Preview: Celta Vigo vs Freiburg – prediction, team news, lineups

Freiburg will journey to Spain for Thursday’s Europa League quarter-last second leg towards 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.

Match preview

Celta Vigo took the difficult path to the Europa League quarter-finals after having to undergo knockout spherical ties following their sixteenth-place end within the league part.

The Galician outfit noticed off PAOK within the knockout part playoffs, earlier than they knocked out league part winners Lyon through a 3-1 mixture scoreline to arrange 1 / 4-last tie towards Freiburg.

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

Celta then suffered one other 3-0 loss in Sunday’s LaLiga residence conflict towards relegation-threatened Real Oviedo, leaving them in sixth place and two factors adrift of Real Betis in fifth place.

They have now misplaced three of their final 4 aggressive video games, and after sending 12 targets in that interval, they might 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 gained 4 of their six European matches at Balaidos this season, though none of these have come by a 3-purpose scoreline.

In distinction to Celta, Freiburg superior straight to the final 16 after they completed in seventh spot within the league part.

Freiburg then overturned a slim first-leg deficit of their final-16 tie towards Genk, cruising to a 5-1 victory on the Europa-Park Stadion to ease via to the quarter-finals through a 6-1 mixture scoreline.

Julian Schuster‘s costs produced one other dominant residence show within the first leg towards Celta Vigo, as Vincenzo Grifo, Jan-Niklas Beste and Matthias Ginter all acquired on the scoresheet in a 3-0 demolition.

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

Freiburg, who occupy eighth spot within the Bundesliga, will now head to Spain for a European fixture for the primary time since shedding 2-0 to Sevilla within the 2013-14 Europa League Group Stage.

The Breisgau-Brasilianer have gained simply considered one of their 5 Europa League away video games this season (D2, L2), however crucially, each of their defeats have solely come by a one-purpose margin.

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Team News

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

Defender Javi Rodriguez will return to the fold after serving a one-match ban towards Real Oviedo for an accumulation of yellow playing cards.

Giraldez will make a number of modifications to the aspect that began on Sunday, with Rodriguez, Oscar Mingueza, Ilaix Moriba and Borja Iglesias are amongst these 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 continued his return to health with an outing for Freiburg’s Under-23 team, though it’s nonetheless unclear when he will probably be able to return to first-team motion.

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

Celta Vigo potential beginning lineup:

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

Freiburg potential beginning lineup:

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

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

While Celta haven’t been in the very best of type these days, they’ve gained 4 of their six European residence video games this time period.

With that in thoughts, we predict they may prevail in a single day, however we consider they may finally fail of their bid to overturn the sizeable first-leg deficit.

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