Celta de Vigo 4-1 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 3 January 2026
Result
Celta de Vigo 4-1 Valencia
La Liga · Saturday 3 January 2026, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Celta de Vigo 4-1 Valencia: match report
Celta de Vigo beat Valencia 4-1 in La Liga on Saturday 3 January 2026. The half-time score was 1-0.
Borja Iglesias opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Celta de Vigo's goals came from Borja Iglesias (33', penalty), Borja Iglesias (59'), Jones El-Abdellaoui (83') and Hugo Álvarez (90+4'). Valencia scored through Pepelu (70').
Discipline: Celta de Vigo received 1 yellow card; Valencia received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Celta de Vigo were 7th on 23 points from 17 and Valencia 17th on 16 points from 17. Celta de Vigo went on to finish that season 6th with 54 points, and Valencia 9th with 49.
Celta de Vigo lined up in a 3-4-3 and Valencia in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Borja Iglesias of Celta de Vigo (8.6), ahead of Miguel Román (7.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Celta de Vigo wins, 2 draws and 6 for Valencia.
Key events
- 7'Missed penalty · Pepelu
- 33'Penalty goal · Borja Iglesias
- 53'Yellow card · Hugo Duro
- 59'Goal · Borja Iglesias
- 62'Yellow card · Largie Ramazani
- 70'Goal · Pepelu
- 74'Yellow card · José Copete
- 79'Yellow card · Javi Rodríguez
- 83'Goal · Jones El-Abdellaoui
- 90+4'Goal · Hugo Álvarez
Head-to-head
Team news
Celta de Vigo line-up (3-4-3)
Ionuț Radu, Javi Rodríguez, Joseph Aidoo, Marcos Alonso, Óscar Mingueza, Ilaix Moriba, Miguel Román, Sergio Carreira, Bryan Zaragoza, Borja Iglesias, Williot Swedberg
Valencia line-up (3-5-2)
Julen Agirrezabala, Dimitri Foulquier, Mouctar Diakhaby, José Copete, Thierry Correia, Javi Guerra, Pepelu, André Almeida, Jesús Vázquez, Hugo Duro, Lucas Beltrán