A swift peek at the Premiership table hint of an upper hand to Celtic when they travel to Motherwell. However; let's play the match before we hand out the points!
- Motherwell have the fewest points (4) at home in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (46) in Premiership
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.
Motherwell form and stats
Motherwell's struggle is real here at Fir Park with only 4 points collected from 6 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-4. Game days at Fir Park have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Motherwell as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.
Motherwell are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-3 away versus Hearts. Midfielder Spittal was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.22 (out of ten) in that game. Spittal scored one goal and hit four key passes.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Dundee United and winning 1-0.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Celtic to win. Let's see if Motherwell are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: 7 games found revealing 0 Motherwell wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats.
Motherwell are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at St. Johnstone awaits in three days.
Motherwell aren't scoring a lot here at Fir Park in the league, with only {4 goals} from 6 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded. When Motherwell hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Kilmarnock, Ross County and Dundee United), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 18 points collected from 7 Premiership games. 6 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat is the record so far. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Motherwell.
Celtic won their last game, 4-2 versus Dundee United played at home. As you can tell from the result, the match against Dundee United was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Attacker Hakšabanović got a player rating of 8.62 in the game. "Man of the match" Hakšabanović scored two goals, hit two key passes and had 25 successful passes (of 27 total).
A loss, in the Champions League away at Real Madrid, before that.
Goal hungry football fans should note that 10 of this team's 12 latest league matches have ended with three goals or more.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Ross County in just three days.
The Celtic manager Postecoglou has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 26 goals in 7 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Celtic have been victorious in all of the 14 most recent fixtures versus this team. Something to take note of?The former head to head game ended Celtic - Motherwell 2-1, earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Furuhashi 9 goals |   K. van Veen 7 goals |  L. Abada 7 goals |
Motherwell missing players
Celtic missing players
| Motherwell | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 17 | 26 | 46 |
| 19 | 9 | 7 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| 93% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 86% | 77% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 57% | 54% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 43% | 38% |
| 50% | 50% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 43% | 46% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 43% | 46% |
| 21% | 33% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 8% |
| 5 | 3.7 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10.3 | 8 | 7.5 |
| 4.9 | 3 | 1.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.3 | 2.6 | 3 |
| 2.4 | 2.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.4 | 13.3 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 23 | 18.4 | 18.8 |
| 3.6 | 3.3 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 9.3 | 7.4 | 7.7 |
| 36% | 20% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 61% | 50% | 46% |
| 11.1 | 7.7 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 8 | 7.8 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
- 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 Motherwell.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Premiership
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most clean sheets (6) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most points (18) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (26) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (46) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the second half (25) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+19) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+35) 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 (6-0-0) in Premiership
- Motherwell have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Motherwell have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Motherwell have the fewest points (4) at home in Premiership
- Motherwell have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Premiership
- Motherwell have won significantly less corners at 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 | Celtic | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 35 | 36 |
| 2 | Rangers | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 29 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | Hearts | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 20 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -2 | 20 |
| 6 | St. Johnstone | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -2 | 19 |
| 7 | St. Mirren | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -6 | 19 |
| 8 | Livingston | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 19 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 10 | -1 | 16 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 10 | -12 | 12 |
| 11 | Ross County | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -14 | 12 |
| 12 | Dundee United | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -17 | 9 |
