(EFE) Without center back Javi Rodríguez, who will complete a cycle of yellow cards, and captain Iago Aspas, injured in the Cup match against Racing de Santander, Celta will seek to forget their ghosts away from home to attack Vallecas, where they have been years without celebrating a victory.
The Vigo team’s poor away numbers, with only one victory in eight outings, are hindering it in the League, so winning away from home has become an obsession for the celestial locker room.
The Azulón coach, Claudio Giráldez, loses one of his pillars, the young Javi Rodríguez, who could be replaced by Manquillo, already recovered from the injury that forced him to miss the last games of 2024. The other option would be to bet on the young man from the start. Yoel Lago.
Without Iago Aspas, injured in the Cup against Racing Santander, everything indicates that Giráldez will repeat the trident that shone against Real Sociedad, with Pablo Durán and Alfon, scorer in Santander, accompanying Borja Iglesias in the line of attack, leaving the double pivot for Ilaix Moriba and Fran Beltrán.
Rayo Vallecano, which has scored points in its last four league games, hopes to continue its climb in the standings at the expense of a Celta de Vigo that enters the duel without two important players, Javi Rodríguez and Iago Aspas.
The Madrid team faces the match immersed in a good dynamic of results after stringing together six official matches – four in the League and two in the Cup – without losing, so the atmosphere surrounding the locker room is exceptional and full of optimism.
This good run of results has caused Rayo to spend Christmas in a comfortable position in the table with 22 points, seven above relegation and 18 of the 40 in which they place salvation, the true objective of the season.
-For this match, compared to the last League match against Betis, Iñigo Pérez recovers the Ghanaian centre-back Abdul Mumin, who will return to the center of the defense along with the Frenchman Florian Lejeune, but loses the Argentine goalkeeper Augusto Batalla, injured upon returning from the Christmas holidays in training and whose place between the sticks, as in the Cup against Racing de Ferrol, will be occupied by Dani Cárdenas.
The one who will not be on the pitch is the Colombian midfielder James Rodríguez, who is negotiating these days the termination of the contract he has until the end of the season and hopes to change his scene shortly in search of the minutes he has not had at Rayo.
– Probable alignments:
Rayo Vallecano: Cárdenas; Ratiu, Lejeune, Mumin, Chavarría; Pathé Ciss, Valentin; Isi, De Frutos, Álvaro; y Nteka.
Vine Celtic: Guaita; Manquill or Yoel Lake, Starfelt, Mark Alonso; Mingueza, Moriba, Beltran, Hugo Alvarez, Alfon, Pablo Duran and Borja Churches.
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