Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo Preview

Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo

Competition – Spanish Primera

Stadium – Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

Date: 16th March 2019

Kick-off time – 15:15 GMT

Zinedine Zidane will be starting his return to the Bernabeu as the manager of Real Madrid in this game and the home fans should be very positive of a solid start from their team in this game.

Los Blancos have had an underwhelming season that has seen them exit the Champions League, Copa del Rey and fallen 12 points short of their rivals Barcelona in the race for the title.

It was smart for the club’s hierarchy to end the expensive experiment with former youth team manager, Santiago Solari and name Zinedine Zidane as manager again.  They will now be looking to at least finish behind Barcelona.

Celta Vigo are set to drop down divisions in the Spanish game if their form doesn’t drastically improve at this stage of the season.

They have been a stable team in La Liga over the last few seasons but this season has been as tough as it can get and they come into this game having collected just 25 points all season and in 18th position.

However, the close nature of things at the bottom of La Liga table means that they can go to 16th in the league table with a win here if other results go their way, but that seems like an almost mission impossible.

A defeat for them and a win for Rayo Vallencano would see them fall down to 19th position as well which is frightening for Vigo fans.

Bookmakers have priced Real Madrid up as heavy odds-on favourites to come out on top in this game while goal markets point to a high-scoring game as over 3.5 goals is currently trading odds-on.

Karim Benzema is clear favourite to score the opening goal of the game.

This match gets underway at 15:15 BST.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera:

March 3, 2025
Villarreal 21:00 Espanyol
March 8, 2025
Barcelona 21:00 Osasuna
March 14, 2025
Las Palmas 21:00 Alaves
March 15, 2025
Real Valladolid 14:00 Celta Vigo
Mallorca 16:15 Espanyol
Villarreal 18:30 Real Madrid
Girona 21:00 Valencia
March 16, 2025
Leganes 14:00 Real Betis
Sevilla 16:15 Athletic Bilbao
Rayo Vallecano 18:30 Real Sociedad
Osasuna 18:30 Getafe
Atlético de Madrid 21:00 Barcelona
March 28, 2025
Athletic Bilbao 21:00 Osasuna
March 29, 2025
Real Sociedad 14:00 Real Valladolid
Espanyol 16:15 Atlético de Madrid
Alaves 18:30 Rayo Vallecano
Real Madrid 21:00 Leganes

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Barcelona 26 18 3 5 71 25 +46 57
2 Real Madrid 27 17 6 4 57 26 +31 57
3 Atlético de Madrid 27 16 8 3 44 18 +26 56
4 Athletic Bilbao 27 13 10 4 45 24 +21 49
5 Villarreal 26 12 8 6 48 36 +12 44
6 Real Betis 27 11 8 8 35 33 +2 41
7 Mallorca 27 10 7 10 26 33 -7 37
8 Rayo Vallecano 27 9 9 9 29 29 +0 36
9 Celta Vigo 27 10 6 11 40 41 -1 36
10 Sevilla 27 9 9 9 32 36 -4 36
11 Real Sociedad 27 10 4 13 23 28 -5 34
12 Getafe 27 8 9 10 23 22 +1 33
13 Girona 27 9 6 12 35 40 -5 33
14 Osasuna 26 7 12 7 32 37 -5 33
15 Espanyol 26 7 7 12 25 37 -12 28
16 Valencia 27 6 9 12 30 45 -15 27
17 Leganes 27 6 9 12 24 40 -16 27
18 Alaves 27 6 8 13 30 40 -10 26
19 Las Palmas 27 6 6 15 30 45 -15 24
20 Real Valladolid 27 4 4 19 18 62 -44 16

Spanish Primera Results

March 10, 2025
Espanyol 1 - 1 Girona
March 9, 2025
Real Sociedad 0 - 1 Sevilla
Real Betis 1 - 0 Las Palmas
Athletic Bilbao 1 - 1 Mallorca
Real Madrid 2 - 1 Rayo Vallecano
Getafe 2 - 1 Atlético de Madrid
March 8, 2025
Valencia 2 - 1 Real Valladolid
Alaves 1 - 0 Villarreal
Celta Vigo 2 - 1 Leganes
March 2, 2025
Osasuna 3 - 3 Valencia
Mallorca 1 - 1 Alaves
Barcelona 4 - 0 Real Sociedad
Leganes 1 - 0 Getafe
March 1, 2025
Atlético de Madrid 1 - 0 Athletic Bilbao
Real Betis 2 - 1 Real Madrid
Rayo Vallecano 1 - 1 Sevilla
Girona 2 - 2 Celta Vigo
February 28, 2025
Real Valladolid 1 - 1 Las Palmas
February 24, 2025
Sevilla 1 - 1 Mallorca

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