Premiership: Dundee United - Celtic preview and statistics

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 07.March
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tannadice Park (14223 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Dundee United have their presumed home advantage while Celtic are ahead 32 points in the Premiership table.

Insights:
  • Dundee United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Celtic have the most points from losing position (13) in Premiership

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Dundee United form and stats

5 victories, 4 draws and 6 defeats. That’s what Dundee United have to build on here at Tannadice Park in the Premiership.

Dundee drew their last game, 1-1 away at Kilmarnock (placed 11th). Prior to that, an away loss at Rangers.

Dundee are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 18 goals in 15 games. Dundee have conceded 20 in these home matches.

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Celtic form and stats

Celtic's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Celtic, who have the most scored goals (35) away in Premiership, collect 31 points from their 15 away matches in the Premiership. 9 victories and 4 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats).

Celtic had fun at their own home (Tannadice Park) last time out, beating Aberdeen 1-0. Odsonne Édouard scored. A 0-1 defeat away at Ross County before that.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Celtic are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's not easy to score on Celtic as they have only conceded 13 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Dundee and Celtic have met before this season: Celtic - Dundee United 3-0. Last ten meetings between the teams: Dundee won zero, Celtic won nine and one draw. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

CelticO. Édouard
O. Édouard
16 goals
Dundee UnitedN. Clark
N. Clark
8 goals
CelticM. Elyounoussi
M. Elyounoussi
7 goals

Dundee United missing players

Celtic missing players

Dundee United Celtic
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 5 15 31
8 5 0 Won W 4 9 20
11 4 1 Drew D 1 4 7
12 6 3 Lost L 0 2 4
28 18 1 Scored S 12 35 65
43 20 5 Conceded C 4 13 23
84% 93% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
74% 80% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 81%
45% 53% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 67% 55%
16% 13% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 47% 29%
6% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 16%
48% 60% 25% BTTS BTTS 60% 47% 42%
29% 20% 25% Clean Sheets C S 40% 40% 48%
39% 27% 75% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 13%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.8 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1 0.7
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
8.7 8.3 8 Shots (avg) S ( 16.4 17 16.9
2.4 2.5 1.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.6 6.1 6
38% 49% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 38% 35%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Celtic have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Dundee United.
  • Celtic have the most points from losing position (13) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals (35) away in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals in the second half (39) in Premiership
  • Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Dundee United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 30 26 4 0 73 9 15 15 0 0 44 2 15 11 4 0 29 7 64 82
2 Celtic 31 20 7 4 65 23 16 11 3 2 30 10 15 9 4 2 35 13 42 67
3 Hibernian 30 15 7 8 41 28 16 6 5 5 19 19 14 9 2 3 22 9 13 52
4 Aberdeen 31 13 9 9 32 30 16 9 3 4 22 16 15 4 6 5 10 14 2 48
5 Livingston 29 11 7 11 36 35 14 5 3 6 16 17 15 6 4 5 20 18 1 40
6 St. Mirren 31 10 9 12 29 34 17 4 7 6 14 21 14 6 2 6 15 13 -5 39
7 Dundee United 31 8 11 12 28 43 15 5 4 6 18 20 16 3 7 6 10 23 -15 35
8 St. Johnstone 30 8 9 13 31 39 14 3 4 7 6 13 16 5 5 6 25 26 -8 33
9 Motherwell 31 8 8 15 28 46 15 3 3 9 13 28 16 5 5 6 15 18 -18 32
10 Ross County 30 7 5 18 22 54 15 3 4 8 12 27 15 4 1 10 10 27 -32 26
11 Kilmarnock 31 7 4 20 27 43 15 4 3 8 18 21 16 3 1 12 9 22 -16 25
12 Hamilton Academical 29 6 6 17 28 56 14 2 4 8 11 23 15 4 2 9 17 33 -28 24

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.