Early weight of the money insinuate Celtic advantage when hosting Aberdeen

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 31.July
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Celtic Park (60411 seats)

It's a fresh start in Premiership - the first match of the season. Read our full guide and see how Celtic and Aberdeen did in their pre-season training matches!

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Celtic form and stats

Celtic are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 9 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 7, drew 0 and lost 2.

Celtic have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and seven practice matches played. These training games have ended with 4 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Celtic scored 27 goals and let in 9 goals during these seven games.

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Aberdeen form and stats

Just as the home team, Aberdeen have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 Aberdeen wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.

Head 2 Head

Data for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two contenders are: eight wins for Celtic, two draws and zero wins for Aberdeen. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

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Total First Half Second Half
Celtic Aberdeen
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0

Aberdeen:
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  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Aberdeen 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 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Hearts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Hibernian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Kilmarnock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Livingston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Motherwell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Ross County 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 St. Johnstone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 St. Mirren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.