{"id":508384,"date":"2026-03-07T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508384\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:30:07","slug":"celta-vigo-1-2-real-madrid-mar-6-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508384\/","title":{"rendered":"Celta Vigo 1-2 Real Madrid (Mar 6, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federico Valverde<\/a>‘s winner four minutes into stoppage time rescued Real Madrid<\/a> as a 2-1 win at Celta Vigo<\/a> prevented their faltering LaLiga title challenge suffering another setback.<\/p>\n

Seeking to bounce back from consecutive defeats to Osasuna<\/a> and Getafe<\/a> which had seen them slip four points behind Barcelona<\/a>, Madrid took the lead after only 11 minutes through Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Borja Iglesias<\/a> equalised 14 minutes later and Celta looked set to hold out for a point before Valverde’s deflected effort at the death.<\/p>\n

Madrid, still without the likes of Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> and Jude Bellingham<\/a> through injury, were after a boost ahead of their Champions League meeting with Manchester City<\/a> on Wednesday but for so long looked like surrendering yet more ground in the title race.<\/p>\n

Celta started brightly with Borja forcing a good low save from Thibaut Courtois<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the other end Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a>, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/a>, fired a shot against a post before Madrid hit the front a minute later.<\/p>\n

\"FedericoFederico Valverde reacts after scoring Real Madrid’s last-gasp winner against Celta Vigo.<\/p>\n

Miguel RIOPA \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Alexander-Arnold played a short corner from the right to Arda G\u00fcler<\/a>, who cut a low pass back to the edge of the area for Tchouam\u00e9ni to whip a first-time effort into the far corner off a post.<\/p>\n

It was the France<\/a> midfielder’s first league goal since April 2024.<\/p>\n

Madrid, though, were unable to build on that platform and were pegged back in the 25th minute, with Alexander-Arnold’s defensive vulnerability exposed.<\/p>\n

Williot Swedberg<\/a> beat the former Liverpool<\/a> man to a long ball down the left, then held him off very easily as he burst into the area before cutting back on to his right foot, looking up and laying a pass off for the onrushing Borja to stroke a finish home.<\/p>\n

Swedberg should have made things worse for the visitors just before the break when he found himself unmarked in the area, but Courtois pulled off a fine save.<\/p>\n

Alvaro Arbeloa’s side slowly started to turn the screw in the second half, Vin\u00edcius bringing a save out of Ionu\u021b Radu.<\/p>\n

Celta survived a VAR review for a penalty in the 71st minute following a handball by Ferran Jutgl\u00e0<\/a>, with Madrid substitute C\u00e9sar Palacios<\/a> instead penalised for a foul beforehand.<\/p>\n

Antonio R\u00fcdiger<\/a> fired high and wide, but Celta almost scored at the other end when Iago Aspas<\/a> cut inside and fired a low show which beat Courtois but came back off a post.<\/p>\n

Real looked out of ideas as the clock ticked into five minutes of added time, but Valverde, helped by a large slice of luck, got them out of trouble.<\/p>\n

Picking up a loose ball on the edge of the area, he let fly, with the shot deflecting off Marcos Alonso<\/a> and wrong-footing the helpless Radu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federico Valverde‘s winner four minutes into stoppage time rescued Real Madrid as a 2-1 win at Celta Vigo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-508384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}