The Blue and Whites, who sit 18^th in the table with 2 points, travel to face the Pontevedra-based side, who are 16^th with 3 points from one additional game played.

Referee Carlos Muñiz will officiate #CeltaMálaga. The 30-year-old from Zaragoza won the Second Division Guruceta Trophy last season and will make his top flight debut this campaign. He will be assisted by Sevilla-born Jorge Figueroa on VAR duty.

Players in common RC Celta-Málaga CF

Catanha, Couñago, Baiano, Quincy, Charles, Adrián González, Jozabed, Juan Hernández, Aarón Ñíguez, Vadillo, Dotor and Febas

(*) Álvaro Fernández, a youth international goalkeeper, played for Atlético Malagueño and RC Celta de Vigo ‘B’

Coaches in common RC Celta-Málaga CF

José Manuel Díaz Novoa

Players in common RC Celta-CD Málaga

Liz*, Pedrín*, Yayo*, Salas*, Montoro, Muruaga, Seoane, Sobrado, Alonso, Ares, Carlos Torres, Mori, Búa and Zambrano

(*) As CD Malacitano

Coaches in common RC Celta-CD Málaga

Luis Urquiri, Ricardo Zamora, Pasarín, Lluís Miró and Milorad Pavic

(*) Juan Arza, the legendary former CD Málaga player who featured for the club in the 1942/43 season, went on to manage RC Celta

Match info

• Alfonso Herrero, Recio and Chupe are the only Malaguista players to have played every minute (360) of the league campaign so far.

• Cajuste made his official Málaga debut in the previous matchday against Levante UD. Injured Calero, along with Aznou and Berrocal, are the summer signings yet to make their debut.

• Chupe for Málaga, and Aspas and Starfelt for the hosts, are the players who have scored their respective teams’ goals so far this season.

• Málaga CF have yet to pick up a point away from home this season, losing both of their away games against Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid. Celta, meanwhile, are still without a home point, having lost 1-2 to CA Osasuna and 0-2 to Athletic Club.

Stats and facts

• RC Celta and Málaga CF have met 14 times in official matches at Balaídos. The record is evenly balanced, with Málaga claiming 5 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats, scoring 16 goals and conceding 15. Twelve of those 14 meetings have come in the top flight.

• Notable Malaguista wins include a 2-4 victory in the 1999/00 season, with Catanha scoring a hat-trick and Rufete adding the other goal, and a 0-1 win on the opening day of the 2012/13 campaign, courtesy of Fabrice Olinga, who became the youngest goalscorer in First Division history at the time.

• CD Málaga made 22 visits to Balaídos between 1950 and 1992. They never managed to beat Celta, who won 14 of those encounters. In their final meeting in the elite, Málaga claimed one of the eight draws from their visits to Vigo. It came on matchday 20 of the 1989/90 season, ending 1-1 with Toledano scoring Málaga’s goal.

• In their previous 17 seasons in the First Division, Málaga CF have recorded 6 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats on matchday 5.