Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Celtic - Motherwell!
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Europa League match only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Lazio.
Celtic form and stats
Overall Premiership stats at home this season for Celtic, who have the most scored goals (34) in Premiership, are 5-0-0 (wins-draw-losses). Ever since the St. Johnstone game Celtic has been unbeatable here at Celtic Park producing five straight wins.
Celtic are returning here after visiting Lazio in a Europa League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. A strong away win before that one, visiting Hibernian and winning 5-2.
Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster did an outstanding job against Lazio with 6 saves, so vital to securing the victory.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Celtic is on fire here. A stunning 21 from 5 league matches. Celtic have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Motherwell form and stats
The visitors are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Motherwell won their last game, 2-1 versus Livingston played at home. Before that, Motherwell secured a home win against Kilmarnock with the score 2-1.
With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any point(s) for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Motherwell as the away team, we found five results. Statistics from these were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. The outsiders lost 4 of these games by at least two goals.
The travelling fans enjoy Motherwell's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. As opposed to that, Motherwell have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Motherwell - Celtic 2-5 played earlier this season. Celtic-Motherwell H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Celtic 7 wins, Motherwell 0 wins, 3 draws. 4 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
 
O. Édouard
7 goals
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R. Christie
6 goals
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J. Forrest
5 goals
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Celtic missing players
Motherwell missing players
| Celtic | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
|
Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 34 | 21 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 20 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 92% |
| 91% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 83% |
| 55% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 75% |
| 55% | 80% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 25% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 17% |
| 36% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 58% |
| 55% | 60% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 17% |
| 6.2 | 7 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 1 | 5.8 | 5.1 |
| 2.3 | 1.6 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.8 | 4.8 |
| 0.9 | 0.4 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
- All of Celtic's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Celtic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- 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 Motherwell have scored away.
- Celtic have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Celtic have won all their matches at home so far.
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Celtic | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 27 | 28 |
| 2 | Rangers | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 26 | 28 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 22 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| 5 | Kilmarnock | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -3 | 17 |
| 6 | Ross County | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | -11 | 14 |
| 7 | Livingston | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | -1 | 13 |
| 8 | Hamilton Academical | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | -10 | 10 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | -13 | 10 |
| 10 | Hibernian | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | -10 | 9 |
| 11 | Hearts | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 8 |
| 12 | St. Mirren | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 10 | -6 | 8 |