St. Johnstone delivered a 1-2 score vs Kilmarnock in their previous game, a fixture to remember. The next assignment is this fit Celtic team.
- Celtic have the most scored goals (27) in Premiership
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for St. Johnstone and Celtic.
St. Johnstone form and stats
When playing at home in the Premiership, St. Johnstone have managed 1 win, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games. When St. Johnstone hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like St. Mirren, Hibernian and Rangers), they have won 1 of 2 matches!
St. Johnstone faced defeat in their previous match, away at Kilmarnock (1-2). The first defeat after collecting points in three league games.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Dundee United and winning 2-1.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 St. Johnstone had similar winning odds as today, and found 4 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that St. Johnstone lost 2 similar games by at least two goals.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Johnstone here at McDiarmid Park in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 4 games). From these home matches, St. Johnstone have conceded only 2 goals.
Celtic form and stats
The visitors are W3-D0-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Two away matches in a row for Celtic, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 against RB Leipzig in the Champions League. The attacker Jota got a match rating of 7.82 in that game. Jota scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 23 successful passes (of 28 total).
Before that, Celtic secured a home win against Motherwell with the score 2-1.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Celtic given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 13 matches with 8 wins as expected, 3 draws and 2 surprise home wins. The favourites won 7 of these games by at least two goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting RB Leipzig in just three days.
Celtic are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (17 goals from 4 away games). It's not easy to score on Celtic as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Celtic have won all of the 6 most recent games versus this team. Something to take note of?Top Goalscorers
  K. Furuhashi 7 goals |  L. Abada 6 goals |  J. Neves Filipe 4 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Celtic missing players
| St. Johnstone | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | Scored | S | 17 | 17 | 27 |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 89% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 25% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 25% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 62% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 50% | 25% |
| 44% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 25% | 25% |
| 22% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 50% | 62% |
| 44% | 75% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 3.3 | 3.5 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10.3 | 9.5 | 7.6 |
| 6.2 | 6.5 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.3 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| 3.1 | 3.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8.6 | 8.8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 23 | 21.5 | 19.4 |
| 2.6 | 1.8 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 9.3 | 8.2 | 7.5 |
| 43% | 43% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 61% | 52% | 45% |
| 14.2 | 12 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 7 | 7.2 |
| 3.3 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
- All of Celtic's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Celtic have created more than twice as many corners as St. Johnstone.
- 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 St. Johnstone.
- Celtic have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most clean sheets (5) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (17) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals (27) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Premiership
- Celtic have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+14) away in Premiership
- Celtic have the the best goal difference (+23) in Premiership
- Celtic have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Celtic have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Celtic 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 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 23 | 21 |
| 2 | Rangers | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 19 |
| 3 | St. Mirren | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 15 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | Aberdeen | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 6 | Motherwell | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 7 | Hearts | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 8 | Livingston | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 9 | St. Johnstone | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 10 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | -11 | 7 |
| 11 | Ross County | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -14 | 5 |
| 12 | Dundee United | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -18 | 2 |
