Celtic and Hearts are both riding high in the Premiership with their 2nd and 3rd places respectively. Expect a great fixture!
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Premiership
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hearts have scored away.
Little time to rest for the home team, as they had a Premiership fixture only four days earlier. This match was also played here at Celtic Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Hearts have had more rest.
Celtic form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Celtic Park as Celtic have scored 20 goals to get 17 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Premiership are 5-2-0 (wins-draws-losses).
The Celtic supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Aberdeen in Premiership and win 2-1. Callum McGregor (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.15/10. McGregor scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 55 successful passes (of 57 total).
Heartbreak before that as Celtic lost 2-3 at Bayer Leverkusen's place.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 twelve matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won seven, drew one and lost four.
Celtic are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Dundee United awaits in three days.
Goals are plentiful at Celtic Park in the league this season as Celtic has scored 20 goals here in 7 home games. As for guarding their own goal, Celtic have only let in 2 goals at home.
Hearts form and stats
2 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Hearts playing as the away team in the Premiership this season. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Hearts are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Hearts won their last game, 2-0 versus St. Mirren played at home. Hearts goalie Craig Gordon was high and low in the St. Mirren game, contributing seven saves towards the victory. Craig Gordon was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.23. The agile goalkeeper Gordon stopped the opponent with seven saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that match, the Hearts manager R. Neilson faced defeat when travelling to Motherwell and losing 0-2.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Hearts played away with similar odds. This revealed three games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected two times.
Hearts have another fixture away in just three sleeps, a Premiership fixture versus Livingston. A grim diary for the guests!
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Hearts have scored 9 goals in 7 league games away. As opposed to that, Hearts have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Celtic and Hearts have faced each other before this season: Hearts - Celtic 2-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: eight - one - one (Celtic wins - draws - Hearts wins). As for goals, nine matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Furuhashi 7 goals |   L. Boyce 6 goals |  J. Neves Filipe 5 goals |
Celtic missing players
Hearts missing players
| Celtic | Hearts | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 32 | 20 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 25 |
| 10 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 14 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 79% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 57% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 40% |
| 29% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 21% | 29% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 43% | 29% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 71% | 60% |
| 43% | 71% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 14% | 33% |
| 21% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 8.9 | 9.9 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| 3.1 | 2 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5 |
| 1.1 | 0.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19.6 | 23.6 | 25 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 11.6 | 12.9 |
| 5.7 | 6.9 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
| 40% | 42% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 38% | 40% |
| 7.1 | 5.1 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.5 | 14.1 | 12.8 |
| 2.5 | 1.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.3 | 4.9 |
- All of Hearts's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Celtic have not yet lost a game at home.
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hearts have scored away.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Premiership
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most clean sheets (5) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (20) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+18) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+22) in Premiership
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premiership
- Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 18 | 33 |
| 2 | Celtic | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 22 | 29 |
| 3 | Hearts | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 27 |
| 4 | Dundee United | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 25 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 21 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | St. Mirren | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 16 | -8 | 16 |
| 8 | Aberdeen | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -5 | 15 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -5 | 14 |
| 10 | Livingston | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -8 | 13 |
| 11 | Dundee | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -13 | 13 |
| 12 | Ross County | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 10 |