Livingston will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 38 points behind Celtic.
The visiting Celtic played their last game only three days ago, a Scottish Cup match. That game, against St. Johnstone, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Celtic.
Livingston form and stats
27 points is a decent return from 13 Premiership games here at Tony Macaroni Arena for Livingston. The data says 8 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. After failing to beat Hamilton Academical here at Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with six wins in a row.
An away draw last time out for Livingston, facing Hibernian in a game that ended 1-1. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Rangers (0-1).
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Livingston handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, one draw and two defeats.
There will be little rest for Livingston after this match as they are travelling to St. Johnstone for a Premiership game in only three days.
Livingston has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. As for guarding their own goal, Livingston have only let in 6 goals at home.
Celtic form and stats
The strength of Celtic, who have the most scored goals (82) in Premiership, on their travels this season is incredible with 37 points collected from 14 Premiership away games. Celtic has 12-1-1 on the road, with 37 goals scored and 10 conceded. Celtic are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played nine in a row without losing. Celtic have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of eight victories in a row regardless of arena.
Celtic play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting St. Johnstone (placed 8th). Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus København.
Celtic are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, zero draws and one defeat. From a total of two matches.
A new game in only three days for Celtic, the Premiership home match versus St. Mirren. Busy days.
Celtic create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 37 goals in 14 travels. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (10 so far).
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Celtic - Livingston 4-0, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Livingston one win, two draws and Celtic seven victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 O. Édouard 20 goals | R. Christie 11 goals |  L. Dykes 10 goals |
Livingston missing players
Celtic missing players
| Livingston | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 14 | 28 |
| 10 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 12 | 25 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 39 | 17 | 1 | Scored | S | 7 | 37 | 82 |
| 36 | 6 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 17 |
| 89% | 77% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 62% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 93% | 96% |
| 54% | 31% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 64% | 71% |
| 29% | 8% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 43% | 46% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 21% | 21% |
| 50% | 15% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 46% |
| 32% | 69% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 43% | 50% |
| 29% | 38% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 7% | 4% |
| 4.6 | 4.8 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6.6 | 7.3 |
| 4.7 | 3.4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 3.1 | 2.8 |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 235 | 118 | 37 | Total Shots | T S | 57 | 223 | 456 |
| 106 | 56 | 20 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 79 | 188 |
| 37% | 30% | 5% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 47% | 44% |
- Celtic has the fewest conceded goals (10) away
- Celtic has the fewest conceded goals (17)
- Celtic has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8)
- Celtic has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
- Celtic has the most points (37) away
- Celtic has the most scored goals (37) away
- Celtic has the most scored goals (82)
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the first half (38)
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the second half (44)
- Celtic has the the best goal difference (+27) away
- Celtic has the the best goal difference (+65)
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Livingston.
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Celtic is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Livingston has the most clean sheets (9) at home
- Livingston have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded 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 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 82 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 10 | 65 | 76 |
| 2 | Rangers | 27 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 63 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 45 | 64 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 28 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 36 | 36 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 42 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 35 | 33 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 41 |
| 5 | Livingston | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 39 | 36 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 22 | 30 | 3 | 38 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 40 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 24 | -3 | 37 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 29 | 38 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 25 | -9 | 32 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 27 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 27 | 46 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 20 | -19 | 32 |
| 9 | Ross County | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 55 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 33 | -27 | 29 |
| 10 | St. Mirren | 27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 23 | -13 | 25 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 28 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 50 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 26 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 24 | -22 | 21 |
| 12 | Hearts | 27 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 27 | -22 | 19 |