Valladolid vs Celta Vigo prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2025-03-14 13:00.
[p]Saturday’s La Liga action gets underway with rock-bottom Real Valladolid, whose impending return to the Segunda División appears more certain by the week. Valladolid were beaten 2-1 by Valencia in the previous round – their seventh La Liga defeat across the last eight rounds (D1) – which subsequently left them 11 points adrift of safety.[/p]
[p]The recent appointment of Álvaro Rubio seems to have done little for Valladolid (D1, L2), who are at least ten points worse off than at this stage of their last six top-flight seasons. Should they post a strong finish to the campaign, the foundation of that would likely come at home where Valladolid have accumulated 13 of their paltry 16-point haul (W3, D4, L6), although their home league record against top-half sides is a more modest W1, D1, L6. [/p]
[p]Coming from behind to avoid defeat in their previous two outings (W1, D1), Celta Vigo travel here on the back of a five-game unbeaten league run (W3, D2) which has kept them in contention for a late push for the European places. Striking back from adversity has been a hallmark of the Sky Blues’ season so far, as they’ve impressively picked up a La Liga-high 16 points when conceding first (W4, D4, L10), which is handy considering only Valladolid (20) have conceded first more often than Celta in La Liga this season (18).[/p]
[p]Only two of those 16 points when going 1-0 down were picked up away from home (D2, L7), which has contributed to Celta being the side with the largest difference between average points per game at home (2.07) and away (0.54). Even still, Celta start as favourites but they don’t always carry that tag well, losing three of four such away league games this term (W1). [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Juanmi Latasa has scored his first two La Liga goals for Valladolid across his last two appearances, although he is now on a run of four scoring games in the top-flight without winning (D2, L2). Now without a goal in his last two games, Celta veteran Iago Aspas may reignite his scoring season against a side he has ten direct goal contributions in 12 H2Hs against (G8, A2). [/p]
[p]Hot stat: A joint league-high 19 of Celta Vigo’s 27 league games saw both teams score.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Matthew Billon[/i][/p]