Barcelona vs Celta Vigo Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Barcelona

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Barcelona will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 5-0 Champions League success over Antwerp.

In that game, Barcelona managed 70% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. For Barcelona, goals were scored by João Félix (11', 66'), Robert Lewandowski (19') and Gavi (54'). Royal Antwerp had 3 shots on goal with 1 on target. Jelle Bataille (22' Own goal) was the scorer for Antwerp.

Their more recent scorelines reveal that much respect should be given to the Barcelona rearguard. Barcelona have been stingy, seeing the total number of goals that have gone in at their end during their past 6 matches standing at 4. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Ahead of this meeting, Barcelona haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Celta Vigo

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Mallorca in La Liga competition, Celta Vigo will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Celta Vigo had 61% possession and 16 shots at goal with 4 on target. Mallorca had 7 shots on goal with 4 on target. Vedat Muriqi (85') was the scorer for Mallorca.

The stats don’t lie, and Celta Vigo have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in all. Defensively, Celta Vigo have some weaknesses to address.

Looking at their past form shows that Celta Vigo:

• have left without a victory over Barcelona in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 01/10/2020 tells us that Barcelona have won 3 of them and Celta Vigo 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

An aggregate of 20 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 12 of them from Barça and 8 being from Os Celestes. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The last league game between the two was La Liga match day 38 on 04/06/2023 when the final score was Celta Vigo 2-1 Barcelona.

On that day, Celta Vigo managed 28% possession and 12 shots at goal with 9 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Gabri Veiga (42', 65').

At the other end, Barcelona got 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Ansu Fati (79') scored.

The match was refereed by Juan Luis Pulido Santana.

🗞️ Team News: Barcelona

Looking at personnel, there is just a single fitness concern for the Barcelona boss Xavi Hernández to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed squad. Pedri (Hamstring Injury) misses out.

It seems likely that Barça look set to make use of the 4-3-3 system for this game, handing starts to M. ter Stegen, Joao Cancelo, Jules Kounde, Andreas Christensen, Marcos Alonso, Frenkie de Jong, Oriol Romeu, Gavi, Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski and Joao Felix.

🗞️ Team News: Celta Vigo

Thanks to a completely injury-free group available to choose from, the Celta Vigo boss Rafael Benítez has zero fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash.

We’re of the thinking that Os Celestes could decide to make use of a 5-3-2 system, giving starts to Ivan Villar, Unai Nunez, Carl Starfelt, Carlos Dominguez, Oscar Mingueza, Mihailo Ristic, Luca de la Torre, Fran Beltran, Jonathan Bamba, Iago Aspas and J. Strand Larsen.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Celta Vigo will likely be able to break down this Barcelona lineup, however it is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re expecting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Barcelona at full-time. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 00:58 19/09/2023