St. Johnstone will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 28 points behind Celtic.
- St. Johnstone has the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Premiership
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the second half (37) in Premiership
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premiership. That game was also an away game, at St. Mirren. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
St. Johnstone form and stats
St. Johnstone's struggle is real here at McDiarmid Park with only 13 points collected from 13 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-4-6.
Happy days for Johnstone in their previous game, a Premiership match away at Livingston (placed 5th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Prior to that, an away loss at Rangers.
Johnstone have scored 5 goals here in 13 league matches, a depressing statistic. Johnstone have only conceded 11 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic, who have the most scored goals (33) away in Premiership, have an excellent away record in the Premiership so far with 8-4-1 from 13 games. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Celtic are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Celtic play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-0 victory visiting St. Mirren (placed 6th). A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Motherwell.
As you can tell from the results above, Celtic was very dominant against St. Mirren, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Ryan Christie, Tom Rogić, Odsonne Édouard and David Turnbull providing the goals.
A new game in only three days for Celtic, the Premiership home match versus Aberdeen. Busy days.
Celtic create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 33 goals in 13 travels. Celtic are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 11 times in 13 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Celtic - Johnstone 1-1 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's zero St. Johnstone victories, one draw and nine Celtic wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  O. Édouard 13 goals |  M. Elyounoussi 7 goals |  A. Ajeti 6 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Celtic missing players
| St. Johnstone | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 27 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 9 | 33 | 61 |
| 37 | 11 | 5 | Conceded | C | 3 | 11 | 21 |
| 89% | 77% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 61% | 31% | 25% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 85% | 89% |
| 39% | 15% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 69% | 59% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 54% | 33% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 23% | 19% |
| 46% | 15% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 46% | 44% |
| 21% | 46% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 46% | 48% |
| 43% | 62% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.9 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 11.2 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18.8 | 17.3 | 17.4 |
| 2.9 | 1.8 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 6.4 | 6.3 |
| 34% | 21% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 40% | 36% |
- Celtic has the most scored goals (33) away in Premiership
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the second half (37) in Premiership
- 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 haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- St. Johnstone has the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rangers | 28 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 68 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 60 | 76 |
| 2 | Celtic | 27 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 61 | 21 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 11 | 40 | 58 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 28 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 39 | 26 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 49 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 28 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 44 |
| 5 | Livingston | 27 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 35 | 31 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 39 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 32 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 13 | -6 | 32 |
| 7 | Dundee United | 28 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 23 | 38 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -15 | 31 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 37 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 26 | -10 | 30 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 27 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 39 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 | -14 | 28 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 28 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 26 | 40 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 20 | -14 | 24 |
| 11 | Ross County | 28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 53 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 26 | -32 | 23 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 26 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 52 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 29 | -29 | 20 |