📊 Form Guide

Celtic

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Celtic will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-3 Premiership loss in their previous game against Rangers.

In that game, Celtic managed 72% possession and 14 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Celtic, the scorers were Daizen Maeda (49') and Reo Hatate (74'). At the other end, Rangers got 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Nicolas Raskin (4'), Mohamed Diomande (37') and Hamza Igamane (88') scored for Rangers.

Celtic have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, although they have also done enough to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Celtic have been punished defensively in 5 of them as well as scoring in 6 of those matches.

Ahead of this clash, Celtic have not been beaten in the league by Hearts in their last 3 games.

Hearts

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Hearts head into the game following a 2-0 Premiership win in the defeat of Ross County in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Hearts had 63% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. For Hearts, the goalscorers were Elton Kabangu (26') and Jorge Grant (89'). Ross County had 5 shots on goal with 1 on target.

Illustrating their involvement in high-scoring matches, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the last six matches in which Hearts have taken to the field, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals each fixture. Opposing teams have managed 8 from this total. Historical results aside, we will just have to wait and see whether such a trend might be sustained here in this match.

Coming into this meeting, Hearts haven't beaten Celtic in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 22/10/2023 shows us that Celtic have won 4 of these games and Hearts 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

A combined total of 19 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 13 from The Bhoys and 6 netted by The Jam Tarts. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The last league meeting between the two was Premiership match day 13 on 23/11/2024 and the score finished Hearts 1-4 Celtic.

That time, Hearts had 32% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Musa Drammeh (82').

On the other side, Celtic got 13 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Kyogo Furuhashi (55'), Nicolas Kühn (60') and Adam Idah (78', 94') scored.

The referee was Steven McLean.

ℹ️ Team News: Celtic

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers to contend with from a near full-strength group. Liam Scales (Facial injury) is sidelined.

📰 Team News: Hearts

Hearts manager Neil Critchley has to choose a team with limited availability. Stephen Kingsley (Hamstring muscle injury) and Frankie Kent (Torn muscle bundle) miss out here.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Hearts have it in them to get a goal against this Celtic lineup, although that probably won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 win for Celtic after 90 minutes. Looking forward to seeing how this one unfolds.

Renata Leite, 14:02 29/03/2025