Celta Vigo vs Real Madrid: Los Blancos Seek to Maintain 100% Record

• Real Madrid will be hoping to continue their winning ways when they face Celta Vigo on Saturday night
• Carlo Ancelotti and his men will travel to Galicia without their star midfield player Casemiro
• Casemiro has joined Manchester United on a reported four-year deal after spending ten years in the Spanish capital

La Liga champions Real Madrid will travel to Galicia to face Celta Vigo as they seek to successive wins at the start of their 2022-23 season.

The Spanish giants notched a 2-1 victory over newly-promoted Almeria last weekend, while Celta drew 2-2 at home to Espanyol.

The Los Blancos have won each of their last four La Liga games with Celta Vigo, while they are unbeaten against the Vigo-based club in Spain's top flight since May 2014.

However, Real Madrid will head into the match without Brazil international Casemiro, who is expected to complete his switch to Manchester United.

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What the managers say

Carlo Ancelotti says the Los Blancos are ready to continue in their winning ways.

"Preparation ahead of Celta? I think we're ready - we're well prepared. Celta have a lot of resources, but we're in a good moment. It's an important game and we want to keep on winning."

"We are ready, we are in a good moment, we want to keep up the team's good dynamic in order to fight and win."

Team News

Celta Vigo

There are no injury concerns for Celta Vigo. Head coach Eduardo Coudet could have a full squad to choose from, which was also the case on the opening weekend of the season.

Real Madrid

Carlo Ancelotti is expected to make changes, especially in defense, from the side that faced Almeria last weekend.

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Both Dani Carvajal and Rodrygo have been ruled out due to injury but Luka Modric, David Alaba and Eder Militao are expected to start.

Aurelin Tchouameni is expected to fill the gap left by Casemiro who is joining Manchester United, while Federico Valverde is expected to play at the right hand side of attack.

Karim Benzema will spearhead the attack with support from Vinicius Junior. Eden Hazard will likely start from the bench.

Predicted Line-ups

Celta Vigo's predicted line-up (4-4-2): Marchesin; Mallo, Aidoo, U Nunez, Galan; Solari, Beltran, O Rodriguez, Cervi; Paciencia, Aspas

Real Madrid's predicted line-up (4-3-3): Courtois; Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Modric, Tchouameni, Kroos; Valverde, Benzema, Vinicius

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