La Liga: High-level versus second-rate, at least based on the league table. Rayo Vallecano - Celta de Vigo. Home victory or a shock result?
- Rayo Vallecano have the most points (15) at home in La Liga
- Celta de Vigo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a La Liga game only four days ago.
Rayo Vallecano form and stats
5-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the La Liga numbers at home for Rayo Vallecano, who have the most points (15) at home in La Liga, so far this season. Ever since the Girona game Vallecano has been unbeatable here at Estadio de Vallecas producing five straight wins.
The Vallecano supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Barcelona in La Liga and win 1-0. Midfield player Óscar Trejo got a match rating of 8.0 in that game, the max score being 10. Trejo served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 20 successful passes (of 24 total).
Prior to that, an away loss at Real Betis.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Rayo Vallecano have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won three, drawn two and lost three.
Rayo Vallecano are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estadio de Vallecas in their league games, having scored an impressive 13 goals in 5 matches. As for guarding their own goal, Vallecano have only let in 2 goals at home.
Celta de Vigo form and stats
2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Celta de Vigo playing as the away team in the La Liga this season.
Celta de Vigo's previous game was their home loss versus Real Sociedad (0-2). Denis Suárez got a match rating of 7.92 in that game, top player of the team. Suárez hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 44 successful passes (of 53 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Getafe at their stadium, the result 3-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Celta de Vigo in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Celta, four draws and five defeats.
Celta have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 7 goals have been scored. 6 goals have been conceded by Celta in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Rayo Vallecano seven wins, one draw and Celta de Vigo two victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Á. García Rivera 4 goals |  R. García Zárate 4 goals |   S. Mina Lorenzo 4 goals |
Rayo Vallecano missing players
Celta de Vigo missing players
| Rayo Vallecano | Celta de Vigo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 4 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 18 | 13 | 12 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 10 |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 91% |
| 73% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 55% |
| 64% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 36% |
| 27% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 20% | 9% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 20% | 9% |
| 45% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 20% | 27% |
| 27% | 60% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 60% | 36% |
| 27% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 45% |
| 3.6 | 4.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4 | 4.6 |
| 4 | 4.2 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.8 | 13.6 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 8.6 | 11 |
| 3.8 | 5.2 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| 43% | 50% | 55% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 39% | 26% |
- Celta de Vigo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Rayo Vallecano have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Rayo Vallecano have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Rayo Vallecano have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Rayo Vallecano have the most points (15) at home in La Liga
- Rayo Vallecano have the the best goal difference (+11) at home in La Liga
- Rayo Vallecano have won all their matches at home so far.
- Rayo Vallecano have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Rayo Vallecano 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 Sociedad | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| 3 | Sevilla | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 4 | Real Betis | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 21 |
| 5 | Rayo Vallecano | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 19 |
| 6 | Atlético Madrid | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| 7 | Osasuna | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 19 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 |
| 9 | Barcelona | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| 10 | Espanyol | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
| 11 | Valencia | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -1 | 13 |
| 12 | Mallorca | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 13 |
| 13 | Villarreal | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 14 | Celta de Vigo | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -4 | 10 |
| 15 | Elche | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -5 | 10 |
| 16 | Deportivo Alaves | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -8 | 9 |
| 17 | Granada | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 8 |
| 18 | Cadiz | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 8 |
| 19 | Levante | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 6 |
| 20 | Getafe | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -13 | 3 |