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Celta Vigo beats Valencia to keep European hopes alive

Celta Vigo secured a 3-2 victory away to Valencia in the 30th round of the Spanish La Liga. This win helps Celta maintain their sixth-place position and their fight for a UEFA Conference League spot.


Celta Vigo beats Valencia to keep European hopes alive

Being thirteenth with 35 points, 'Celta' is far from international competitions, nine points away, although they cannot lose sight of the fight for survival, being only six points above Elche, the best team in the relegation zone. In the rest of the round's matches, Getafe defeated Athletic Club Bilbao 2-0 to move up to eighth place, Osasuna finished ninth after a 1-1 draw with Alavés, and a key relegation battle took place: Real Oviedo, last in the table, narrowly beat Sevilla, who are seventeenth, two points from the relegation zone and have accumulated only one win in their last 9 matches. The home team took the lead at 12 minutes, when Argentine Guido Rodríguez received the ball on the left edge of the opponent's area and fired a first-time shot with the outside of his foot, which went in under the right post of goalkeeper Ionut Radu. The opportunism of Ilaix Moriba allowed the visitors to equalize in the 11th minute of the second half, when the midfielder controlled a rebound from goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski inside the box and finished to make it 1-1. Just four minutes later, a back-pass from the left set up Fernando López, who was able to control the ball inside the area and fire a great shot into the left corner of the Macedonian goalkeeper. The visitors' third goal came with another foray into the area in the 35th minute of the second half, with a through ball to Swedberg, who coolly finished as the opposing goalkeeper came out to put the score at 3-1. Another first-time shot, in the third minute of added time from the edge of the area, sealed Guido Rodríguez's brace and the final score. Buenos Aires, April 5 (NA) – Celta Vigo defeated Valencia 3-2 in the match played tonight at the Mestalla stadium, for the thirtieth round of LaLiga, the top tier of Spanish football. According to the Argentine News Agency, for the 'Celta' team, midfielders Ilaix Moriba and Fernando López and forward Williot Swedberg scored, while for the home side, midfielder Guido Rodríguez scored a brace. With the win, the light-blue-shirted team remains in sixth place in the competition, in the UEFA Conference League zone, with 44 points, one less than Real Betis, currently qualified for the Europa League, which has gone six matches without winning in local football. As for Valencia, the team continues to be in no man's land.