📊 Form Guide

Celtic

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Celtic go into this game after a 1-1 Premiership tied result against Rangers.

In that game, Celtic managed 60% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Celtic was Adam Idah (57'). At the other end, Rangers got 12 shots at goal with 4 on target. Cyriel Dessers (44') was the scorer for Rangers.

Celtic have been so strong in attack in recent times, putting 19 goals past the opposition during the course of their previous 6 matches. In those meetings, Celtic have also seen the aggregate sum of goals scored against them total 3.

Coming into this contest, Celtic haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Hibernian

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Hibernian will go into the game following on from a 3-1 Premiership win against Dundee United in their last match.

In that game, Hibernian had 46% possession and 16 shots at goal with 9 on target. For Hibernian, the goalscorers were Martin Boyle (3'), Mykola Kuharevich (14') and Dwight Gayle (87'). Dundee United got 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Kristijan Trapanovski (50') scored for Dundee United.

A succession of outstanding performances from the Hibernian defensive unit has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 3 from their previous 6 fixtures in total. Over that same time, their forwards have scored 13. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Going into this encounter, Hibernian have not won against Celtic when they have played them away from home in the previous 19 league matches. A shocking away run it has been.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 07/02/2024 tells us that Celtic have won 5 of them and Hibernian 1, with the number of draws standing at 0.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 13 for The Bhoys and 4 for The Hibees. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

🗞️ Team News: Celtic

It seems likely that The Bhoys could use a 4-3-3 system for this game, utilising Viljami Sinisalo, Tony Ralston, Auston Trusty, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, Arne Engels, Callum McGregor, Reo Hatate, James Forrest, Adam Idah and Daizen Maeda.

📰 Team News: Hibernian

We believe The Hibees will likely play in a 3-4-1-2 formation, settling for Jordan Smith, Warren O' Hora, Rocky Bushiri, Jack Iredale, Chris Cadden, Nectarios Triantis, Dylan Levitt, Jordan Obita, Junior Hoilett, Martin Boyle and Mykola Kukharevych.

🔮 Prediction

It certainly seems that Hibernian won’t find it easy at all to be scoring even one goal against a Celtic team who have the quality to win well here.

We think that it’s going to be a commanding 3-0 margin for Celtic after 90 minutes.

Lucas Pereira, 13:11 10/05/2025