1 0 Lost L 1 2 6
24 14 10 Scored S 3 7 10
13 8 5 Conceded C 4 8 18
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
70% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 75% 50%
30% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 50% 30%
30% 40% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 50% 20%
60% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 60%
30% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
10% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 40%
 
4.5 4.4 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5 6.2
4.6 4.4 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.2 4.3
2.3 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
13.7 14.6 21 Shots (avg) S ( 15 13.8 14.5
5.4 6.6 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 6 4.7
44% 42% 56% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 29% 21%
 
12.7 11.4 12 Shots against (avg) S A 13 14.5 12.2
4 4.8 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.5 5
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • All of Celta de Vigo's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Celta de Vigo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Celta de Vigo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Celta de Vigo have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Celta de Vigo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Celta de Vigo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Girona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Girona have scored more than double the goals of Celta de Vigo.
  • Girona have the most scored goals (24) in La Liga
  • Girona have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in La Liga
  • Girona haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Real Madrid 10 8 1 1 21 7 4 4 0 0 10 2 6 4 1 1 11 5 14 25
2 Girona 10 8 1 1 24 13 5 4 0 1 14 8 5 4 1 0 10 5 11 25
3 FC Barcelona 10 7 3 0 22 10 5 5 0 0 12 2 5 2 3 0 10 8 12 24
4 Atletico Madrid 9 7 1 1 23 8 4 4 0 0 11 5 5 3 1 1 12 3 15 22
5 Real Sociedad 10 5 3 2 18 12 6 4 2 0 15 8 4 1 1 2 3 4 6 18
6 Athletic Club 10 5 2 3 16 10 5 3 1 1 12 6 5 2 1 2 4 4 6 17
7 Rayo Vallecano 10 4 4 2 12 13 4 1 2 1 5 10 6 3 2 1 7 3 -1 16
8 Real Betis 10 3 5 2 12 14 4 2 2 0 5 1 6 1 3 2 7 13 -2 14
9 Osasuna 10 4 1 5 11 14 5 1 1 3 3 6 5 3 0 2 8 8 -3 13
10 Valencia 9 3 2 4 10 11 4 2 0 2 5 3 5 1 2 2 5 8 -1 11
11 Getafe 10 2 5 3 13 16 5 2 3 0 5 3 5 0 2 3 8 13 -3 11
12 Las Palmas 10 3 2 5 6 9 5 2 2 1 4 3 5 1 0 4 2 6 -3 11
13 Sevilla 9 2 3 4 14 13 6 2 2 2 11 8 3 0 1 2 3 5 1 9
14 Villarreal 10 2 3 5 12 16 6 1 1 4 9 12 4 1 2 1 3 4 -4 9
15 Cadiz 9 2 3 4 8 12 5 2 2 1 5 3 4 0 1 3 3 9 -4 9
16 Deportivo Alaves 10 2 3 5 8 14 5 2 1 2 6 8 5 0 2 3 2 6 -6 9
17 Mallorca 10 1 5 4 12 16 4 0 3 1 3 4 6 1 2 3 9 12 -4 8
18 Celta de Vigo 10 1 3 6 10 18 6 0 2 4 3 10 4 1 1 2 7 8 -8 6
19 Granada 10 1 3 6 15 25 5 1 2 2 8 11 5 0 1 4 7 14 -10 6
20 Almeria 10 0 3 7 13 29 5 0 2 3 8 13 5 0 1 4 5 16 -16 3

Celta de Vigo:

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