Celtic massive favourites before trip to Livingston

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 30.October
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

Tipsway provides all you must know about the Premiership game Livingston - Celtic!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals (39) in Premiership

Livingston and Celtic should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston are steadily winning Premiership games and points here at Tony Macaroni Arena. 4 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 6 games.

Livingston shared the glory with Rangers in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.

Before that, Livingston had a home game versus St. Johnstone which ended with a victory 1-0.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Livingston had similar winning odds as today, and found 6 games. In these, the hosts won 1, drew 0 and lost 5. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Livingston lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.

Livingston are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.

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Celtic form and stats

The away performances of Celtic have been very solid so far with 5 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat in the Premiership. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Celtic hope to make it five in this match.

Celtic delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Shakhtar Donetsk in their previous match; a Champions League duel. Giakoumakis, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.11. Giakoumakis scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hearts at their stadium, the result 4-3.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this club's 10 most recent league matches have ended with three or more goals.

Celtic have another game away from home in just three nights, a Champions League match vs Real Madrid. A strenuous timetable for the visitors!

The Celtic manager Postecoglou has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 23 goals in 6 league matches away. As opposed to that, Celtic have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the prior ten meetings involving these two teams are: two wins for Livingston, four draws and four wins for Celtic. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

CelticK. Furuhashi
K. Furuhashi
7 goals
CelticL. Abada
L. Abada
6 goals
CelticG. Giakoumakis
G. Giakoumakis
6 goals

Livingston missing players

Celtic missing players

Livingston Celtic
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 6 1 Played P 1 6 11
5 4 0 Won W 1 5 10
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
5 2 1 Lost L 0 1 1
9 6 1 Scored S 4 23 39
13 4 2 Conceded C 3 7 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
45% 33% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
36% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 73%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 55%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 50% 36%
36% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 45%
36% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 45%
27% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 9%
 
4 4.7 0 Corners for (avg) C F 6 8.7 7.5
6.5 5.5 8 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3 3.4
2.2 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.7 1.5
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.1 12.7 5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 18.7 18.4
2.3 3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 8 7.8 7.5
36% 33% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 49% 47%
 
12.8 11.2 20 Shots against (avg) S A 17 8.7 8.3
3.2 3 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 9 3 2.6
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Celtic's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • 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 Livingston.
  • Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most points (15) away in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals (23) away in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals (39) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (18) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Premiership
  • Celtic have the the best goal difference (+16) away in Premiership
  • Celtic have the the best goal difference (+30) in Premiership
  • 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 (5-0-1) in Premiership
  • Livingston have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 11 10 0 1 39 9 5 5 0 0 16 2 6 5 0 1 23 7 30 30
2 Rangers 11 8 2 1 27 10 6 5 1 0 17 2 5 3 1 1 10 8 17 26
3 Aberdeen 11 6 1 4 22 16 5 4 0 1 17 5 6 2 1 3 5 11 6 19
4 St. Mirren 11 6 1 4 12 14 7 5 1 1 8 3 4 1 0 3 4 11 -2 19
5 Hibernian 12 5 2 5 14 16 6 3 2 1 9 6 6 2 0 4 5 10 -2 17
6 Livingston 11 5 1 5 9 13 6 4 0 2 6 4 5 1 1 3 3 9 -4 16
7 Hearts 11 4 2 5 18 20 5 3 0 2 12 12 6 1 2 3 6 8 -2 14
8 Motherwell 12 4 1 7 15 16 6 1 1 4 4 9 6 3 0 3 11 7 -1 13
9 St. Johnstone 12 4 1 7 13 17 5 1 1 3 4 4 7 3 0 4 9 13 -4 13
10 Kilmarnock 12 3 3 6 9 19 6 3 2 1 8 10 6 0 1 5 1 9 -10 12
11 Dundee United 12 2 3 7 11 25 6 2 0 4 6 15 6 0 3 3 5 10 -14 9
12 Ross County 12 2 3 7 6 20 6 1 2 3 4 12 6 1 1 4 2 8 -14 9

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.