Celta Vigo v Krasnodar Betting Tips: 1, 2017-03-09

Celta Vigo to draw first blood against Krasnodar

Europa League Tips

CELTA VIGO v KRASNODAR

Thursday 9th March 2017 – Kickoff: 2005hrs

Football – Europe – Europa League Betting Tips

It’s the Round of last 16 in the Europa League starting on Thursday evening and my next pick features Spanish outfit Celta Vigo having first bite of the cherry at home in the first leg against Russian side Krasnodar at their Estadio de Balaídos.

Celta Vigo will need to shrug off their 5-0 thrashing at Barcelona in  La Liga from the weekend pretty quickly to focus on the job in hand tonight, but they come into this fixture having accounted for Ukrainian outfit Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 over two legs.

Celta Vigo have also shown some strong form on home turf generally in recent times as they’ve suffered just one defeat from their last nine matches in all competitions which was a 1-0 loss to Shakhtar in the first leg of the recent Europa League tie – Celta managed to win 2-0 away from home in the second leg to progress.

Visitors Krasnodar fended off Turkish club Fenerbahce over two legs in the previous round of 32 to progress into the next round against Celta Vigo as they registered a 1-0 win in their home leg and drew 1-1 away from home in the second.

The Russian side will now be looking to do the reverse in this round at Celta Vigo although their form on their travels in the Europa League hasn’t been entirely convincing in recent times; defeats at Schalke and Nice were followed up with the draw at Fenerbahce but they’ve gained just three away wins from their last 12 trips.

All in all, this is set to be an interesting tussle between these two sides who have never met in european competition before, but I’ll back Celta Vigo to draw first blood here.

Pick: Celta Vigo to win @ 1.67 William Hill