Vincent West
Dailysports's expert
Mallorca
Celta Vigo
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On January 20, Visit Mallorca Stadium (Palma de Mallorca) will host the match of the 18th round of the La Liga, in which Mallorca will compete with Celta Vigo. The battle will start at 21:00 CET.
Mallorca
The club got 39 points in the previous season, only 1 more than relegated Granada. That 16th place was a great achievement, because, it gave an opportunity not to be eliminated immediately after the rise to the Primera. Actually, it was the merit of Javier Aguirre, who led the newcomer at a time when no one really believed in it – he ensured a fairly powerful finish in the previous temporada. And in the current one, “Los Bermellones” initially began to collect points in a pretty active way. More than a third of the matches were won, 6 out of 17, these results allow the team to, more or less confidently, stay in the middle of the standings – excellent intermediate results for the club, which used to struggle for salvation. At the same time, it can relax a little bit, and there is no surprise that “the Islanders” lost with a 0-1 score to Osasuna in the previous round, which is fighting for the chances to play in the European competitions.
Celta Vigo
The team, unlike its following opponent, hasn't been relegated for a long time (moreover, it recently knocked out Shakhtar and Krasnodar in the play-offs of the Europa League). But taking into account previous years, the representative of Vigo has been regularly “skating on the thin ice”, winning the struggle for survival. The same story was two seasons before under the rule of Coudet. The Argentine specialist could not give something more to “the Galicians”, and they were finally disappointed in him, being tired with new failures, in the autumn. To tell the truth, it seemed that under the rule of his successor, Carvalhal, the situation had reached a dead end. But in the first weeks of January, Carlos proved that, having got the time to correct his mistakes, he improved the game of his wards during the pause in the tournament. Draws in the matches with Sevilla and Villarreal, combined with a victory in the game against Elche, allowed the team to run away from the top three outsiders in some way.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
Mallorca had a good history of the head-to-head matches. But in the previous season, Celta Vigo was better. Still, those matches were more than different: a 0-0 draw and an enchanting 4-3 score!
Predictions
Bookmakers consider the opponents to be almost equal. Taking into account this fact and the statistics of recent matches, it is worth betting on “total: under 2.0” (odd: 1.82).
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