Atletico Madrid vs. Celta Vigo: 12th February 2017

Atletico Madrid is the team with the best defense in La Liga at home and this is all the more impressive. Atletico lost only once at home this season in the league. The defeat came in the match against rivals Real. Since that game, Atletico goal did not receive the Vicente Calderon, winning three of the four games played. These results have helped keep Atletico fourth place, ahead of Real Sociedad and Villarreal contracandidatelor. But mostly, Sevilla and Atletico approaches could attack the podium in the near future. Reached the semifinals Copa del Rey, Atletico surely would want more. Elimination could still be beneficial if the team will now focus only on the championship, the domestic competitions.

Celta had an excellent series of six wins in competitive matches. Among these was one with Real Madrid in the Cup quarterfinal match tor. That result proved decisive, eliminating Celta Galacticos 4-3 overall. The results that followed were not as impressive. In the Basque Country, Celta lost Sociedad. In La Liga came and another expected victory, against Leganes, but Alaves in Copa del Rey Celta brought back down to earth. Last round the team could not play in La Liga after some storms that affected certain regions of Spain. However, Celta failed to grasp the fact that players were more fresh than their opponents from Alaves and the road team in the cup ended in the penultimate stage of the competition.

Head to Head

Atletico Madrid was imposed in the last three games played against Celtic in La Liga. Diego Simeone’s team scored eight times in those matches, without receiving any goals.

Probable Teams

Besides absences older (Augusto Fernandez, Jan Oblak, Tiago), this game will not play any Diego Godin for guests. Jose Gimenez is not fully recovered, so Lucas Hernandez and Stefan Savic should be central defenders. Torres could get a chance to improve their form.

In camp guests should not occur changes from the band fielded in the cup match this week.

Atletico Madrid
Moya – Luis Hernandez, Savic, Juanfran – Gaitan, Gabi, Nigua, Koke – Griezmann, Torres

Celta Vigo
Alvarez – Jonny, Roncaglia, Cabral, Mallo – Rudoj, Diaz – Bongonda, Hernandez, Wass – Aspasia