National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Celtic or Ross County that keep their silverware dream alive.
The hosts Celtic saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa League. That game was an away game at Sparta Praha, so at least Celtic are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Celtic form and stats
The fans are hoping that Celtic will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-4 away loss in the Europa League game against Sparta Praha. Preceding that game was the away draw at Hibernian that finished 2-2.
It would be a shock if the hosts fail to win this game. Let's see how Celtic have performed as huge favourites like they are today: 14 games found in the database showing 13 Celtic wins, one draw and zero defeats.
The manager N. Lennon will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Milan in only four days.
Celtic have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and five practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Celtic scored 5 goals and let in 8 goals during these five games.
Ross County form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Stirling Albion, Montrose, Elgin City and Arbroath in order to reach 2nd Round of League Cup. Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.When we have look at the League Cup statistics, we find 3W-1D-0L. This is both home and away. Bitter travels for Ross County as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the St. Johnstone match.
It might be tough going out on the road again for County, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-3 versus Kilmarnock. Before that, County secured a home win against Stirling Albion with the score 3-0.
Nobody expects County to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath eight times before, with the overall statistics of won two, draw one and lost five. When defeated, four matches have been lost by two or more goals.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Ross County have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeats from one fixture.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Celtic nine wins, one draw and Ross County zero victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Celtic missing players
Ross County missing players
| Celtic | Ross County | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 8 | 12 | ||
| 53 | 27 | Scored | S | 15 | 26 | ||
| 34 | 14 | Conceded | C | 27 | 43 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 56% | ||
| 48% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 28% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 14% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 14.5 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.8 | 8.8 | ||
| 6 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.4 | ||
| 35% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 45% | ||