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The market rates Celta Vigo at 27%, so we are 4 points higher than the price implies.
Our own numbers, from the goal rates the model fits for each side.
Our score is the one that fits the goals we expect, so it is not always the biggest percentage above: the single likeliest score is usually a low scoring draw, and even that lands only about 12% of the time. This is the model's working, not a tip. The bets it leads to are above.
How this scoreline is calculated
Celta Vigo
Form comparisonJuventus
Where those opponents sat in the table: strong means they averaged roughly the top 40%, weak roughly the bottom 40%, mixed in between.
Opposition faced: Celta Vigo mixed, Juventus weakThe form score weights every result and every goal by where the opponent sat in the table, so five wins over the bottom of the table score below five over the top.
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- 19 Sept 2026vsRacing Santander5-0W
- 16 Sept 2026vsOmonia Nicosia1-0L
- 13 Sept 2026vsMalaga1-1D
- 07 Sept 2026vsGetafe1-1D
- 11 Oct 2026vsCagliari1-1D
- 02 Oct 2026vsCremonese0-1L
- 20 Sept 2026vsAtalanta2-0W
- 17 Sept 2026vsNEC Nijmegen5-0W
- 13 Sept 2026vsSassuolo3-2L
Celta Vigo vs Juventus: form and season numbers
Celta Vigo take a form score of 5.0 out of 10 into this Europa League fixture, against 6.0 for Juventus. Celta Vigo have 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat in their last 5, while Juventus have 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats in theirs. Across the season Celta Vigo average 0.9 goals scored and 0.8 conceded per game, Juventus 1.7 and 0.8. Celta Vigo have kept a clean sheet in 40% of their matches this season, Juventus in 50%. Celta Vigo sit 25th on 0 points, Juventus 1st on 3.
Form, head-to-head and season statistics are free to read. The model's predictions for this fixture are in the cards above.
Celta Vigo vs Juventus prediction: Juventus arrive in sharper scoring form
A single round of this Europa League phase has already separated these two sides on the table, and little in their recent numbers suggests that gap closes here. Juventus sit top with 3 points and a goal difference of plus 5 after a 5-0 opening win, while Celta Vigo sit 25th with none, having shipped a 0-1 defeat away to Omonia Nicosia in their only outing so far. That 24-place, 3-point gulf described in the table is the starkest marker in this brief, and the underlying form bands narrow it only slightly: both sides are rated steady, with just a slight edge to Juventus.
Celta Vigo's last 10 in all competitions reads W2 D5 L3, with 13 scored and 9 conceded, and the pattern is one of grinding draws rather than control. Four of those 10 matches finished level, including back to back 1-1 and 0-0 results against Getafe and Real Sociedad either side of a flat 0-0 at Valencia, and the Europa League trip to Omonia produced no goals for the home side either. The one eye catching result, a 5-0 home win over Racing Santander on 19 September, sits alongside heavier concerns: Celta Vigo have scored in 6 of those 10 games but kept only 3 clean sheets, and the season profile of 0.63 expected goals per game with a 40 percent rate of failing to score points to a side that creates sparingly, backed up by just 3.9 shots on target per match from an 11.4 shot total.
Juventus bring a heavier scoring habit into this one. Their last 10 across all competitions shows W6 D1 L3, 17 scored and just 7 conceded, with goals in 9 of those 10 outings and clean sheets in 6. The competitive form is more convincing than the spread suggests: a 2-0 home win over Atalanta, a 5-0 demolition of NEC Nijmegen in the Europa League, and a 1-0 away win at Frosinone all sit either side of an away defeat at Sassuolo and a draw with AC Milan, with the only truly loose result, a 0-1 loss to Cremonese, coming in a club friendly on 2 October that carries little weight. The season profile backs the eye test, with 16.3 shots and 6 on target per game, a 1.49 expected goals mark more than double Celta Vigo's figure, and a clean sheet in 60 percent of matches against a failure to score rate of just 10 percent.
Put together, this looks like a clear mismatch in attacking output rather than an even contest. Celta Vigo's tendency to draw rather than lose suggests they will not simply be overrun, and three of their last four competitive results have been draws, but their inability to create clearly, allied to a defence that has already conceded in their Europa League opener, hands Juventus the platform to control proceedings. Expect Juventus to dominate territory and shots, Celta Vigo to rely on resilience rather than threat, and a scoreline shaped more by Juventus's efficiency in front of goal than by anything Celta Vigo manufacture at the other end.
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