Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Celtic & St. Johnstone face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Celtic and St. Johnstone should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic participated in League Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.The Celtic fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Hampden Park and will expect new points from this game. Celtic has played twelve games in a row here without a defeat.
It's back home for Celtic, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Dundee away with the result 4-2. Kyogo Furuhashi (2) and Jota (2) found the net in that victory. A goal frenzy last time out for Celtic, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Dundee. Fun stuff to watch! Midfield player Jota got a match rating of 9.34 in that game, the max score being 10. Jota scored two goals, served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 34 successful passes (of 41 total).
In the game before, an away victory in the Europa League match versus Ferencvaros with a 3-2 scoreline.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 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Celtic scored 7 goals and let in 9 goals during these five games.
St. Johnstone form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Johnstone, as they won the League Cup.Johnstone played 0-0 against St. Mirren in their previous match. Liam Gordon was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.35. The defender Gordon won 3 of 6 duels.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Dundee United at their stadium, the result 1-0.It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. St. Johnstone have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 3 draws and 0 defeats from four fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: Celtic won nine, St. Johnstone triumphed in zero and we saw one draw. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with under 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  K. Furuhashi 7 goals |  D. Turnbull 4 goals |  J. Neves Filipe 4 goals |
Celtic missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Celtic | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 6 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 6 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 57 | 33 | Scored | S | 12 | 22 | ||
| 33 | 13 | Conceded | C | 8 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 68% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 40% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 44% | ||
| 7.6 | 8.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4.4 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.6 | 5.3 | ||
| 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 16.7 | 19.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.8 | 8.9 | ||
| 5.6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3 | ||
| 41% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 31% | ||
| 9.2 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.6 | 11 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.3 | ||