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Celta Vigo vs Valencia Prediction & Betting tips
Matchday 2 in La Liga is on. Like last season, Celta Vigo and Valencia will meet again on the 2nd matchday at the Estadio Balaidos. Last season Celta won just 1-0 in the same place, but now Valencia – quite surprisingly – travels to Galicia as championship leaders.
Valencia won the opening game 4-2 against city rivals Levante, while Celta couldn’t get past a 0-0 win in Eibar.
A look at the best betting providers shows that before Celta Vigo vs. Valencia the odds are very even, but the home team is slightly favored.
Celta Vigo:
Last season, Celta Vigo only managed five home wins – the second weakest in the league, only the relegated and bottom of the table Espanyol had fewer successes in their own stadium (2).
The fact that Celta was able to keep the class in the end was owed to many draws (13 in 26 games under Oscar Garcia alone) and also a huge portion of luck that Leganes could not make his last game victorious – otherwise Celta would have entered the Segunda division have to.
So the Celtistas stayed just above the line – this year, of course, everything should get better again. Because the claims that they are completely different from being stuck in the relegation swamp at Celta and fighting for survival up to the last game day and sometimes the last minute of game day 38.
This has now been the case for two seasons in a row, now they want to experience a quieter season under coach Oscar Garcia. It takes victories for that, especially at the Estadio Balaidos at home. But already at the start of the season at SD Eibar, they seamlessly continued last season, because there was another draw: 0-0 they separated from Eibar on matchday 1, it is the favorite result of Celta under Garcia.
Celta ended a game goalless seven times in the past season, six of them under Garcia alone.
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Valencia:
While the summer was very calm for opponents Celta, the exact opposite was the case for Valencia. The club turned its squad upside down, or rather: sent away numerous regular players without signing new ones. Captain Dani Parejo, midfield clearer Francis Coquelin (both at Villarreal), attacker Rodrigo (for Leeds United) and center-back Ezequiel Garay (without a club) all left the club.
The departure of Parejos in particular caused a sensation, as Valencia simply sent him away despite the current contract, without even demanding a transfer. They just wanted to get rid of him, why exactly, the club around owner Peter Lim, who did tabula rasa, is silent about that. In tears, the Valencia captain gave a virtual interview that he had scheduled himself, because the club had denied him an official farewell press conference.
Valencia has so far not presented any newcomers, which prompted new coach Javi Gracia to express his displeasure at the press conference before matchday 1 and how disappointed he was to have to start the season with a rump squad.
But he did his job surprisingly well in the derby against Levante at the start, winning 4-2 despite being behind two times – this made Valencia the first championship leader of the season. And that with three self-grown children in the starting eleven, who were 21, 19 and 17 years old.
No wonder that before Celta Vigo vs. Valencia the betting odds of the providers are therefore very even, a favorite cannot be identified in advance. The performance of the Valencianos in particular is difficult to assess in view of the turbulent summer and the many departures, which is why we at Celta Vigo vs. Valencia would most likely recommend the tip on a different and peaceful draw.
Celta Vigo vs Valencia head to head matches
01.02.20 LL Valencia Celta Vigo 1 : 0
24.08.19 LL Celta Vigo Valencia 1 : 0
19.01.19 LL Celta Vigo Valencia 1 : 2
26.09.18 LL Valencia Celta Vigo 1 : 1
21.04.18 LL Celta Vigo Valencia 1 : 1