Celta Rounds Off Poor Start: Déjà Vu for the Galicians as They Slip into Familiar Struggles

Here we go again. Celta Vigo’s opening weeks of the 2026–27 season read like a photocopy of last year’s nightmare, and the Galician faithful are understandably restless. The club that promised renewal and ambition has instead delivered the same listless football, the same defensive fragility, and the same sense of drifting aimlessly through September.

With just one point fewer than this stage last season, Celta’s trajectory screams repetition. The numbers don’t lie, but neither do the eyes of anyone who watched them shuffle through their opening fixtures. There’s a hollowness to their play—a lack of urgency, creativity, and conviction that transforms even modest opponents into mountains to climb. It’s the kind of start that plants seeds of doubt in the minds of supporters who’ve already endured one season of underperformance.

What makes this particularly galling is the sense of inevitability about it all. Celta had the entire off-season to plot a different course, to address the structural problems that left them floundering. Yet here they stand, barely distinguishable from the version that frustrated their fanbase twelve months ago. The midfield lacks invention, the attack lacks teeth, and the defensive organization remains a work in progress—or, more accurately, a work that never begins.

The Balaídos crowd deserves better than this. Deserves a team that fights, that builds, that shows signs of genuine ambition rather than resigned acceptance of mediocrity. Right now, Celta is offering neither the hope of last summer nor the fight of a side determined to break the cycle. Unless something changes—and changes dramatically—this could be another long season in Vigo.