📏 Form Guide

Celta Vigo

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Celta Vigo will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-1 La Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Real Betis.

In that match, Celta Vigo managed 53% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Celta Vigo was Jorgen Strand Larsen (91'). Real Betis got 15 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Juan Miranda (53') and Nabil Fekir (83') scored for Real Betis.

In their prior 6 fixtures, Claudio Giráldez's Celta Vigo have scored a combined total of 6 times giving them an average number of goals per match equal to 1.

Heading into this contest, Celta Vigo are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

UD Las Palmas

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After a losing effort in their last game against Sevilla in La Liga competition, UD Las Palmas and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, UD Las Palmas had 63% possession and 5 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Sevilla had 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Youssef En-Nesyri (43') and Dodi Lukebakio (93') scored for Sevilla.

For 5 of the prior 6 clashes involving UD Las Palmas, a comparatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game within that spell works out to a mere 2.33, with the average goals for Las Palmas standing at 0.67. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

Analysis of their past results shows that UD Las Palmas:

• haven't won against Celta Vigo in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 4 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes going back to 31/01/2016 shows that Celta Vigo have won 3 of these and UD Las Palmas 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 26 overall at an average of 4.33 goals per meeting.

The last league contest between the two was La Liga match day 8 on 02/10/2023 when the final score was UD Las Palmas 2-1 Celta Vigo.

That day, UD Las Palmas managed 73% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Goals were scored by Jonathan Viera (84') and Marc Cardona (97').

On the other side, Celta Vigo got 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Tasos Douvikas (67') was the scorer.

The referee was Javier Alberola Rojas.

🗞️ Team News: Celta Vigo

The Celta Vigo boss Claudio Giráldez has no fitness worries at all before this match owing to a fully injury-free group available to choose from.

We think that Os Celestes could use a 5-3-2 system for this game, beginning the first half with Vicente Guaita, Oscar Mingueza, Jailson, Carlos Dominguez, Javier Manquillo, Hugo Alvarez, Hugo Sotelo, Fran Beltran, Jonathan Bamba, Iago Aspas and J. Strand Larsen.

ℹ️ Team News: UD Las Palmas

With a completely healthy squad available to choose from, the UD Las Palmas manager Francisco García Pimienta has no fitness concerns whatsoever before this match.

From our viewpoint, UD Las Palmas might make use of a 4-3-3 system, settling for Alvaro Valles, Alvaro Lemos, Alex Suarez, Mika Marmol, Sergi Cardona, Javier Munoz, Maximo Perrone, Kirian Rodriguez, Munir El Haddadi, Sandro Ramirez and Alberto Moleiro.

💡 Prediction

We feel that UD Las Palmas have enough to find the back of the net against this Celta Vigo side, but that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re predicting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Celta Vigo by the conclusion of the game. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 11:06 20/04/2024