Espanyol vs Celta Vigo: LaLiga insights, form and key players

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Espanyol sits at the tail end of the league schedule with a vital home appointment in their stadium. After losses at Valladolid and at the Bernabéu, the Parakeets prepare to host Celta Vigo, aiming to turn recent form into a winning run.

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  • Espanyol has claimed six of the nine LaLiga meetings with Celta Vigo since the 2017/18 season, producing 2 victories and 1 draw in that span. It is the club’s highest draw tally against a single opponent in this period.
  • At home, Espanyol has lost just one of their last 11 LaLiga fixtures against Celta Vigo, with a 0-2 result in September 2016 when Quique Sánchez Flores was in charge of Espanyol and Eduardo Berizzo led the visitors.
  • Espanyol have dropped two league games in a row after a pair of wins, and have not suffered three consecutive Primera Division losses since April 2022, a sequence of three defeats.
  • Celta Vigo have not lost in their last four LaLiga matches (2 wins, 2 draws), keeping a clean sheet in three straight games. They have not conceded in four straight top-flight matches since April 2006 (4 wins) in which no goal was allowed.
  • Espanyol has conceded the most first goals in LaLiga this season (17), tied with Elche and Girona, and the most draws immediately after that (0 wins, 8 draws, 9 defeats).
  • With a double against Rayo Vallecano, Iago Aspas reached double-digit goals for the eighth straight LaLiga season (11 goals in 22/23), joining a small group of prolific centuries in the 21st century after David Villa, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez to achieve this feat.
  • Espanyol forward Joselu Mato has 12 goals in 22 LaLiga appearances this season, the second-highest single-season tally of his top-flight career after 14 goals in 37 games for Alavés in 2021/22.
  • Espanyol head coach Diego Martínez has drawn three of the five LaLiga matches he has overseen against Celta Vigo (one win, one draw).

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