Ross County will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 23 points behind Celtic.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Europa League game only three days ago.
Ross County form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. Ross County, who have the most conceded goals (34) in Premiership, have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from their games here at Global Energy Stadium. Ross County are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Global Energy Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.
The fans are hoping that Ross County will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Premiership game against St. Mirren (placed 11th). Ahead of that match, Ross County lost 1-3 at home to Aberdeen.
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 Ross County had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 1. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Ross County lost 1 similar game by at least two goals.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Premiership game versus Hibernian in only three days. This game is also played here at Global Energy Stadium.
Ross County are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Ross County have allowed the opposition to score 18 goals here at Global Energy Stadium.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Celtic, who have the most scored goals (44) in Premiership, collect 16 points from their 7 away matches in the Premiership. 5 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat). Celtic have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena.
467 minutes! That's how long the Celtic goalkeeper Matija Sarkic and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Celtic are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Europa League against Rennes. Prior to that match, a home win 4-0 against Livingston in the Premiership.
Goalkeeper Fraser Forster was absolutely vital in the Celtic victory against Rennes, making 7 saves.
As mentioned earlier, Celtic will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 9 wins (7 by two or more goals winning margin), 5 draws and 1 surprising defeat.
A quick return to home after this game, as Celtic are hosting Hamilton Academical in the Premiership only three days away.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Celtic are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's not easy to score on Celtic as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Ross County - Celtic 1-4. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 0 Ross County victories, 2 draws and 8 Celtic wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  O. Édouard 9 goals |  J. Forrest 7 goals |  R. Christie 6 goals |
Ross County missing players
Celtic missing players
| Ross County | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 13 | 40 |
| 30 | 14 | 7 | Conceded | C | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 54% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 54% |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 57% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 31% |
| 21% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 36% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 8% |
| 4.3 | 4.8 | 1.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.5 | 6.5 |
| 6.2 | 5.2 | 3.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0.5 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 92 | 40 | 5 | Total Shots | T S | 37 | 87 | 196 |
| 39 | 19 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 29 | 90 |
| 41% | 47% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 10% | 45% | 44% |
- All of Ross County's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Celtic has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3)
- Celtic has the most clean sheets (8)
- Celtic has the most scored goals (44)
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the first half (17)
- Celtic has the the best goal difference (+36)
- Celtic have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Celtic have scored more than double the goals of Ross County.
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ross County has the fewest matches under the total-line (2)
- Ross County has the most conceded goals (18) at home
- Ross County has the most conceded goals (34)
- Ross County has the most matches over the total-line (12)
- Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home
- Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ross County haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Ross County is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| 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 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 36 | 37 |
| 2 | Rangers | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 30 | 34 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 28 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 25 |
| 5 | Kilmarnock | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 22 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 15 | -4 | 19 |
| 7 | Livingston | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | -7 | 14 |
| 8 | Ross County | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | -17 | 14 |
| 9 | Hamilton Academical | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 12 |
| 10 | Hearts | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | St. Mirren | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 17 | -10 | 11 |
| 12 | St. Johnstone | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | -20 | 11 |