Rayo Vallecano de Madrid 3-0 RC Celta de Vigo: Primera Division Match Report, 31 October 2026

Celta de Vigo's away record before this match read four games, four draws and one goal conceded: 0-0 at Valencia, 0-0 at Real Sociedad, 1-1 at Getafe, 0-0 at Elche. They conceded three at Vallecas: Rayo Vallecano de Madrid 3-0 RC Celta de Vigo.

Celta's record gave no hint of it. They came in ninth on twelve points from ten, with a goal difference of plus three and seven goals conceded all season, unbeaten in seven league matches since a 0-2 home defeat by Athletic Club at the end of August. Six draws in ten told the same story as the away record: a side that was hard to beat and did not score much, ten goals in ten.

Rayo were seventeenth on nine points from nine games, with twenty conceded and no clean sheet all season. Their last league win had been 2-1 against Espanyol on 15 September, and their previous match at Vallecas had ended in a 0-3 defeat by Elche. A week later the same ground produced the same score the other way round, and Rayo's first clean sheet of the season.

One goal separated the sides at the interval, and the second half settled it: Rayo won that half 2-0, and Celta had not conceded twice in any half away from home before this. In January, Celta beat Rayo 3-0 at Balaídos. This was the same scoreline handed back.

The result put the clubs level on twelve points. Rayo got there from ten games, with a goal difference that improved from minus eight to minus five; Celta from eleven, with theirs falling from plus three to zero. Rayo still have a game in hand on them.

For Rayo, who had started the day seventeenth, three points and a clean sheet do not change the basic picture of the season: fifteen goals scored, twenty conceded, three wins in ten. Eighth place and fifty points last season is the yardstick, and twelve from ten is a little behind that rate. The encouraging figure is at home, where Rayo have now won three of five and taken ten of their twelve points.

For Celta, the unbeaten run ends at seven, in their heaviest defeat of the season, and the defence that underpinned it has now conceded ten in eleven. Twelve from eleven, built on six draws, is well short of the pace that took them to sixth and fifty-four points last season. Only two of those eleven matches have been won.

We did not preview it — the site was not being updated when it was played, on the last Saturday of October.