Real Madrid and RC Celta will meet again in Matchday 34 of this LALIGA EA SPORTS season, an important game for both teams as the hosts look to keep their title hopes alive and as the visitors seek European qualification. The three points will be ever so valuable, and both teams will give their all. For Real Madrid, they’ll want to bounce back following their loss in the Copa del Rey final, while the team from Vigo wants some revenge for their elimination at the hands of Los Blancos in that same cup competition. Click this link https://a.meridianbet.ke/c/C7pYjz to start gaming and stand a chance of winning big with Meridianbet.
Carlo Ancelotti’s side enters this matchday in second place with 72 points, while Claudio Giráldez’s charges are seventh with 46. The two teams have met twice already this season, with Los Blancos coming out on top both times, but in two hard-fought games. The Galicians had their chances to win both matches, but couldn’t overcome Los Merengues, losing 2-1 in the first league meeting and 5-2 in extra time in a Copa del Rey Last 16 duel.
This time, RC Celta hopes for a different outcome. Even though they ultimately lost, they’ll look to repeat the kind of performance they put in when they recently visited FC Barcelona at the Estadi Olímpic in Montjuïc. There, they narrowly lost 4-3, in what might have been the game of the season in LALIGA EA SPORTS.
A duel of in-form strikers in Kylian Mbappé and Borja Iglesias
Kylian Mbappé and Borja Iglesias are two to watch, since they are two of the best strikers in the competition at the moment. The Frenchman is the second-top scorer in LALIGA EA SPORTS with 22 goals, three behind top scorer Robert Lewandowski on 25. Meanwhile, Borja Iglesias has nine league goals, but four of them have come in the last two games, including his spectacular hat-trick against Barça.
Mbappé has a good record against RC Celta, having netted in his previous two meetings with the Galician side. On the other hand, Borja Iglesias doesn’t have such a good record against Los Blancos, as he has never won against Real Madrid and has never scored a goal against them either. He has only been able to provide one assist in nine games. It is true, though, that he has managed to draw on four occasions, something that is not easy against Real Madrid, but this time he’s setting out for victory.
RC Celta haven’t won in the Bernabéu in LALIGA EA SPORTS in nearly two decades
RC Celta are looking to do something they haven’t managed for nearly 20 years in LALIGA EA SPORTS: win at the Bernabéu. The last time they overcame Real Madrid away in the league was November 5th 2006, a 2-1 win in matchday nine of that season.
It is true that, looking across all competitions, RC Celta have won at the Bernabéu since then, doing so eight years ago in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey by a 2-1 margin. In the second leg they drew 2-2 at home, meaning Los Celestes eliminated Los Merengues. Since then, though, Real Madrid have not lost a single match against the team from Vigo. You’d have to look back to the penultimate matchday of the 2013/14 LALIGA EA SPORTS season for the last RC Celta league win against Real Madrid, a 2-0 victory in Vigo.
Two uniquely fascinating styles
This match at the Bernabéu will pit two quite different teams against each other, even if these are two units that like to attack. While Los Blancos have played with a 4-3-3 for most of this season, Giráldez has opted either for a 4-2-3-1 or 3-5-2, or even a 3-4-3, populating the centre of the pitch.
What the two teams do have in common is that they both look to attack. That is reflected by the fact that they are both among the top-scoring teams in the division. Real Madrid are second only to FC Barcelona in terms of goals scored, while RC Celta enter the top seven for goals, as they’re level with Real Betis and Athletic Club and behind only Villarreal CF, Atlético de Madrid, Real Madrid, and FC Barcelona in this category.
Real Madrid have a more counter-attacking style, looking to do damage in space with the speed of their forwards, while the Galicians like to gradually create space by stringing passes together and then getting their wing-backs or wingers involved, depending on the system. It should be a fascinating watch this Sunday, in this key duel in the title race and battle for European positions.
