Spain - LaLigaStarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between Celta Vigo and Athletic Bilbao, taking place on Sunday, 29 January 2023, at The Estadio Abanca-Balaídos in Vigo.
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Celta Vigo, Recent FormThe Celta Vigo players will be feeling somewhat disenchanted with their inability to pick up any points from their away fixture against Mallorca recently, that ended in a 1-0 defeat. They came away from that fixture with 58% of the possession and clocked up 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. By comparison, Mallorca managed 8 attempts on goal, with 3 on target.
Manager Carlos Carvalhal will be reasonably pleased with his team's attacking displays in recent matches, with them having managed to score 4 goals in their last 6 games, but he will have work to do defensively after they conceded 5 goals in those games and dropped some valuable points along the way. The defensive quality of his current squad will be troubling him of late, his defence having only notched up 1 clean sheet from their last 6 home games.
They've drawn their last 2 league games at The Estadio Abanca-Balaídos, but their search for a home win in the league extends even further having gone 5 consecutive games without grabbing all 3 points.
Athletic Bilbao, Recent FormThere will be a feeling of disappointment amongst the Athletic Bilbao players having failed to take any points away from their recent 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Real Madrid. They achieved 50% possession in that match and had 18 strikes at goal, with 3 hitting the target, up against Real Madrid's tally of 10 efforts at goal, 4 of which were on target.
While they have been reasonably effective at circumventing their opponents defence, scoring 5 in their last 6 games, it's largely been tit for tat with their own defence proving to be equally ineffectual, conceding 7, and leading to valuable points being dropped. Scoring goals away from home is something they have consistently achieved of late, having notched up goals in 4 of their last 6 matches on their travels. They will need to tighten up at the back, having failed to keep a clean sheet in all but 1 of their last 6 away games.
Their recent poor run of form away from home has left them without an away win in 6 games.
With 3 goals from the last 6 away outings in the league, Gorka Guruzeta has given the travelling Athletic Bilbao support something to shout about on the road.
In the last league encounter between these sides, it was Athletic Bilbao who ended up empty-handed, losing 0-2 to Celta Vigo.
Los Leones have managed to keep a clean sheet against Celta in each of their previous 2 visits to The Estadio Abanca-Balaídos. In their past 5 meetings, Os Celestes' defence has been pretty stingy, only conceding 2 goals, so Athletic will have to take their chances when they come. The Athletic defence tends to hold pretty firm when they visit Os Celestes in the league, with Athletic conceding just 1 goal in their last 3 meetings.
Celta player Iago Aspas will be feeling confident about recording goals against Athletic ahead of this encounter, with a scoring record of 3 goals from their last 5 meetings.
With no real injury worries, Celta manager Carlos Carvalhal will be happy to have his full squad available for selection.
There is only really one injury concern for the Athletic manager Ernesto Valverde ahead of this clash, with Iñigo Martínez (Physical discomfort) missing out, which gives Valverde a strong squad to pick his starting eleven from.
Celta Vigo Playing at home | Athletic Bilbao Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | Goals scored | 1.6 |
| 1.4 | Goals conceded | 1.6 |
| 42' | Time first goal scored | 38' |
| 34' | Time first goal conceded | 32' |
| 2.3 | Yellow cards | 1.8 |
| 0.1 | Red cards | 0.3 |
| 4.1 | Subs used | 4.8 |
| 3-0 | Biggest victory | 4-0 |
| 4-1 | Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
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