📏 Form Guide

Kilmarnock

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Kilmarnock won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 3-2 Premiership loss in their previous game against Dundee.

In that match, Kilmarnock had 45% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Kilmarnock, the goalscorers were Bruce Anderson (24') and Matty Kennedy (40'). For their opponents, Dundee had 17 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Seb Palmer-Houlden (41'), Jordan McGhee (56') and Ziyad Larkeche (94') scored for Dundee.

Kilmarnock have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, but they’ve also done enough to hit the back of the net themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Kilmarnock have been punished defensively in 5 of them as well as scoring in 6 of those games. However, time will tell whether such a trend might be replicated in this upcoming match.

Their past results show that Kilmarnock:

• haven't beaten Celtic in their previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Celtic

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Celtic come into this encounter following a 3-1 Champions League win against RB Leipzig in their previous fixture.

In that game, Celtic managed 60% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Celtic, the scorers were Nicolas Kühn (35', 45') and Reo Hatate (72'). RB Leipzig got 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Christoph Baumgartner (23') was the scorer for RB Leipzig.

A series of hard-working showings from the Celtic defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 3 from their last 6 outings combined. In that period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 16.

Coming into this meeting, Celtic are undefeated in their last 9 league matches away from home. They've been so good on the road.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 20/08/2023 shows us that Kilmarnock have won 2 of these & Celtic 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A sum of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 5 of them for Killie and 14 belonging to The Bhoys. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league game between the two was Premiership match day 1 on 04/08/2024 and the score finished Celtic 4-0 Kilmarnock.

On that occasion, Celtic managed 82% possession and 32 attempts at goal with 13 of them on target. Goals were scored by Reo Hatate (17'), Liam Scales (40'), Nicolas Kühn (59') and Anthony Ralston (94').

For their opponents, Kilmarnock got 5 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Don Robertson.

📰 Team News: Kilmarnock

We are thinking that Killie will possibly opt for a 3-5-2 formation for this one, utilising Robby McCrorie, Lewis Mayo, Robbie Deas, Joe Wright, Daniel Armstrong, David Watson, Brad Lyons, Matthew Kennedy, Corrie Ndaba, Kyle Vassell and Bruce Anderson.

📰 Team News: Celtic

We reckon that The Bhoys appear most likely to elect for a 4-3-3 system, giving starts to Kasper Schmeichel, Alistair Johnston, C. Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, Arne Engels, Reo Hatate, Paulo Bernardo, Nicolas Kühn, Kyogo Furuhashi and Daizen Maeda.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Kilmarnock will manage to breach the defence of this Celtic team, but a single goal may not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re therefore expecting a 1-2 advantage for Celtic at full-time. Looking forward to seeing how this one unfolds.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 14:02 10/11/2024