Celta de Vigo and Deportivo Alavés will clash on Thursday the 28th of September at 7:00 pm in the 7th week of the La Liga. The match is going to be staged in Vigo at the Estadio de Balaídos. The chosen referee is César Soto Grado.
Celta de Vigo occupies the 18th position in the standings with 4 points. It comes from a 3-2 loss against FC Barcelona in its last match in the La Liga. Thus far, it has won once, drawn once, and lost 4 times.
Deportivo Alavés occupies the 16th position in the standings with 6 points. It comes from a 0-2 loss against Athletic Club in its last match in the La Liga. Up to now, it has won twice and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Celta de Vigo
Celta de Vigo has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 5-3-2 and 5-4-1 (2 times or 33.33% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 5-3-2 (2 times), 5-4-1 (2 times) and 4-4-2 (2 times).
Rafael Benítez Maudes is expected to play against Deportivo Alavés with the following players: Iván Villar, Mihailo Ristić, Carlos Domínguez, Carl Starfelt, Unai Núñez, Óscar Mingueza, Fran Beltrán, Luca De La Torre, Jørgen Strand Larsen, Jonathan Bamba and Iago Aspas.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Celta de Vigo would be 26.27.
Franco Cervi will definitely miss the match.
Deportivo Alavés
Deportivo Alavés has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 (2 times or 33.33% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 4-1-4-1 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Luis García Plaza is expected to play against Celta de Vigo with the following players: Antonio Sivera, Javi López, Aleksandar Sedlar, Abdelkabir Abqar, Andoni Gorosabel, Ander Guevara, Carlos Benavídez, Luis Rioja, Ianis Hagi, Álex Sola and Kike García.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Deportivo Alavés would be 26.82.
Luis García Plaza will probably not be able to employ Rubén Duarte and Antonio Blanco because of injury.
Giuliano Simeone will definitely miss the match.