Celta Vigo vs FC Barcelona Prediction, Preview, Team News, and Lineups | La Liga, November 23, 2024

Celta Vigo vs Barcelona Preview

• Tournament: LaLiga
• Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024
• Time: 8:00 pm GMT
• Venue: Estadio de Balaídos

The La Liga 2024/25 action resumes after the November International breaks this weekend with Gameweek 14 fixtures, as league leaders FC Barcelona visits RC Celta Vigo at Estadio de Balaídos on Saturday.

At Present, the Sky Blues are 11th in La Liga standings accumulating 17 points in 13 matches, with 5 wins and 2 draws. They have suffered 6 league losses in the 2024/25 La Liga campaign. Meanwhile, Hansi Flick’s Blaugrana are sitting at the top of the League’s points table amassing 33 points in 13 league outings. They hold 6 point lead over arch-rivals Real Madrid who are placed second.

Before the International break, Celta Vigo was forced to share the spoils against Real Betis in a 2-2 draw, following an injury-time equaliser from Betis’s defender Marc Bartra. Whereas, Barca saw their second league defeat of the season after a slim 1-0 loss to Real Sociedad away and subsequently ended their domestic winning streak. Both the teams will eye to get back to the winning ways in Vigo

Celta Vigo Team News

The hosts, Celta Vigo will miss the service of US International midfielder Luca de la Torre and Brazilian defensive midfielder Jailson as both are still unavailable for selection. Besides that, Claudio Giráldez González has no other injury concerns in his squad and all the players are fit for the home fixtures after a week of preparation amid International breaks.

FC Barcelona Team News

Barca boss Hansi Flick will be resting his first-team stars who have returned from national team duty with many of those names could start from the bench. Flick will not be risking Robert Lewadnsowki and the Spanish Prodigy Lamine Yamal, who is doubtful of scope for the weekend trip, following the injury he picked up before the International window.

Reportedly, Héctor Fort and Eric García are set to return for the Celta Vigo clash, while Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres and Ronald Araujo remain on the sidelines with recovery. The Danish international defender Andreas Christensen is ruled out for two months due to an Achilles injury.

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Predicted Lineups

Celta Vigo Predicted Lineup (5-4-1)

Goalkeeper: Vicente Guita

Defenders: Oscar Mingueza, Carl Starfelt, Marcos Alonso, Javi Rodriguez, Mihailo Ristic

Midfielders: Hugo Sotelo, Fran Beltran, Jonathan Bamba, Iago Aspas

Forward:, Borja Iglesias

FC Barcelona Predicted Lineup (4-2-3-1)

Goalkeeper: Inaki Pena

Defenders: Jules Kounde, Iñigo Martínez, Pau Cubarsi, Alejandro Balde

Midfielders: Marc Casado, Frenkie de Jong; Fermin Lopez, Pedri, Raphinha

Forward: Dani Olmo

Celta Vigo vs FC Barcelona Head to Head Record

Over the course of history, these two Spanish clubs have played a staggering 132 encounters against each other. With particularly focussing on La Liga, they have met 116 times in which the Catalans have won the most number of matches 73 and Vigo have 28 victories over Barca in the Spanish first division. Former Barca talisman Lionel Messi has the most number of goals in this set of fixtures scoring 14 goals. In the previous, meeting The Catalans claimed a close 2-1 win over the hosts in the 2023/24 season.

Recent head-to-head results between Celta Vigo and FC Barcelona

Key Players to Watch in Celta Vigo vs FC Barcelona

Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo)

Celta de Vigo talismanic captain Iago Aspas is the joint top goalscorer for the Sky Blues in this campaign, the37-year-old forward has been prominently playing as the Right winger and managed to score 4 goals and provided 3 assists taking his goal involvement tally to 7 in a total of 12 league outings. Additionally, Aspas is the second top scorer in the Celta Vigo and Barca rivalry only behind Messi with 11 goals while also assisting on 5 occasions against the Blaugrana in 21 appearances over the years

Raphinha (Barcelona)

Brazilian International, Raphinha is enjoying the best-ever start to his campaign at Barcelona already racking up an incredible 32-goal contribution that includes 12 goals and 10 assists in 17 appearances across all competitions this term. The 27-year-old has showcased his playmaking and goal-scoring ability and ranks second top scorer with 7 goals behind Robert Lewandowski. The winger is in sensational form for both club and country and will look to add more goals and assists to his tally in the away outing.

Celta Vigo vs FC Barcelona Prediction

Despite the fact that Flick-led Barcelona have a long string of injuries to their squad and will be without their key players against Celta. This season, they have also struggled a bit in away games which indicates the match will surely be a close one. However, Barcelona under its new boss are thrived with Flick taking out the best of his young squad mixed with experienced figures. The visitors should be taking away all three points courtesy of a narrow win at Balaídos.

Predicted Score: Celta Vigo 1-2 FC Barcelona

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