Who will win when Dundee United visit Celtic? In this preview you'll learn all the relevant info and data needed to predict the outcome.
- Celtic have the most scored goals (16) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most clean sheets (4) in Premiership
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.
Celtic form and stats
As mentioned below, Celtic are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 Premiership games. There’s a good atmosphere here at Celtic Park after three straight home wins.
The Celtic supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Raith Rovers in League Cup and win 3-0.
Prior to that, an away loss at Livingston in the Premiership.The match schedule is unforgiving for Celtic as they have a new game in only four days, a Europa League match thankfully also at home. Bayer Leverkusen are visiting.
It's goals goals goals for Celtic who have scored 15 goals from 3 league home games. As for guarding their own goal, Celtic have only let in 0 goals at home.
Dundee United form and stats
Dundee United are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Dundee have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Benjamin Siegrist. It's been 180 minutes since they last conceded in Premiership.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a League Cup home defeat versus Hibernian with 1-3 on the scoreboard.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Dundee in the Premiership.With the home side given a victory chance of about 80% by the bookmakers, any beneficial result for the guesting team would be a small shock. Examining earlier games with similar odds and Dundee United as the away team, we found one results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, zero draws and one defeat. The away team lost one of these fixtures by a margin of at least two goals.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Dundee United's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 3 matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
Head to head data (for the prior ten meetings): Celtic won nine games, one match ended in a draw and Dundee United have zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  D. Turnbull 3 goals |  K. Furuhashi 3 goals |  A. Ralston 2 goals |
Celtic missing players
Dundee United missing players
| Celtic | Dundee United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | 15 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 83% |
| 67% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 67% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 67% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 67% | 67% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 67% | 50% |
| 8.7 | 11 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
| 2.7 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6 | 5.5 |
| 0.8 | 0.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 21.2 | 28 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 7.7 | 8.7 |
| 6.2 | 10.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 4.3 |
| 43% | 48% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 11% | 12% |
- All of Celtic's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Celtic have created more than twice as many corners as Dundee United.
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Dundee United.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most points (9) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (15) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (16) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (6) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+12) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+15) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have won all their matches at home so far.
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Dundee United have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most clean sheets (4) in Premiership
- Dundee United have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Premiership
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rangers | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Hibernian | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | Hearts | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Dundee United | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 10 |
| 6 | Celtic | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 9 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 6 |
| 9 | Livingston | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 4 |
| 11 | Ross County | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -8 | 3 |
| 12 | Dundee | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | -8 | 3 |