Celta had good chances of being eliminated in the last season, but only a miracle saved the team from Vigo from relegation to Segunda. The start of the new championship did not bring the expected improvement in the game, which came along with the change of the head coach. After the Argentinean Eduardo Coudet took over as mentor to the “heavenly”, the situation changed dramatically. The Celts managed to break into the top ten after a series of successful matches in the fall and early winter. For 27 rounds of the current La Liga championship, the Celts have chalked up eight victories and ten draws, which corresponds to 34 points and 10th position in the standings. In the last five rounds hosts have stumbled only once in a duel with Valencia (0:2). The team twice shared tournament points with Valladolid (1:1) and Athletic (0:0). In addition, they chalked up two successful fights with Elche (3:1) and Huesca (4 :3). The start of the team in the Spanish Cup ended in failure, where the team passed only the first stage, but already at the next stage lost to Ibiza (2:5) from the third league. Today, Alvarez, Blanco and Mor, who have a muscle injury, will not be able to enter the field.
The Nacional crisis has been going on since mid-February. During this period, the team suffered five fiasco in a row in the championship. Scoring goals, the club did not score points in meetings with Farense (2:3), Belenenses, Braga, Pasos de Ferreira and Maritimo (1:2) in the last round. These failures threw Nacional to 17th position in the standings and it is only one point ahead of the direct relegation zone.
