Real Madrid will be looking to maintain their 100% start to La Liga as they travel to the Estadio de Balaidos for a Friday night clash with Celta Vigo. The hosts are in search of their first win in the competition and with Real looking confident early in the campaign, an away win looks to be on the cards.
Celta Vigo picked up their first point of the season as they held Real Sociedad to a 1-1 draw last weekend. They fell behind midway through the first half and trailed for much of the encounter before Oscar Mingueza struck a dramatic injury-time equaliser.
The result means Celta Vigo are still winless this season having begun their campaign with a 2-0 home defeat to Osasuna. It is looking eerily like last season’s start where they failed to win their opening two fixtures and ultimately finished in the bottom half of
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The defeat to Osasuna is an annoying extension of last season’s struggles at the Estadio Balaidos. Rafael Benitez’s men have won just two of their last seven La Liga home matches while one of their early defeats was a 4-1 hammering at home to Real Madrid on the second weekend of the previous campaign.
