Preview: Celta Vigo vs Freiburg – prediction, workforce information, lineups

Freiburg will shuttle to Spain for Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final 2nd leg in opposition to Celta Vigo at Balaidos.

The Bundesliga outfit have one foot within the semi-finals after storming to a 3-0 victory in final week’s first leg in Germany.

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Fit preview

Celta Vigo took the difficult path to the Europa League quarter-finals after having to move thru knockout spherical ties following their Sixteenth-place end within the league segment.

The Galician outfit noticed off PAOK within the knockout segment playoffs, sooner than they knocked out league segment winners Lyon by the use of a 3-1 mixture scoreline to arrange a quarter-final tie in opposition to Freiburg.

Alternatively, their hopes of replicating their 2016-17 run to the semi-finals are striking by way of a thread after falling to a heavy 3-0 defeat in Freiburg final week. 

Celta then suffered some other 3-0 loss in Sunday’s LaLiga house conflict in opposition to relegation-threatened Actual Oviedo, leaving them in 6th position and two issues adrift of Actual Betis in 5th place.

They have got now misplaced 3 in their final 4 aggressive video games, and after transport 12 targets in that length, they are going to want to shore up their backline if they’re to have any hopes of staging a dramatic comeback on Thursday.

Claudio Giraldez‘s aspect have received 4 in their six Eu fits at Balaidos this season, even if none of the ones have come by way of a three-goal scoreline.

By contrast to Celta, Freiburg complicated instantly to the final 16 once they completed in 7th spot within the league segment. 

Freiburg then overturned a slender first-leg deficit of their last-16 tie in opposition to Genk, cruising to a 5-1 victory on the Europa-Park Stadion to ease thru to the quarter-finals by the use of a 6-1 mixture scoreline.

Julian Schuster‘s fees produced some other dominant house show within the first leg in opposition to Celta Vigo, as Vincenzo Grifo, Jan-Niklas Beste and Matthias Ginter all were given at the scoresheet in a 3-0 demolition.

They recorded a 2nd consecutive blank sheet in Sunday’s 1-0 away win over Mainz, making it 4 victories from their earlier 5 fits in all competitions (L1).

Freiburg, who occupy 8th spot within the Bundesliga, will now head to Spain for a Eu fixture for the primary time since shedding 2-0 to Sevilla within the 2013-14 Europa League Crew Level.

The Breisgau-Brasilianer have received simply one in all their 5 Europa League away video games this season (D2, L2), however crucially, either one of their defeats have handiest come by way of a one-goal margin. 

Celta Vigo Europa League shape:

D W W D W L

Celta Vigo shape (all competitions):

D W L W L L 

Freiburg Europa League shape:

W W L L W W

Freiburg shape (all competitions):

L W W L W W 

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Crew Information

Celta are anticipated to be with out Carl Starfelt, Mihailo Ristic, Miguel Roman and Hugo Alvarez because of damage. 

Defender Javi Rodriguez will go back to the fold after serving a one-match ban in opposition to Actual Oviedo for an accumulation of yellow playing cards. 

Giraldez will make a number of adjustments to the aspect that began on Sunday, with Rodriguez, Oscar Mingueza, Ilaix Moriba and Borja Iglesias are amongst the ones pushing for beginning spots.

As for the guests, they continue to be with out the injured duo of Patrick Osterhage and Max Rosenfelder.

Daniel-Kofi Kyereh endured his go back to health with an day trip for Freiburg’s Beneath-23 workforce, even if it’s nonetheless unclear when he’ll be able to go back to first-team motion. 

After making adjustments to his aspect on the weekend, Schuster may revert to the lineup that began final week’s first leg.

Celta Vigo conceivable beginning lineup:

Radu; Rodriguez, Aidoo, Alonso; Mingueza, Vecino, Moriba, Carreira; Lopez, Swedberg, Iglesias

Freiburg conceivable beginning lineup:

Atubolu; Kubler, Ginter, Lienhart, Makengo; Eggestein, Manzambi; Beste, Suzuki, Grifo; Matanovic

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We are saying: Celta Vigo 2-1 Freiburg (Freiburg to win 4-2 on mixture)

Whilst Celta have no longer been in the most productive of type of past due, they have got received 4 in their six Eu house video games this time period.

With that during thoughts, we predict they are going to be triumphant at the evening, however we consider they are going to in the end fail of their bid to overturn the sizeable first-leg deficit. 

For information research of the in all probability effects, scorelines and extra for this tournament please click on right here.

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