One-sided contest expected as Celtic welcomes Ross County

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 19.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Celtic Park (60411 seats)

It's looking great for Celtic so far this season, with the 1st spot in the Premiership table and anticipating the visit of Ross County (who are placed 6th).

Insights:
  • Celtic have the most scored goals (65) in Premiership
  • Celtic have created more than twice as many corners as Ross County.

This should be an engaging match with lots of fun and excitement as both participants are well refreshed since they last played a game. Let's get started!

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Celtic form and stats

Home games in the Premiership have been a walk in the park for Celtic so far, with 38 points won from 14 matches; 12 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Celtic haven’t lost a league-game in 24 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Livingston, 181 days ago.

Before that match, a Premiership win away at Livingston.

Celtic are huge favourites in this match and it would be a big surprise if they fail to leave Celtic Park with a victory. The home side has been in this situation before, with huge expectations of a win. In their match history 13 earlier games are comparable to this one, and Celtic has won ten times, drawn two and lost one. Sports bettors who like handicap betting will like to know that Celtic has won by at least two goals eight times when in this position.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (33 in 14 games), Celtic's attacking play is working. Celtic have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County have only collected 15 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 4-3-8 (15 played).

The County goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 246 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Ross County had fun at their own home (Celtic Park) last time out, beating St. Mirren 1-0. Hungbo scored. Midfield player Callachan was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.84/10. Callachan had 24 successful passes (of 29 total).

Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Motherwell.

The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played eight away matches before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with one win, zero draws and seven defeats. seven games were lost by at least two goals margin.

The visiting County have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 15 games. Ross County have conceded 23 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the sides played each other previously this campaign; Ross County - Celtic 1-2. The ref showed his red card when these teams last met, and the culprit was Starfelt (Celtic). Last ten meetings featuring these sides: Celtic won eight, Ross County triumphed in two and we saw zero draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Ross CountyR. Charles-Cook
R. Charles-Cook
13 goals
CelticL. Abada
L. Abada
9 goals
CelticK. Furuhashi
K. Furuhashi
8 goals

Celtic missing players

Ross County missing players

Celtic Ross County
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 14 4 Played P 4 15 30
23 12 2 Won W 0 4 9
4 2 2 Drew D 0 3 9
3 0 0 Lost L 4 8 12
65 33 3 Scored S 3 17 43
18 4 1 Conceded C 11 23 47
90% 93% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
73% 71% 25% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 80%
57% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 60% 60%
30% 21% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 13% 33%
17% 21% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 13% 23%
40% 21% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 53% 67%
53% 79% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 20%
17% 7% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 20%
 
9.4 10.3 9.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3.2 3.9 4
2.9 2.1 2.2 Corners against (avg) C A 8 7.2 6.3
1.3 1 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.7 2.4
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
20.1 21.6 21.8 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 11.2 10
6.4 6.6 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.9 3.8
34% 35% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 38%
 
6.6 5.8 8 Shots against (avg) S A 16.2 16.1 15.1
2 1.1 1.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.9 4.8
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Celtic have created more than twice as many corners as Ross County.
  • Celtic have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Premiership
  • Celtic have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most clean sheets (11) at home in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most clean sheets (16) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals (65) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (38) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the the best goal difference (+29) at home in Premiership
  • Celtic have the the best goal difference (+47) 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

  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 30 23 4 3 65 18 14 12 2 0 33 4 16 11 2 3 32 14 47 73
2 Rangers 30 21 7 2 60 24 16 12 4 0 33 9 14 9 3 2 27 15 36 70
3 Hearts 30 14 8 8 42 31 15 9 3 3 26 12 15 5 5 5 16 19 11 50
4 Hibernian 30 9 10 11 28 30 16 6 5 5 16 14 14 3 5 6 12 16 -2 37
5 Livingston 30 10 7 13 33 38 15 5 3 7 16 19 15 5 4 6 17 19 -5 37
6 Ross County 30 9 9 12 43 47 15 5 6 4 26 24 15 4 3 8 17 23 -4 36
7 Dundee United 30 9 9 12 26 33 15 7 2 6 15 17 15 2 7 6 11 16 -7 36
8 Motherwell 30 9 9 12 31 44 16 7 4 5 19 22 14 2 5 7 12 22 -13 36
9 St. Mirren 30 8 12 10 27 40 14 3 7 4 11 13 16 5 5 6 16 27 -13 36
10 Aberdeen 30 8 8 14 33 38 14 6 4 4 20 15 16 2 4 10 13 23 -5 32
11 St. Johnstone 30 5 9 16 18 36 15 2 5 8 11 19 15 3 4 8 7 17 -18 24
12 Dundee 30 5 8 17 24 51 15 3 5 7 13 23 15 2 3 10 11 28 -27 23

Read more about Premiership

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.