Salvation showing the face

He Celtic was working homework in the last days… but also his rivals. Durability in the category will be expensive in this 2022/2023 season. if the current projection is retained. At the moment, Valladolid made the cut, which after the defeat in Balaídos remained with 24 points and has only one difference compared to Valencia, while Elche, with nine, seems already a foot and a half in the silver category.

Between Valladolid and Celta has three teams on three points. And the two of them Almeria and Cadiz, won this weekend. The third side in contention did not do so in the tie with 25 points, Sevilla. Right in front of him are Vigovic with 27, the same number as Espanyol, who managed to string together two victories.

At that time they are needed 24 points to be sure. If you look at the records in recent years, it is among the highest figures in the last two decades and the highest in the last ten seasons tied to the 2018/2019 season, in which the Vigos were also in contention. He Gironawhich went downhill, was eliminated with 24 points and Ray, who finished at the bottom, had 23 and was already in the red zone. Celta also had 24, but they were sixteenth and finished one position lower.

If we go back a little further into the past, the season in which the most points were won so far was 2006/2007, the last relegation of the team from Vigo. After the first 23 days, Athletic took the top spot with the same points as the Celtics, who ended up one less than them, but in the same positions they were in at the moment.

The following year it also took 25 units to disappear, in the case of Recreativo, while Deportivo had 24 and was in decline, although eventually rescued. A third example with 24 points needed to move off the cliff at this point in the tournament is the 2011/2012 campaign, when Villarreal were seventeenth with 26 and Racing Santander eighteenth with 23.

at the end of the season

The most expensive save at the end of the season in the last twenty years was that of the academic year 2010/2011, when Mallorca needed to add 44 points to achieve sustainability, and Deportivo were eliminated with 43. That figure would be worth staying in any of the other last 20 campaigns.

The next relegations with the most points are those of Betis and Zaragoza with 42 in the 2008/2009 and 2007/2008 campaigns, respectively. 41 was not enough for Valladolid in 2003/2004, in which Celta lost with 39. In the last ten years, Osasuna said goodbye to the first league, although they added 39 points.

Two remaining for Celta, which added 37 points

Celta have saved twice in the last five years, adding just 37 points. It was they who brought him seventeenth consecutive place in the 2018/2019 campaign, with Fran Escribá, and 2019/2020, with Óscar García Junyento. In addition, they repeated the figure and position from 2012/2013, the first current stage in the First League, that of a 4% save with Abel Resin.

However, in the recent history of the League, there have been cheaper defenses than these heavenly three. The most is that of Leganés, which is in the 2016/2017 season. was lucky to stay in the elite with only 35 points. Granada and Eibar also had their limit at that amount in 2014/2015, although the Basques would have been relegated if not for Elche’s relegation. Already at the age of 36, Elche managed to stay in the 2020/2021 season. Without even reaching 40, Cádiz saved itself last season (39).

less points

In recent years, as a general rule, fewer points have been required to achieve durability. In the last 20 years, 40 or more points were needed twelve times, but eight of those were between 2002 and 2012. In the last decade, that haul was needed only four times. Now, the current season seems to continue on the path of demanding high points.