Celta Vigo vs Mallorca prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2024-12-05 20:00.
[p]Stuck in mid-table, almost equidistant from the top-six and bottom three, Celta Vigo’s season seemingly sits on a knife edge. The visit of Europe-chasing Mallorca affords them the perfect chance to showcase their credentials, but with just one win from their last six La Liga games (D2, L3), it’s safe to say that Celta are shaping up more like relegation candidates at the moment. [/p]
[p]That’s not necessarily the case for the Sky Blues at home, as they boast a more-than respectable record there in La Liga this season (W4, D2, L2), with both of those defeats coming against sides in the top-three. Competing against the league’s better sides has been Celta’s undoing this season, with Claudio Giráldez’s men failing to beat a side starting this round above them in the table this season (D3, L5). [/p]
[p]Mallorca have comfortably made their best 16-game start to a La Liga season across the last decade, but a 5-1 midweek defeat to Barcelona was a stark reminder that they shouldn’t get carried away by their sixth-place pre-round placing. They won’t sit in such a lofty position for much longer if they can’t turn around a run of three defeats in five La Liga games (W2). [/p]
[p]Responding from Tuesday night’s thrashing is far from guaranteed either as Mallorca have lost two of their last three away league outings (W1). But they should be optimistic about the thought of facing Celta, as they’ve gone unbeaten in 11 of the last 12 La Liga H2Hs (W6, D5), while manager Jagoba Arrasate has won on his last two personal visits to face Celta. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Celta’s Iago Aspas has been involved in goals in five of his eight career H2Hs against Mallorca (G5, A2), yet has only been on the winning side once (D3, L4). Mallorca’s Vedat Muriqi was on target in midweek with his only goal of his last six at club level not to have been a header. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Mallorca have lost seven of their last nine Friday-held La Liga away games (W1, D1). Â [/p]
[p][i]Written by Chris Wilson[/i][/p]