More points have been won by Celtic so far, with the 4th position in the Premiership table and looking forward to facing St. Johnstone (who are placed 8th).
- Celtic have the most scored goals (21) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Premiership
These are hustling days for the team playing at home, as they played only four days ago in the Europa League. This match was also played here at Celtic Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, St. Johnstone have had more rest.
Celtic form and stats
The overall Premiership statistics playing at home this season for Celtic, who have the most scored goals (21) in Premiership, are 3-1-0 (wins-draws-losses).
A nice win for Celtic last time playing, versus Ferencvaros. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with David Turnbull and Kyogo Furuhashi scoring for the victors. The versatile forward Jota outdid all the other players in that fixture and got a match rating of 8.41 out of 10. Jota served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 44 successful passes (of 49 total).
A strong away win before that one, visiting Motherwell and winning 2-0.Celtic are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Hibernian awaits in four days.
Celtic always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Celtic Park with 16 goals in 4 league games. As for guarding their own goal, Celtic have only let in 1 goal at home.
St. Johnstone form and stats
The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Premiership, are W1-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership home defeat versus Livingston with 0-3 on the scoreboard. Midfield player Cameron MacPherson was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.43/10. MacPherson hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Dundee.With the team playing at home stated as having a winning chance of roughly 80% by the bookies, any useful result for the away team would be a small shock. Researching previous matches with similar odds and Johnstone as the away team, we found two results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, zero draws and two defeats. The outsiders lost two of these games by a margin of at least two goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Hearts in just four days.
St. Johnstone are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 1 goal from 4 away games. Johnstone are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's nine Celtic victories, one draw and zero St. Johnstone wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Turnbull 4 goals |  K. Furuhashi 4 goals |  L. Abada 3 goals |
Celtic missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Celtic | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 21 | 16 | 6 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 78% |
| 78% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 44% |
| 56% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 22% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 22% | 50% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 44% | 75% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 75% | 33% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 75% | 56% |
| 8.6 | 10.5 | 15 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 5.8 |
| 3.1 | 1.2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 1 | 0.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19.7 | 27.2 | 35 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 10 | 11.2 |
| 5.9 | 9 | 13 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| 40% | 44% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 9% | 23% |
- All of Celtic's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Celtic have not yet lost a game at home.
- 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 in all their home matches so far.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of St. Johnstone.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (16) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (21) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+15) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+15) in Premiership
- 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.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
| 2 | Hearts | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 3 | Dundee United | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Celtic | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 16 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 6 | Motherwell | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 7 | St. Mirren | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 13 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 9 |
| 9 | Aberdeen | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -3 | 8 |
| 10 | Livingston | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 11 | Dundee | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | -10 | 6 |
| 12 | Ross County | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -11 | 3 |