It's early days in the Premiership and both St. Mirren and Celtic are still hoping for a flying start in order to set the tone for the season. Three points can make a big difference at this stage.
St. Mirren form and stats
Only two Premiership home games for St. Mirren so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.
Mirren lost their last game at St. Johnstone (placed 7th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Before that, Mirren drew at home versus Ross County.
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. Mirren had similar winning odds as today, and found four games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew one and lost three. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that St. Mirren lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Early season league goal statistics from St. Mirren's 2 home games: 2 goals, 1 conceded.
Celtic form and stats
Celtic are still undefeated on their travels in the Premiership. They have only played two games though, winning one and drawing the other.
The Celtic goalkeeper Vasileios Barkas is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 246 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Celtic go into this game after a win, the home game against Motherwell that ended 3-0. Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Ferencvaros.
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 18 matches with 14 wins as expected, three draws and one surprise home win. The favourites won nine of these games by at least two goals.
2 goals so far away for Celtic, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): St. Mirren zero wins, one draw and Celtic nine victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  O. Édouard 3 goals |   J. Obika 2 goals |  A. Ajeti 2 goals |
St. Mirren missing players
Celtic missing players
| St. Mirren | Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 75% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 20% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.2 | 2.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 6 | 7.5 |
| 7.2 | 4.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 3.5 | 4.5 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | 17 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 23 | 36 | 81 |
| 19 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 11 | 31 |
| 16% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 18% | 32% |
- Celtic has the most scored goals in the second half (6)
- St. Mirren has the fewest matches over the total-line (0)
| St. Mirren | Last season | Celtic | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Won | W | 12 | 26 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 15 | 4 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 24 | 13 | Scored | S | 39 | 89 | ||
| 41 | 13 | Conceded | C | 12 | 19 | ||
| 83% | 73% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 57% | 47% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 97% | ||
| 43% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 73% | ||
| 13% | 7% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 47% | 50% | ||
| 10% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 23% | ||
| 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 47% | ||
| 33% | 53% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 50% | ||
| 43% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 7% | 3% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.6 | 7.4 | ||
| 6.3 | 5.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.1 | 2.7 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 280 | 150 | Total Shots | T S | 239 | 498 | ||
| 87 | 39 | Shots on Target | S O | 84 | 209 | ||
| 28% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 43% | ||
| 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 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 16 |
| 2 | Hibernian | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| 3 | Celtic | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Ross County | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 7 | St. Johnstone | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 7 |
| 8 | Dundee United | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 | Livingston | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 3 |
| 12 | Motherwell | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -6 | 2 |