Celta bleeds dry in Balaídos. The home games are taking a toll on Benítez’s team, which has had one of the worst starts in its history at home in the first five rounds of the League. The celestials count the three matches played in their fiefdom as defeats, with the aggravating factor that the rival has not had to serve from the center even once. Not only have Celta not scored goals in their three appearances at Balaídos, but they have conceded at least one goal every time they have played in front of their home crowd this season. Osasuna made it two, Real Madrid took the three points thanks to a single goal from Bellingham and Mallorca left the celestials with a hand’s breadth last Saturday when Muriqi decided the match in the 85th minute, with almost no reaction time , in one of his three shots between the three sticks against Iván Villar’s goal.
Never in history had he lost the first three league games at home without scoring in his first century of life. The last precedent of three consecutive losses at home at the start dates back to the 2020-21 season, with Eduardo Coudet leading the bench. The light blue team started the season losing against Atlético de Madrid (1-2), then lost against Athletic Club without a single shot on goal (0-1) and saw on the next day how Cádiz got on top of their beards in Balaídos (1-2).
To find a precedent of three defeats at home without scoring a goal, you have to go back to the 2016-17 season, the last one in which Eduardo Berizzo led Celta. Between matchdays 30 and 34, the light blue team also accumulated 270 minutes without scoring: they lost 0-2 against Eibar, later fell to Betis (0-1) and then bit the dust against Athletic Club (0-3) . The negative sequence was completed with a fourth defeat at home, beaten by Real Madrid (1-4), although in this last match the celestials finally managed to score, through John Guidetti, after 338 blank minutes.
It is not the first time since the last promotion to the First Division that Celta has gone on a long streak without winning in Balaídos. In the 13-14 season, with Luis Enrique Martínez at the helm, the light blue team had to wait no less than 15 games (7 games) to achieve their first victory at home. The negative sequence began with three draws (Espanyol, 2-2; Granada, 1-1; and Villarreal, 0-0), which was followed by four defeats without a single goal in favor: Elche (0-1), Levante (0-1); Barcelona, 0-3; and Rayo Vallecano 0-2). The spell was broken in the eighth game with a 3-1 victory against Almería. Celta then accumulated five consecutive games without winning and scoring at home. Since Rafinha scored against Granada on the third matchday until Orellana ended the bad streak on the fifteenth matchday, 511 minutes passed without Balaídos seeing his rival serve from a cross.
This streak of four consecutive games without winning at home was the second worst in the club’s history, surpassed only by the one experienced with Fernando Vázquez in the 2006-07 campaign, which ended with Celta in the Second Division. Celta then, between matchdays 8 and 28, played eleven games (5 losses and 6 draws) without winning the three points in Balaídos.
2023-09-18 04:10:12
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