Celta – Lille. Forecast and announcement for the Europa League match

On Thursday, January 22, the match of the 7th round of the main stage of the Europa League between “Celta” and “Lille” will take place. The game will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

Celta

The team is showing quite good results in the current season. After 20 rounds of La Liga, “Celta” has 32 points, which allows it to occupy the 7th step of the tournament table. However, even the team lags behind the top 5 by only 2 points. The club left the Spanish Cup at the round of 16 after losing to Albacete.

For 6 rounds of the Europa League, the Spaniards were able to win 9 points, which allow them to take 19th place in the overall competition table. Only 2 points separate the club from the 25th place.

Lille

The season is not bad for the French. In 18 rounds of Ligue 1, Lille was able to score 32 points, which allows it to take the 5th place in the tournament table. The team is only 3 points behind the 3rd place. The team was eliminated from the French Cup at the round of 16 by Lyon.

In the Europa League, the French show identical results to “Celta” – after 6 rounds, the club has 9 points on its balance sheet. However, Lille is in 20th place in the tournament table due to the worse goal/concealed difference.

Personal meetings

The clubs have never met each other in official games.

Interesting facts

• “Celta” won in each of the last 3 home matches.
• “Lille” lost 3/3 of the previous matches.
• In the last 6 La Liga games, “Celta” kept 5 clean sheets.

Forecast

Considering Celta’s excellent defense, you shouldn’t expect too productive a match. I will bet on a total of less than 3 (with a coefficient of 1.5 on the BC betking line).