Las Palmas vs Celta Vigo prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2024-10-04 16:30.
[p]With his team still yet to win a match this season, and propping up La Liga with just three points from eight games, Luis Carrión will be under no illusions that his job as manager of Las Palmas is on the line ahead of this home fixture against Celta Vigo. He saw Los Amarillos concede twice from the 84th minute onwards on Monday to lose 3-1 at Villarreal, but was defiant after the game pledging that his side would “work incredibly hard this week to try to win on Saturday.”[/p]
[p]Although they have not recorded a victory anywhere since February, Las Palmas have accumulated all of their points this season at the Estadio Gran Canaria (D3, L1) and have lost only one of their last six here (D5). But it is three points which the hosts desperately need to kickstart this season and end their winless streak which currently stands at a whopping 22 games (D8, L14).[/p]
[p]Celta Vigo were beaten on their last visit here, but that is their only H2H defeat since October 2016 with the Galicians coming out on top in four of the last five meetings. Celta never seem to struggle in front of goal in this fixture either, hitting four in the last H2H in April to bring their total across the last nine H2Hs to 25 strikes! [/p]
[p]It is the other end of the pitch which should be an area of concern though, as the visitors have leaked 15 goals already this season. Remarkably, manager Claudio Giráldez, who was appointed in March, has overseen just one clean sheet and that was in a home fixture in his second game in charge! So in order to turn around a run of form which has seen Celta take only four points from their last six games (W1, D1, L4), shutting the back door would be a good place to start.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Las Palmas winger Alberto Moleiro has already found the net three times this season, with each of his strikes coming before half-time including two inside the first ten minutes. Iago Aspas moved into the top 20 of La Liga’s all-time goalscorers list with Celta’s equaliser last week – he has scored 2+ goals in three of his seven H2H starts against Las Palmas at this level.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Las Palmas have conceded in the first half in each of their last five games.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]