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Alaves vs Celta Vigo

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium: Mendizorroza

Date: 27th January 2025

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Alaves will look to make it two wins in a row when they welcome Celta Vigo to the Estadio Mendizorrotza this Monday.

The relegation-threatened Alaves ended their seven-game winless La Liga run with a 3-1 win over Betis in the previous round and so they come into this tie aiming to record back-to-back league wins for the first time since September to keep their survival push going.

Whilst they remained perilously close to the drop zone pre-round, Alaves do have an identical points haul to this stage of last season when they eventually beat the drop. But despite their recent success, the hosts remain winless in their last three home games (D2, L1) and are at risk of failing to win four straight top-flight home games for the first time since 2022.

Meanwhile, Celta Vigo will be desperate to end a run of two straight losses when they travel to Vitoria-Gasteiz on Monday night.

Like their hosts, the visitors are also relegation threatened after taking 24 points from their opening 20 games. They sit four points above Alaves and could yet find themselves in a fight for survival.

Having lost their last two league games, a third straight top-flight defeat in succession would be Celta’s worst streak since 2022/23, although, despite their recent failures, Celta remains seven points better off than they were at the same stage last season.

That said, playing on a Monday often ends in frustration for Celta who recorded stalemates in most of their last ten such La Liga matches (W1, D6, L3). The visitors are also winless in their last six away trips to sides from the Basque Country (D2, L4), the last three of which saw Celta lose whilst conceding at least three goals.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera Liga:

February 21, 2025
Celta Vigo 21:00 Osasuna
February 22, 2025
Alaves 14:00 Espanyol
Rayo Vallecano 16:15 Villarreal
Valencia 18:30 Atlético de Madrid
Las Palmas 21:00 Barcelona
February 23, 2025
Athletic Bilbao 14:00 Real Valladolid
Real Madrid 16:15 Girona
Getafe 18:30 Real Betis
Real Sociedad 21:00 Leganes
February 24, 2025
Sevilla 21:00 Mallorca
February 28, 2025
Real Valladolid 21:00 Las Palmas
March 1, 2025
Girona 14:00 Celta Vigo
Rayo Vallecano 16:15 Sevilla
Barcelona 18:30 Real Sociedad
Atlético de Madrid 21:00 Athletic Bilbao
March 2, 2025
Leganes 14:00 Getafe
Real Betis 16:15 Real Madrid
Mallorca 18:30 Alaves
Osasuna 21:00 Valencia
March 3, 2025
Villarreal 21:00 Espanyol

Spanish Primera Liga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Barcelona 24 16 3 5 65 25 +40 51
2 Real Madrid 24 15 6 3 52 23 +29 51
3 Atlético de Madrid 24 14 8 2 39 16 +23 50
4 Athletic Bilbao 24 12 9 3 37 21 +16 45
5 Villarreal 24 11 8 5 47 35 +12 41
6 Rayo Vallecano 24 9 8 7 27 25 +2 35
7 Mallorca 24 10 4 10 23 30 -7 34
8 Real Betis 24 8 8 8 30 31 -1 32
9 Osasuna 24 7 11 6 29 33 -4 32
10 Girona 24 9 4 11 32 35 -3 31
11 Real Sociedad 24 9 4 11 20 23 -3 31
12 Sevilla 24 8 7 9 29 34 -5 31
13 Getafe 24 7 9 8 20 18 +2 30
14 Celta Vigo 24 8 5 11 35 38 -3 29
15 Espanyol 24 6 6 12 23 36 -13 24
16 Leganes 24 5 9 10 22 35 -13 24
17 Las Palmas 24 6 5 13 29 41 -12 23
18 Valencia 24 5 8 11 25 38 -13 23
19 Alaves 24 5 7 12 28 38 -10 22
20 Real Valladolid 24 4 3 17 15 52 -37 15

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