Yet another entertaining match in the Premiership. Kilmarnock is in the 10th place from featuring in two matches. They welcome Celtic who are placed 1st from two fixtures.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Kilmarnock form and stats
A Premiership draw at home so far for Kilmarnock. Last season their home statistics were 12 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats from 18 matches.
No payout for Kilmarnock in their previous match, an away game at Rangers that ended in defeat 0-2. The first loss after collecting points in three league rounds. Defender Dorsett got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.04/10. Dorsett won 6 of 11 duels.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Dundee United that ended 1-1.Early season league goal statistics from Kilmarnock's 1 home game: 1 goal, 1 conceded.
Celtic form and stats
1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Celtic in their Premiership matches away.
Celtic play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Ross County (placed 11th). Jota, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 9.31. Jota signed up for three assists, hit six key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 35 successful passes (of 42 total).
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Aberdeen.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 10 matches with 6 wins as expected, 3 draws and 1 surprise home win. The favourites won 5 of these games by at least two goals.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Celtic has managed 3 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Head to head totals (for the last ten meetings): Kilmarnock won one game, one match ended with a tie and Celtic managed eight wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four
Top Goalscorers
  A. Taylor 1 goals |   S. Welsh 1 goals |  K. Furuhashi 1 goals |
Kilmarnock missing players
Celtic missing players
| Kilmarnock | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 12 | 12 | 10.5 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 18 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 23 | 23 | 22.5 |
| 3 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 17% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 38% | 31% |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2 | 2.5 |
