The visiting Celtic side should be favourites in this visit to Hamilton Academical, as the away team holds a 43 point advantage from their 23 league games this season.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Celtic have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 4-1-1 (win-draw-loss) from six matches.
Hamilton Academical form and stats
Hamilton Academical's struggle is real here at The Hope CBD Stadium with only 11 points collected from 12 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-2-7.
The spoils were shared in Hamilton Academical's previous game, also at home. Visiting Celtic (placed 1st) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. Before that game, the home loss against Livingston with the scoreline 2-4.
Despite playing at their own arena the home team are massive underdogs in this game. The home fans will enjoy their drinks and snacks knowing that the chances of a positive outcome are very slim. When Hamilton Academical have been in this position before, they have won zero, drawn one and lost five from six games. three defeats by at least two goals.
Hamilton Academical are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 12 games. Hamilton Academical have conceded 19 from these games.
Celtic form and stats
Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Celtic so far, with 9-1-1 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Premiership statistics. Celtic are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played seven in a row without losing.
204 minutes! That's how long the Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Celtic has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Hamilton Academical for a Premiership game that ended a draw (1-1). Preceding that game was the away victory against St. Johnstone with the score of 3-0.
Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Celtic given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 19 matches with twelve wins as expected, six draws and one surprise home win. The favourites won eight of these games by at least two goals.
Celtic have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 27 goals from 11 away matches. It's not easy to score on Celtic as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Celtic - Hamilton Academical 2-1, played this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Hamilton Academical won zero games, zero matches ended with a draw and Celtic has ten wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  O. Édouard 15 goals |  R. Christie 10 goals |  J. Forrest 9 goals |
Hamilton Academical missing players
Celtic missing players
| Hamilton Academical | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 24 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | 14 | 2 | Scored | S | 8 | 28 | 65 |
| 41 | 20 | 7 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 15 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 69% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 58% | 46% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 62% |
| 33% | 31% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 38% |
| 12% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | 17% |
| 58% | 62% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 46% |
| 12% | 8% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 42% | 50% |
| 38% | 31% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | 4% |
| 3.7 | 3.6 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 9.3 | 7.1 | 7.5 |
| 8 | 8.4 | 10.3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 1.7 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 159 | 78 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 57 | 194 | 386 |
| 55 | 26 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 64 | 152 |
| 44% | 54% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 44% | 43% |
- Celtic has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6)
- Celtic has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
- Celtic has the most scored goals (64)
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the first half (32)
- Celtic has the the best goal difference (+50)
- Celtic have created more than twice as many corners as Hamilton Academical.
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Hamilton Academical.
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hamilton Academical has the fewest clean sheets (3)
- Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Celtic | 23 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 64 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 8 | 50 | 61 |
| 2 | Rangers | 23 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 57 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 8 | 44 | 57 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 24 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 34 | 28 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 41 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 30 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 38 |
| 5 | Livingston | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 26 | 5 | 34 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 33 | 39 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -6 | 30 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 22 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 20 | -8 | 26 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 23 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 42 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | -21 | 24 |
| 9 | Ross County | 24 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 50 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 29 | -27 | 22 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 20 | -13 | 21 |
| 11 | Hearts | 24 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 22 | -16 | 18 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 23 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 23 | 40 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 21 | -17 | 18 |