This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Feyenoord at Stadion Feijenoord when the Champions League tournament arrives in town and Celtic with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!
Celtic have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 900 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Feyenoord form and stats
Feyenoord was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Europa League. Roma was too strong.Feyenoord have collected seven points from their first three Eredivisie games here at Stadion Feijenoord, a promising start.
A nice win for Feyenoord last time playing, versus SC Heerenveen. That was also a home game and the match ended 6-1 with Paixão, Minteh, Giménez, Ivanušec, Wieffer and Lingr scoring for the victors. As mentioned above, Feyenoord "killed" SC Heerenveen in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. The host team have an in-form goalscorer in Giménez, having bagged a goal in four matches in a row. Midfield player Paixão got a match rating of 8.6 in that game, the max score being 10. Paixão scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 32 successful passes (of 37 total).
A strong away win before that one, visiting FC Utrecht and winning 5-1.It's goals goals goals for Feyenoord who have scored 12 goals from 3 league home games. Feyenoord are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Feijenoord in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic's mission in Champions League last season failed in the group stage.Celtic go into this game after a win, the home game against Dundee that ended 3-0. The 3-0 victory against Dundee could easily have been bigger as the victors made a valiant effort at breaking the goal posts, hitting them three times. Furuhashi, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.15. Furuhashi scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Preceding that game was the away Premiership victory against Rangers with the score of 1-0.Celtic have another game away from home in just four nights, a Premiership match vs Livingston. A rough fixture list for them!
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Giménez 6 goals |   K. Furuhashi 4 goals |  D. Turnbull 3 goals |
Feyenoord missing players
Celtic missing players
| Feyenoord | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 17 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 4 | ||
| 64 | 42 | Scored | S | 24 | 52 | ||
| 24 | 13 | Conceded | C | 17 | 29 | ||
| 92% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 72% | ||
| 68% | 59% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 56% | ||
| 48% | 35% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 24% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 64% | 59% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 24% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 20% | ||
| 6.2 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 6.5 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.9 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18 | 17.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.1 | 13.7 | ||
| 6.9 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5.5 | ||
| 37% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 38% | ||
| 9.8 | 8.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 8.2 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lazio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Celtic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Atlético Madrid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PSV | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| 2 | Feyenoord | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 11 |
| 3 | AZ | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 4 | FC Twente | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 5 | Fortuna Sittard | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Sparta Rotterdam | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | Go Ahead Eagles | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | PEC Zwolle | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 9 | Heracles | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 10 | SC Heerenveen | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 6 |
| 11 | Ajax | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | Excelsior | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 5 |
| 13 | NEC | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 4 |
| 14 | Vitesse | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -5 | 3 |
| 15 | FC Utrecht | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -7 | 3 |
| 16 | RKC Waalwijk | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 3 |
| 17 | FC Volendam | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -8 | 0 |
| 18 | Almere City | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -10 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lazio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Celtic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Atlético Madrid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
