The return to the Balaídos stadium of Celta’s sports director until a week ago, Felipe Miñambresmarks the duel between his former team and Levante, who will seek a new victory that will allow them to continue dreaming of salvation.
His victory during the week at the Wanda has given some life to Levante. Miñambres landed in Valencia assuming that, Probably, it will be up to him to build a team to play in Second. But before that he reminded the squad led by Alessio Lisci that in the 2018-19 season the Galician team performed “the miracle” of remaining in LaLiga when they only had a 4 percent chance.
Opposite will be a Celta team that has been left in no man’s land after their last goalless draw against Cádiz at the Ramón de Carranza. After that tie, Celtism accused Coudet of lack of ambitionespecially since the Argentine coach withdrew his most unsettling footballer from the field, Iago Aspasin the final stretch of the match.
Despite criticism, Coudet won’t change anything. He will continue to trust the same footballers who have been playing lately. The only novelty could be the entry of the Peruvian international Renato Tapia as a defensive pivot, although it seems difficult that apart from starting Fran Beltran for its great performance.
For its part, Levante visits Balaídos with the boost of morale that the victory away from Atlético de Madrid meantwhich has meant rekindling the flame of hope of being able to fight for permanence, of which they are ten points away, although with one game less than Granada, which marks the safety zone.
For this meeting, Alessio Lisci will continue to have problems in the defense axis due to casualties due to injury Shkodran Mustafi, Sergio Postigo and Ruben Vezo; although he is expected to repeat an eleven with three centrals.
To these three casualties are added those of Jose Campana, Nemanja Radoja in the medullary and lateral Enric Franquesa. On the contrary, he recovers the forward Roberto Soldado after serving his one-match ban.
Likely lineups
Celtic: diturus; Hugo Mallo, Aidoo, Araujo, Javi Galan; Beltran; Brais Mendez, Denis Suarez, Cervi; Aspas and Santi Mina.
I raised: Cardenas; Miramón, Cáceres, Duarte, Róber Pier, Son; Of Fruits, Pepelu, Melero, Bardhi; and Roger.