Celtic are placed 2nd, while Motherwell are lagging 10 points behind in the standings. Can they crop the gap?
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Premiership
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Motherwell have scored away.
There haven't been much to rest for the host team, as they featured in a Europa League fixture only three days back. This match was also played here at Celtic Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Motherwell have had more rest.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic have been very solid at home in the Premiership so far, with 20 points collected from 8 matches (6-2-0). This has contributed greatly to their 2nd position in the table. Celtic has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Livingston defeat 84 days ago.
The Celtic goalkeeper Joe Hart is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 237 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premiership.
Celtic's last game was hosting Real Betis and winning 3-2. Bain loved the game against Real Betis. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 3-2 victory. Midfielder Liel Abada was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.8 (out of ten) in that game. Abada served one assist and hit two key passes.
Before that match, a Premiership win away at Dundee United.Celtic are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Ross County awaits in three days.
Goals are plentiful at Celtic Park in the league this season as Celtic has scored 21 goals here in 8 home games. As for guarding their own goal, Celtic have only let in 2 goals at home. It's worth mentioning that 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Motherwell form and stats
The visitors are W2-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Motherwell are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Hibernian (placed 7th). The attacker Tony Watt got a match rating of 7.65 in that game. Watt scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Dundee United.With the home team stated as having a winning chance of around 80% by the bookmakers, any beneficial result for the visitors would be an eye-opener. Inspecting previous games with similar odds and Motherwell playing away, we found five results. The numbers from these were zero away wins, one draw and four defeats. The away team lost two of these games by a margin of at least two goals.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Motherwell have scored 8 goals in 8 league games away. 11 goals have been conceded by Motherwell in these games.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have played previously this season: Motherwell - Celtic 0-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's nine Celtic victories, one draw and zero Motherwell wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Watt 9 goals |   K. Furuhashi 8 goals |  D. Turnbull 5 goals |
Celtic missing players
Motherwell missing players
| Celtic | Motherwell | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 36 | 21 | 8 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 10 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 25 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 56% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 38% | 41% |
| 25% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 19% | 25% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 38% | 25% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 62% | 53% |
| 50% | 75% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 29% |
| 19% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 25% | 18% |
| 9.4 | 10.2 | 14.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 5.2 | 4.1 |
| 3.1 | 2.5 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 7.8 | 6.8 |
| 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 3 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 20.4 | 23.8 | 28 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 9.9 | 9.5 |
| 6 | 6.6 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| 38% | 40% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 26% | 34% |
| 7.1 | 5.5 | 3.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.3 | 14.8 | 16.1 |
| 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.5 | 6.4 |
- All of Motherwell's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Celtic have created more than twice as many corners as Motherwell.
- 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 Motherwell 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 (6) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most clean sheets (8) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most points (20) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (21) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (19) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+19) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+26) in Premiership
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Motherwell have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Motherwell 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 | Rangers | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 22 | 39 |
| 2 | Celtic | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 26 | 35 |
| 3 | Hearts | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 30 |
| 4 | Dundee United | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -3 | 25 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 25 |
| 6 | Aberdeen | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 21 |
| 7 | Hibernian | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 20 | -11 | 17 |
| 9 | Livingston | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -10 | 16 |
| 10 | Dundee | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | -15 | 16 |
| 11 | St. Johnstone | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 14 |
| 12 | Ross County | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 11 |