Levante 0- Celta 1: Galician rush their options to save

Last update 1 May, 2013 by Alberto Llopis

Celta Vigo added three vital points in their fight to avoid the category break by defeating the Levante (0-1) in the City of Valencia, in a match in which the Vigo team was superior to the Valencians, who certified their current crises with the fourth consecutive defeat in the Spanish league.

Although the qualifying situation is not worrying, thanks to its ten-point mattress with the relegation zone, The four defeats in a row add to the bad feelings that Juan Ignacio Martínez's team has been transmitting for a couple of months.

The first minutes were dominated by Celta against a Levante well positioned on the pitch and waiting to go on the counterattack., although neither goal nor the other experienced overwhelming situations.

Abel Resino's team was dedicated to touching the ball in the center of the field waiting to open the Levante defense against a Levante that was trying to steal the ball in search of a quick counter with which to surprise its rival.

But it was Celta who managed to open the scoring at the 20 minutes of play through the Argentine Augusto Fernández after a play by the Danish Krohn-Delhi on the left wing, in which the Nordic player centered the ball so that the former Velez Sarsfield player headed in without the Costa Rican Keylor Navas being able to prevent the goal.

The goal barely changed the script of the duel. Celta continued to control the game and took advantage of the indolence of Levante's game, that throughout the first half he only shot on goal once.

Far from clearing up the doubts in the game of the last few days, Levante increased them with an imprecise and rough game very far from the one that led them last season and the beginning of the current one to star in the most brilliant moments in their history.

A) Yes, Celta reached the break with a very favorable outlook, with the score in favor, the control of the ball and with a Levante without bite that did not give the impression of turning the score around.

The Levant, who made two changes at half-time in search of a reaction, had more scoring opportunities in just three minutes of this second period than in the 45 previous with two occasions, but it was Celta who came closest to scoring when Iago Aspas wasted, who returned to play today after four games of suspension, a very favorable heads-up against Keylor Navas.

Levante's good start did not continue and again Iago Aspas could have added the second for a Celta that saw how the referee awarded a very dubious penalty for an alleged knockdown by Jony to Acquafresca but that Barkero wasted by throwing the ball wide..

Late in the second half, the teams exchanged roles., since Levante took the initiative while Celta retreated well into their field and with the idea of ​​looking for some counterattack to end the clash.

In the final stretch of the crash, the Levant, pressured by the score against, He looked harder for Javi Varas' goal but the Vigo team held on well, with hardly any trouble, the attacks of his rival.

Only in added time did the local team have an unbeatable opportunity to at least score a point, but Javi Varas stopped a very strong shot from Simao Mate and Levante could not avoid its fourth consecutive defeat.