St. Johnstone have travelled here for an engaging battle against the home side Celtic. Read up on the match with this thorough Premiership preview!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic have played 1 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-0-0 (wins-draws-losses).
The followers are hoping that Celtic will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the League Cup fixture against Kilmarnock.
In the game before, an away victory in the Premiership match versus Aberdeen with a 3-1 scoreline.Everyone expects Celtic to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found 25 games: 22 home wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Celtic have won with at least two goals margin 17 times in similar situations.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Celtic at home in the league. 4 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
St. Johnstone form and stats
0 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of St. Johnstone playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.
St. Johnstone are looking to quickly end their 180 minutes long goal drought in the Premiership.
There might be some fixture complaints from St. Johnstone as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 0-2 against Ross County. It is possibly a bad omen for Johnstone that their goalie Mitov managed six saves in the Ross County game, but still were unable to prevent a loss.
A 0-2 loss hosting Hearts before that.{0 goals} so far away for St. Johnstone, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
The 9 most recent meetings featuring these sides have all ended as Celtic victories. Surely both teams are aware of this.Top Goalscorers
  D. Turnbull 2 goals |  M. O'Riley 2 goals |  K. Furuhashi 2 goals |
Celtic missing players
St. Johnstone missing players
| Celtic | St. Johnstone | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 6.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7 | 6.5 |
| 8.5 | 8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 7.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 18 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12 | 11 |
| 11 | 12 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 32% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 9 | 7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 19 | 17.5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 8 | 8.5 |
