Celta Vigo vs Las Palmas Preview: Team News & Prediction
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Celta Vigo and Las Palmas have experienced very different campaigns with Celta pushing for European qualification and Las Palmas once again battling against relegation this season.
Kick-off date/time: Monday 31st March, 2025: UK – 8:00pm / US ET – 3:00pm / US PT – 12:00pm
How to watch on TV: UK – Premier Sports / US – ESPN have the exclusive rights to La Liga games in the USA, so Celta Vigo vs Las Palmas may be televised on one of their affiliated channels
How to watch online: UK – Premier Sports / US – ESPN+
Celta Vigo Preview: Galician entertainment
Under the management of former B team coach Claudio Giraldez, Celta Vigo has his entertaining Galician side sitting tucked inside the top eight and the potential European spots ahead of the 29th match day of the 2024/25 La Liga campaign.
The home team have been entertaining to watch with their 28 matches consisting of 82 goals. They come into this one on the back of a 1-0 defeat of Real Valladolid a couple of weeks ago to mean they are now unbeaten in their last six matches in La Liga.
Las Palmas Preview: Canarian strugglers
In October, Las Palmas were still winless but appointed former Granada manager Diego Martinez and they managed to massively improve but since the turn of the year, the Canary Islanders have once again collapsed into the bottom three and the relegation places.
The visitors most recently did score twice in second-half stoppage-time to earn themselves a 2-2 draw at home to fellow strugglers Deportivo Alaves at Estadio Gran Canaria a couple of weeks ago. They are now winless in their last ten matches in La Liga, all in 2025.
Celta Vigo Team News: Oscar Mingueza suspension
Former Barcelona defender and Spain international Oscar Mingueza is unavailable for this weekend’s visit of Las Palmas to Balaidos as he is missing through suspension, whilst Williot Swedberg is sidelined through injury.
Predicted XI (3-4-3): Vicente Guaita; Javi Rodriguez, Starfelt, Marcos Alonso; Sergio Carreira, Fran Beltran, Hugo Sotelo, Ristic; Iago Aspas, Borja Iglesias, Pablo Duran
Unavailable: Oscar Mingueza (Suspended), Swedberg (Injured)
Questionable:
Las Palmas Team News: Nothing new
Las Palmas are fortunate to have no fresh injury concerns or suspension issues with just a couple of issues for this one as Kirian Rodriguez remains unavailable due to illness, whilst winter transfer window signing Andy Pelmard, on loan from Clermont, remains a doubt.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Cillessen; Alex Suarez, Juanma Herzog, McKenna, Alex Munoz; Stefan Bajcetic, Jose Campana; Sandro, Javier Munoz, Alberto Moleiro; Silva
Unavailable: Kirian Rodriguez (Illness)
Questionable: Pelmard (Injured)
Celta Vigo vs Las Palmas Prediction
Claudio Giraldez took over from Rafa Benitez around about this time last year with the intention to not only propel them away from relegation trouble but also to improve the style of football that Celta play. A year later, they are challenging for Europe with one of the more entertaining ways of playing in Spain. They face a Las Palmas side that will hope to have been able to simply regroup over the international break but Celta, especially at Balaidos, are the firm favourites for this one.
Celta Vigo vs Las Palmas Tip: Double chance – Celta to win or draw