The ‘Doctor’s’ recipes Carlos Carvalhal have transformed the Celtica team that has gone from fighting to avoid relegation to being a clear candidate for seventh place, which could give a ticket to play next season in Europe. Hand in hand with the Portuguese coach, the team from Vigo has grown in many aspects. Now it fits less, defends more organized, offers more variants in attack… but it has not been able to solve a problem that has been dragging on since the start of this season. Every time the rivals have a set piece option, the light blue ones tremble.
After just over a month without conceding a goal in a strategic move, the olive team returned to their old ways before the last break. He Spanish he marked him in a corner and last Sunday, in the resumption of the calendar after the FIFA windowhe Almeria he also took advantage of a corner kick. These goals conceded in two consecutive days bring the total set piece bill to six. Half a dozen targets, representing more than a third of the 17, including League and the Copa del Reythat they have done to Celta with the coach of braga on the bench.
One of the adversaries that the mole of the Carvalhal method has punished has been his next rival. He Seville saved a point on December 30 in ballads thanks to a headed corner by Kike Salas. The laboratory actions will be this Friday one of the main weapons of the team now trained by Jose Luis Mendilibarwho made his debut in office last day, opening the scoring in Cadiz with a bit of Lucas Ocampos after a corner kick.
The air power of the people of Seville, especially that of Youssef En-Nesyriwill be a challenge for the only Galician representative in First. Last Sunday Carvalhal blamed Almería’s first goal on the “desynchronization” caused by the FIFA Viruses and whenever he assesses the level of his team from set pieces he makes an optimistic reading. “We are fitting in a little, so I am satisfied, although the coaches are eternally dissatisfied. We can improve ”, he stated three weeks ago at the conclusion of the duel with Espanyol. His interpretation must be contextualized taking into account what he found when he took charge of the team: in the last four games of the stage of Eduardo Coudetthey scored five goals against Celta in strategic plays.