The home side, Celtic, should be expected winners in this fixture, but Kilmarnock have displayed both smartness and guts. Learn more about the fixture!
- Celtic have the most scored goals (16) in Premiership
- Kilmarnock have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Premiership
10-6-22 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Kilmarnock when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 38 matches are 33-55 (scored/conceded).
Not a lot of time to rest for the home side, as they had a Champions League game only three days back. Thankfully the previous game, versus Lazio, was also a home game here at Celtic Park. The away team is better rested.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic have collected seven points from their first three Premiership games here at Celtic Park, a promising start.
Celtic's previous fixture was also a home event, the defeat 1-2 versus Lazio (in Champions League). Midfielder McGregor was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.45 (out of ten) in that game. McGregor hit one key pass and had 73 successful passes (of 76 total).
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Motherwell.With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (7 in 3 games), Celtic's attacking play is working. Celtic are not conceding a lot of goals here at Celtic Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Kilmarnock form and stats
The Premiership season is young and Kilmarnock have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 2 draws and 1 defeat so far.
Kilmarnock's last game was the home draw against St. Mirren (1-1). Midfielder Kennedy was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.41. Kennedy hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.
The match before was the League Cup-duel against Hearts, a home defeat (1-2).
4 goals have been conceded by Kilmarnock in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the preceeding ten meetings): Celtic won eight games, one match ended with a draw and Kilmarnock got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  M. O'Riley 5 goals |  K. Furuhashi 4 goals |  D. Turnbull 3 goals |
Celtic missing players
Kilmarnock missing players
| Celtic | Kilmarnock | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 86% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 29% |
| 7.6 | 10.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6 | 6.4 |
| 4.4 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 3.7 | 4.4 |
| 1 | 0.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.3 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16.9 | 19 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 16 | 14.4 |
| 7.4 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 31% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 27% | 28% |
| 9.9 | 5.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 10.3 | 10.9 |
| 2.6 | 1.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
- Celtic have not yet lost a game.
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Kilmarnock.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
- Celtic have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most matches over the total-line (5) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (16) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (7) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+12) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Celtic have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Celtic is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premiership
- Kilmarnock have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Premiership
- Kilmarnock have yet to win a game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Celtic | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 19 |
| 2 | St. Mirren | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | Rangers | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Hearts | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | Kilmarnock | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 9 | Dundee | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Livingston | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 11 | Ross County | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 12 | St. Johnstone | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -8 | 3 |
