Celta – Valencia. Forecast and announcement for the match of the Spanish championship

On January 3, Balaidos will host a match of the 18th round of the Spanish Primera, in which Celta will face Valencia.

The match will start at 15:00 Kyiv time.

Sport.ua together with the La Liga betting partner betting announces the upcoming match!

Celta

The team, after several frankly difficult years, finally broke through last season. Giraldes, who, arriving in the course of 2023/2024, started with the usual success in the fight for survival, last season with his wards rose to the seventh final position.

This result allowed us to finally return to the Europa League. And there the Spaniards look quite decent, having won and lost equally, three times each – so far everything is going to the fact that they will go to the playoffs. Even in the domestic arena, at first they did not win for a long time (for the first time at the end of October!), as a result, due to tight competition, they managed to finish 2025 in the same seventh position. And only in the cup, unfortunately, they were eliminated: leading with Albacete in the score, they allowed the opponent to equalize, and then conceded to an outsider in the penalty shootout!

Valencia

The club remained at the level that its rival successfully left now – it is still a chronic fighter for survival in La Liga. In order to avoid the seemingly inevitable fall to Segunda, a year ago they did not hesitate to lay out the retreatants for Carlos Corberan. But not for nothing: the specialist, who returned from England to his homeland, managed to show a confident game in the second round of last season.

In the new season, at least it was good at home: they took seven points in the first three matches at Mestalla. But then the turnover fell, and except that in the cup in December they continued to win, and in the Premier League there were at most draws. Still, it was possible to finish the calendar year above the relegation zone, in the seventeenth position. But at the same time, they collected only sixteen points, less than one per round. And they minimally broke away from Girona due to a 1:1 draw with Mallorca in the last match.

Statistics of personal meetings

Last season, the clubs exchanged victories on their respective fields.

Forecast

Bookmakers believe that Aspas and company will start 2026 successfully. Let’s believe that the hosts will win (coefficient – 2.02).