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Athletic Club vs Celta Vigo

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium: San Mamés

Date: 10th November 2023

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

La Liga resumes this weekend as Athletic Bilbao welcome Celta Vigo to the Estadio San Mamés for Round 13 of the 2023/24 season.

Bilbao come into this tie in good shape having beaten Villarreal 3-2 in their last outing to take their points haul of the season to 21 (W6, D3, L3). That points total represents their best total after 12 games in the 21st century, meaning that Ernesto Valverde’s side are on the verge of even more history with a win here.

They will want to keep the positive mood going as they attempt to break into the top four places.

They currently sit in fifth place and they can reduce the gap between them and fourth-placed Atletico Madrid to one point if they win here.

Winning will require that they are more focused and tight at the back after conceding eight in six league games at home.

However, Celta Vigo will unlikely trouble the hosts’ backline much as the visitors have a poor away record this season. In five trips away from home, Celta Vigo have just one win and one draw, which means their last three away league games have ended in losses.

Athletic’s imposing undefeated record of W6, D3 as favourites this season doesn’t bode well for the languishing Celta who sit in the relegation zone (W1, D4, L7), particularly as they themselves haven’t won a single La Liga match as an underdog this season (D1, L4).

Although Rafael Benítez hasn’t enjoyed his tenure at Celta, he will be hoping for better luck at the San Mames where Celta have lost just once in their last four meetings (W2, D1).

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera Liga:

May 10, 2024
Alaves 20:00 Girona
May 11, 2024
Mallorca 13:00 Las Palmas
Villarreal 15:15 Sevilla
Granada 17:30 Real Madrid
Athletic Bilbao 20:00 Osasuna
May 12, 2024
Cadiz 13:00 Getafe
Atlético de Madrid 15:15 Celta Vigo
Valencia 17:30 Rayo Vallecano
Real Betis 20:00 Almeria
May 13, 2024
Barcelona 20:00 Real Sociedad
May 14, 2024
Osasuna 18:30 Mallorca
Real Madrid 20:30 Alaves
Girona 21:00 Villarreal
May 15, 2024
Sevilla 18:30 Cadiz
Rayo Vallecano 18:30 Granada
Celta Vigo 21:00 Athletic Bilbao
Getafe 21:00 Atlético de Madrid
May 16, 2024
Las Palmas 18:30 Real Betis
Almeria 20:30 Barcelona
Real Sociedad 21:00 Valencia

Spanish Primera Liga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 34 27 6 1 74 22 +52 87
2 Girona 34 23 5 6 73 42 +31 74
3 Barcelona 34 22 7 5 70 43 +27 73
4 Atlético de Madrid 34 21 4 9 63 39 +24 67
5 Athletic Bilbao 34 17 10 7 55 33 +22 61
6 Real Sociedad 34 14 12 8 48 35 +13 54
7 Real Betis 34 13 13 8 43 39 +4 52
8 Valencia 34 13 8 13 37 39 -2 47
9 Villarreal 34 12 9 13 56 58 -2 45
10 Getafe 34 10 13 11 41 47 -6 43
11 Alaves 34 11 8 15 32 38 -6 41
12 Sevilla 34 10 11 13 45 46 -1 41
13 Osasuna 34 11 6 17 37 51 -14 39
14 Las Palmas 34 10 7 17 30 43 -13 37
15 Celta Vigo 34 8 10 16 40 52 -12 34
16 Rayo Vallecano 34 7 13 14 27 43 -16 34
17 Mallorca 34 6 14 14 27 40 -13 32
18 Cadiz 34 4 14 16 23 49 -26 26
19 Granada 34 4 9 21 36 64 -28 21
20 Almeria 34 2 11 21 33 67 -34 17

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