Osasuna vs Celta Vigo

Osasuna will play host to Celta Vigo at the Estadio El Sadar as they open their 2021/22 La Liga season on home ground.

An underwhelming scoreless home draw against newly-promoted Espanyol on Matchday 1 came as further confirmation of Osasuna’s immense scoring problems. Indeed, ‘Los Rojillos’ were held goalless in a league third-high 39.47% of their top-flight fixtures last term, which is a concern heading into this encounter. Another goalless stalemate would see Osasuna open a new league season with back-to-back bore draws for the third time in the club’s history. That trend might change here, with Osasuna score precisely twice per game in back-to-back home league meetings with Celta after drawing a blank in two consecutive such contests beforehand. But an indifferent form across their last nine home La Liga matches (W3, D3, L3) saw Osasuna fail to get on the scoresheet in each game they didn’t win in that sequence.

Meanwhile, despite going down 2-1 to Atletico Madrid at home on the opening weekend, Celta will draw confidence from claiming back-to-back away league victories against Barcelona and Villarreal to complete the 2020/21 season. ‘Los Celestes’ were a fun team to watch down the final stretch of last season, with five of their final six away league fixtures seeing over 2.5 goals and both teams on the scoresheet. Edouardo Coudet will be keen to address Celta’s glaring defensive issues when traveling, having witnessed his side concede at least once in seven of their previous eight away La Liga games. Even though they’ve lost just two of their last eight top-flight H2Hs (W3, D3, L2), those two defeats came in their most recent visits to the Estadio El Sadar, which could be threatening.