I have previewed - and backed - Celta recently several times, but due to the horrible injuries they got at Real Madrid game that strategy is out for a month at least!

The results and xG before the trip to Madrid were excellent, and Celta also pleased the eye. You could see the joy in their performances.

Celta have scored 22 goals this season, 18 of them open play and almost all of them were started or finished - or both - by Iago Aspas and Nolito who both got injured last round and are unavailable for some time.

Not having them is the biggest blow that can happen to a La Liga team, they were the super pairing, and even if Santi Mina and Brais Mendez are not bad strikers as such they will also lack the feeding, and I struggle to see Celta scoring here.

That is not all from the bad news front. Renato Tapia who is the lone defending midfielder in Coudet's system is suspended, and all the possible replacements are far from his class in tackling, in the air, in the duels in general. If the Turkish Yokusly takes over there will only be aggresiveness but not much more.

In short, Celta have just lost their 3 best players, and do not have the width to cope with it, and the loss away at 2B side Ibiza in the Cup showed it well! Celta did blame the artificial pitch and some rotation for the result, but conceding 5 goals vs a team of this level is simply unforgivable. They were actually 4-0 down after 60 minutes!

Villarreal played perhaps their best half vs Levante last round, and for the first 65 minutes there was only one team on the pitch.

There was some lack of concentration at 2-0 up and Levante did create some late scare, all in all it was a very deserved win, a good performance rose the 5th place in the table, which is well earned. They have 29 points, could have even a few more if we compare the results to xG-data, they have failed to quite reach the expected goals and too much responsibility of the scoring is on the shoulders of Gerald Moreno who has scored 9 of their 22 goals. The good news are the performances of striker Fer Niño.

Also Villarreal are a team who are at their best in open play, be it a slow attack or a counter, but there is not much threat from set pieces. Coudet's Celta have been very attacking recently and they have relied on Aspas and Nolito creating the chances from the free roles the whole attacking 6 players do have, but for me the main question here is the defensive midfield as Tapia was hugely important, and this is where this match is decided.

At Villarreal no new injury worries. They lost the midfield anchor Yborra a few rounds ago, and finding the right man for the job is their main priority. At least the fared better in the cup vs a lower team, and won 1-4 away at Zamora this midweek.

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我已经预演过好几次了，也支持过塞尔塔，但是由于他们在与皇家马德里的比赛中严重受伤，这个策略至少要停演一个月!

结果和xG在马德里之行之前都很出色，塞尔塔也很满意。你可以从他们的表演中看到喜悦。

塞尔塔本赛季已经攻入22个进球，其中18个是在公开比赛中攻入的，几乎所有的进球都是由阿斯帕斯和诺利托首发或完成的，他们都在上一轮比赛中受伤，将缺阵一段时间。

没有他们对西甲球队来说是最大的打击，他们是超级搭档，即使圣米娜和门德斯都不是很糟糕的前锋，他们也会缺少进攻，我很难看到塞尔塔在这里进球。

这并非全是坏消息。雷纳托·塔皮亚是库德特体系中唯一的防守中场，他被停赛了，所有可能的替补球员在抢断、空中和决斗方面都与他格格不入。如果土耳其Yokusly接管，那里只会有侵略性，但不会有更多。

简而言之，塞尔塔刚刚失去了他们最好的3名球员，他们没有足够的宽度来应对，而在杯赛中输给2B队伊比沙队就很好地证明了这一点!塞尔塔确实将这一结果归咎于人为的场地和一些轮换，但面对这样水平的球队，丢5个球是不可原谅的。他们在60分钟后就以4比0落后了!

比利亚雷亚尔在上一轮对阵莱万特的比赛中表现最好，前65分钟只有一支球队在场上。

在2-0领先的时候有些注意力不集中，莱万特确实制造了一些后期的恐慌，总的来说，这是一个非常应得的胜利，一个出色的表现上升到积分榜的第5名，这是值得的。他们有29分，如果我们把结果和xg的数据比较，可能会多出一些，他们没有达到预期的目标，太多的得分责任落在杰拉德·莫雷诺肩上，他打进了他们22个进球中的9个。好消息是前锋费尔尼诺的表现。

同样，比利亚雷亚尔是一支在公开场合表现最好的球队，无论是慢攻还是反击，但定位球的威胁并不大。最近Coudet塞尔塔非常的攻击,他们依靠Aspas和球员创造机会的整个攻击6位玩家有免费的角色,但是对我来说这里的主要问题是防守中场Tapia是非常重要的,这是这场比赛的决定。

在比利亚雷亚尔没有新的伤病问题。他们在几个回合前失去了中场主力伊博拉，而寻找合适的人选是他们的首要任务。至少他们在对阵一支实力较弱的球队的比赛中表现得更好，并在本周中以1-4战胜了扎莫拉。

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