Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Ross County & Celtic face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Ross County nor Celtic as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Ross County form and stats
Action has already taken place for County in League Cup as they have defeated Alloa Athletic, Celtic, East Fife, Dunfermline Athletic and Buckie Thistle to reach the 2nd Round. Last season, Ross County's League Cup journey ended in the group stage.County's previous game was also a home event, the loss 0-2 vs Celtic (in League Cup).
Prior to that, an away loss at Rangers in the Premiership.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Celtic to win. Let's see if Ross County are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: 9 games found revealing 1 Ross County win, 1 draw and 7 defeats.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for County, who have participated in one training match. Ross County have won 1 of these, drawn 0 and were beaten in 0 games.
Celtic form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Ross County in order to reach 2nd round of League Cup. Nothing but glory last season for Celtic, as they won the League Cup.Two away games in a row for Celtic, whose coach Postecoglou could celebrate last time after the League Cup win against Ross County.
Preceding that game was the away Premiership victory against Dundee United with the score of 9-0.As mentioned earlier, Celtic will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 8 wins (7 by two or more goals winning margin), 3 draws and 1 surprising defeat.
Just as the home team, Celtic have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 3 Celtic wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
Head 2 Head
Celtic have been victorious in all of the 5 most recent battles versus this side. Something to take note of?Top Goalscorers
  K. Furuhashi 6 goals |  L. Abada 4 goals |  J. Neves Filipe 3 goals |
Ross County missing players
Celtic missing players
| Ross County | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 9 | 18 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | ||
| 30 | 17 | Scored | S | 39 | 79 | ||
| 33 | 13 | Conceded | C | 11 | 17 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 4% | ||
| 4 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.4 | 7.9 | ||
| 6.2 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.9 | 3.5 | ||
| 2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.4 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.6 | 16.7 | ||
| 2.8 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 6.3 | ||
| 39% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 48% | ||
| 14.3 | 13.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.7 | 7 | ||
| 3.8 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 2.1 | ||
