Glasgow fight in Premiership: Action and drama expected in the Old Firm

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These teams both come from Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland. The two teams are by far the most popular and successful in the country, and their rivalry is a classic in Scottish culture which also reflects political, social and religious differences. It’s called the Old Firm whenever these two meet, and the meetings are rarely without drama.

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.

This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.

Rangers form and stats

Home games in the Premiership have been a walk in the park for Rangers so far, with 30 points won from 10 matches; 10 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Rangers has won 13 games in a row. The Hibernian match was the last time out without a victory.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Allan McGregor not having conceded a league goal in 354 minutes.

Happy days for Rangers in their previous game, a Premiership match away at St. Mirren (placed 8th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Before that, Rangers had a home game versus Hibernian which ended with a victory 1-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rangers handle that role? We have found one game in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are one win, zero draws and zero defeats.

Rangers always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Ibrox Stadium with 32 goals in 10 league games. As for guarding their own goal, Rangers have only let in 1 goal at home. It's worth mentioning that 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Celtic form and stats

Celtic's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Celtic collect 21 points from their 9 away matches in the Premiership. 6 victories and 3 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats). Celtic are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played nine in a row without losing. The fact that Celtic have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Celtic have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Vasileios Barkas. It's been 371 minutes since they last conceded in Premiership.

Odsonne Édouard, David Turnbull and Ismaila Soro scored in Celtic's previous match, the home game against Dundee United that ended 3-0. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hamilton Academical at their stadium, the result 3-0.

We have checked recent matches where Celtic have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were one victory, one draw and one defeat.

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 23 goals in 9 league games away this season. It's not easy to score on Celtic as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Celtic - Rangers 0-2 earlier this season. Rangers-Celtic H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rangers four wins, Celtic six wins, zero draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

J. Tavernier 11 goals

K. Roofe 10 goals

O. Édouard 7 goals

Rangers missing players

Celtic missing players