(Football news) For the first time since March, the visitors will have the chance to win all four league games in a row.  Marcelino’s second stint at Villarreal has started five games without a loss, but the team’s last two league games have served as a wake-up call for him.

Prior to mounting a strong fight to defeat Rennes 3-2 and take top place in their Europa League group, the 58-year-old’s team was defeated 3-0 by Real Sociedad earlier this month.

Unfortunately, a trip to the Santiago Bernabeu over the weekend produced yet another sad outcome, as Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo, Brahim Diaz, and Luka Modric goals rendered Jose Luis Morales’s effort useless in a crushing 4-1 loss.

Villarreal’s troubles are evident in the fact that they are only three points clear of their opponents on Wednesday, who are currently in 18th place ahead of this week’s schedule, after finishing in the top seven in each of the previous four seasons.

The Yellow Submarine now have the second-worst home record in the league, behind only Granada and Celta, after their nine league games at Estadio de la Ceramica have produced just seven points. Despite this, they can take solace in the fact that their last two home games against Os Celestes have resulted in victories of 1-0.

With their victory against Granada over the weekend, Celta will enter the game on Wednesday in high spirits despite being in the relegation zone and having not won a La Liga game since September 1st against Almeria.

A late red card from Iago Aspas left Celta with 10 men for the final ten minutes of the match, but Jorgen Strand Larsen’s 20th-minute effort proved to be the difference.

Rafael Benitez’s team has now gone four La Liga games without losing, mainly because they have kept three clean sheets in the three league games they have played before Saturday’s victory. Before Saturday, the team had drawn its next three games.

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