Celta returns to the past

He March vacation He was not well Celtic. After the selection break, his indicators are more similar to the past era than time Carlos Carvalhal. The game has become more predictable and less dizzythe team monopolizes the ball possession in vain, the strategy again raises the average number of goals conceded to 1.6 in the last three matches, and the attacking chances decrease to the extent that Jago Aspas He saved one of his remarks at the beginning of the course about the team’s ills: the lack of quality in the latter. The technician boils it down to “failure on the road», but the addition of two points from the last nine invites us to think about closing the rescue as soon as possible in order to enter no man’s land later.

GAME

The team is more stuck than before the March break

It’s Celtic sixteenth in a hypothetical classification the last three days with two points, which equalized Getafe, and worsened Valencia (1) and Espanyol and Elche (0). But numbers aside, sensations They are not the same. Celtic foul shot in attack and consistency in defense, but above all maintaining the line of play before the break, when traffic was fluid and speed was the decisive weapon. Perhaps some of the players who have reached the peak of their form now have to return to their best version.

POSSESSION

73.3% for nothing

Carvalhal recently said that he is possession He wasn’t interested in the ball at all, and he said the same in the second leg of Mallorca, pointing out how goals are counted. The statement given a week ago was a statement of intent who broke with the past, with a long-standing tradition that said being a protagonist is in Celta’s DNA. This is where the team started to unravel Eduardo Coudet. On Monday, Celta absorbed the ball again after a long time, but they were not helped by possession of the ball for three quarters of the game.

CONCEPTED GOALS

Five goals in the last three games

One of the keys to Celta’s recovery was him defense force. Suddenly, Vigo’s men turned their average of two goals conceded per contest under Chacho into almost nothing four games without conceding goal after settings de Carvalhal, but in the last three games the team from Vigo conceded five goals and the ratio jumped again to 1.6 per game. The recovery of the defensive muscle seems to be crucial for the last part of the season.

STRATEGY

Four conceded games after a corner kick

IN Cornell started a sequence that still has no stop. Although there is talk about it stopped ball generally Celta’s big Achilles heel in this series, in reality the four goals conceded came from corner kick. The first three, from Espanyol, Almeria and Sevilla, directly, and the one on Monday, after Unai Núñez’s initial clearance that led to the second clearance and the subsequent goal by Amath. So far, Carvalhal is not worried for this aspect: “Before, I had to pray two Hail Marys and three Lord’s Prayers in every corner; I don’t feel it now.”

DEVELOPMENT

Three games behind on the scoreboard

At the beginning of the league Fit in aim was synonymous with fall; then, with the Portuguese coach, the team demonstrated ability to react recover from unfavorable results and save points, but always being behind on the scoreboard is not the best way to success and Celta started by losing the last three games. The first two ended in a draw, but against Mallorca they paid dearly for a rookie mistake. From the beginning seven game unbeaten streakCelta was behind only in Anoeta until the match with Almeria in Balaídos.

LAST PASS

Aspas dusts off the argument of starting the course

Jago Aspas he commented in the worst moments of the season that Celta paid lack of quality in it last pass. Moañés explained that the team lost that gift compared to the previous course and after the fight against the troops Javier Aguirrehe repeated again: “We lack the quality from last year to give the last pass, and it costs more.” Gabriel Veigawith its arrival, it became an alternative to filtered passes Denis Suarez, but Porriñés missed the visit to Pizjuán and physical problems did not allow him to have the best day against Mallorca. Namely, piling up the ball, Celta made only nine key passes in the last game, while their opponent, almost without smelling the ball, had six.

SHOOTING

Three hits between the sticks in 12 attempts

Domain and capabilities do not always go hand in hand. Celtic shot 12 times in the last game, but only three conceded a goal, and the fourth hit the crossbar. With four less attempts in the global showdown, Mallorca had two shots on goal and scored. In addition, regardless of the statistics, the cinnabars were close to scoring four more times. Two with very close shots Amath and many others at the central auctions Dennis Hadžikadunić in sets of strategies.

A STREAM

From seven unbeaten to three without a win, equaling Carvalhal’s worst run

The stripes quickly change sides if they do pulls out they are in between. Celta entered the field with a streak of seven games without defeat and as the third best team in the second round, but the loss against Mallorca, along with previous draws with Almeria and Sevilla, makes the current streak one of three games without a win, with two accumulated points out of a possible nine, repeating the numbers from the start of Carvalhal, when the defeat in the premiere was joined by two more draws. With the Portuguese, the Vigos beat Elche in the fourth game.

CLASSIFICATION

Waiting for the confirmation of salvation and the way to no man’s land

Europeso far it appears to be parked and the current scenario calls for Celta to look salvation as soon as possible to later enter the no man’s land where he lived for so long at the end of last season. According to Carvalhal’s calculations, the Vigo side need two wins in nine games to seal continuity in the First League. Elche and Getafe, two direct duels before the break for the Cup final, seem to be marked in red. Before Real Madrid, and in the middle Villarreal.