📏 Form Guide

Villarreal

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Villarreal will play in this fixture following on from a 1-1 La Liga draw against Real Oviedo.

In that game, Villarreal managed 42% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Villarreal was Nicolas Pépé (13'). For their opponents, Real Oviedo got 16 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Ilyas Chaira (69') was the scorer for Real Oviedo.

Villarreal have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, but they have also managed to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Villarreal have conceded in 6 of them as well as getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches.

Their past results show that Villarreal:

• haven't won against Celta Vigo in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 4 home league matches.

Celta Vigo

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After a losing effort in their last game against Barcelona in La Liga action, Celta Vigo will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Celta Vigo managed 39% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. At the other end, Barcelona had 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Lamine Yamal (40') scored for Barcelona.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games involving Celta Vigo, three or more goals have gone in. The average goals scored per game within that time is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by Celta Vigo being 1.17. Such a trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

Heading into this contest, Celta Vigo have not won against Villarreal when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes going back to 30/04/2023 shows that Villarreal have won 3 of these and Celta Vigo 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 26 in all which averages out at 4.33 goals per meeting.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was La Liga match day 3 on 31/08/2025 when the final score was Celta Vigo 1-1 Villarreal.

On that occasion, Celta Vigo managed 65% possession and 10 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Iglesias (94').

Villarreal got 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Nicolas Pépé (53') scored.

The match was refereed by Alejandro Quintero González.

🗞️ Team News: Villarreal

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the sole fitness concern for the Villarreal boss Marcelino García Toral to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group. Juan Foyth (Achilles tendon rupture) will miss out.

It’s our opinion that El Submarino Amarillo look set to opt for a 4-4-2 formation for this game featuring Arnau Tenas, Rafa Marin, Pau Navarro, Renato Veiga, Sergi Cardona, Nicolas Pepe, Pape Gueye, Daniel Parejo, Alfon Gonzalez, Georges Mikautadze and Tani Oluwaseyi.

🗞️ Team News: Celta Vigo

We believe Os Celestes will likely make use of a 3-4-3 lineup, starting Ionut Andrei Radu, Javi Rodriguez, Yoel Lago, Marcos Alonso, Javi Rueda, Fer Lopez, Ilaix Moriba, Sergio Carreira, Pablo Duran, Ferran Jutgla and Hugo Alvarez.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Celta Vigo are dangerous enough to score against this Villarreal side, but that possibly won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re going for a 2-1 win for Villarreal at the end of this one. It should be a decent one.

Victor Martins, 06:02 26/04/2026