📊 Form Guide

Celta Vigo

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Celta Vigo, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 La Liga victory against Sevilla.

In that match, Celta Vigo managed 65% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For Celta Vigo, goals were scored by Carles Pérez (72') and Jorgen Strand Larsen (78'). On the other side, Sevilla had 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Youssef En-Nesyri (18') scored for Sevilla.

Fixtures involving Celta Vigo have proved to be absorbing encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum of 20 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 8 of these belonging to Celta Vigo.

Heading into this contest, Celta Vigo have not lost a league tie with Rayo Vallecano in their last 6 matches.

Rayo Vallecano

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Rayo Vallecano will come into the match after a 2-0 La Liga win versus Real Betis in their most recent match.

In that match, Rayo Vallecano had 39% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Rayo Vallecano, the goals were scored by Florian Lejeune (40') and Sergio Camello (78'). On the other side, Real Betis got 11 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Rayo Vallecano have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals in all. Defensively, Rayo Vallecano could really do with shoring things up. Let’s find out if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Leading up to this clash, Rayo Vallecano:

• haven't won against Celta Vigo when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• have not won away from home in their last 5 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings dating back to 18/05/2019 shows us that Celta Vigo have won 2 of these and Rayo Vallecano 0, with the tally of drawn results standing at 4.

An aggregate of 9 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 7 for Os Celestes and 2 coming from Franjirrojos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.5.

The last league encounter between these clubs was La Liga match day 16 on 11/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Rayo Vallecano 0-0 Celta Vigo.

On that day, Rayo Vallecano managed 63% possession and 17 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

Celta Vigo had 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Víctor García Verdura.

🗞️ Team News: Celta Vigo

The Celta Vigo boss Claudio Giráldez has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever before this game thanks to a fully healthy squad available to select from.

📋 Team News: Rayo Vallecano

Thanks to a fully injury-free group available to select from, the Rayo Vallecano boss Iñigo Pérez doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Rayo Vallecano will have a tough ask to put one past this Celta Vigo lineup who we reckon should score one, at least.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a highly competitive game with a 1-0 victory for Celta Vigo after 90 minutes.

Hoping for a good game.

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Lucas Pereira, 11:03 31/03/2024