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Match info:

Villarreal vs Celta Vigo

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – El Madrigal

Date: 15th February

Kick-off time – 21:00 GMT+1

11th position Celta Vigo travel to the El Madrigal this Saturday evening to face 5th position Villarreal in the Spanish Primera Liga.


Recent form:

Both sides have won 3 of their last 7 games.

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The Spanish Primera table looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Atlético de Madrid 18 12 5 1 33 12 +21 41
2 Real Madrid 18 12 4 2 41 18 +23 40
3 Barcelona 19 12 2 5 51 22 +29 38
4 Athletic Bilbao 19 10 6 3 29 17 +12 36
5 Villarreal 18 8 6 4 34 30 +4 30
6 Mallorca 19 9 3 7 19 21 -2 30
7 Real Sociedad 18 7 4 7 16 13 +3 25
8 Girona 18 7 4 7 26 25 +1 25
9 Osasuna 18 6 7 5 23 27 -4 25
10 Celta Vigo 18 7 3 8 27 28 -1 24
11 Real Betis 17 6 6 5 20 21 -1 24
12 Las Palmas 18 6 4 8 23 27 -4 22
13 Sevilla 18 6 4 8 20 27 -7 22
14 Rayo Vallecano 17 5 6 6 19 20 -1 21
15 Leganes 18 4 6 8 17 28 -11 18
16 Alaves 18 4 5 9 21 30 -9 17
17 Getafe 18 3 7 8 11 15 -4 16
18 Espanyol 18 4 3 11 16 30 -14 15
19 Valencia 17 2 6 9 16 26 -10 12
20 Real Valladolid 18 3 3 12 12 37 -25 12

A win for Villarreal will not improve their position but move them closer to a Champions League qualifying position.

A win for Celta Vigo could move them as high as 9th.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 17 times in recent years and Celta Vigo have come out on top most often.

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 0:0, 0:1, 1:1, 1:0 and 1:1.

Possible line-ups

Villarreal (4-4-2)

Asenjo
Costa
Dorado
Paulista
Mario
Moisés
Pina
Trigueros
Aquino
dos Santos
Uche

Celta Vigo (4-5-1)

Yoel
Castro
Fontàs
Cabral
Mallo
Orellana
Rafinha
López
Krohn-Dehl
Mina
Charles

Bookmakers make Villarreal odds-on favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Villarreal (8/15) Draw (3/1) Vigo (5/1)Gamingtips Prediction – Villarreal 3:1 Vigo 

Villarreal are the 4th highest scoring team in the Spanish Primera behind Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.  They have scored 44 goals in 23 games.

Villarreal also have the 4th best defensive record in the division having conceded 27 goals in 23 games.

Celta Vigo have scored 29 goals in 23 games and conceded 35 so far this season giving them an overall negative goal difference.

Ultimately Villarreal should have enough quality and fire power to overcome Celta Vigo with dos Santos (scored 9) and Uche (scored 11) up front.

Celta Vigo will be looking to their striker Charles (scored 8) to perform in order to give them a chance of coming out on top this Saturday evening.

Celta Vigo also have history on their side having won 8 of the last 17 times these two sides met.

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