📊 Form Guide

Celtic

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Celtic will be wanting a better result here following the 1-0 Premiership defeat last time out to St Johnstone.

In that match, Celtic managed 80% possession and 25 attempts at goal with 9 on target. St Johnstone got 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Daniels Balodis (4') was the scorer for St Johnstone.

Matches featuring Celtic have often been exciting affairs lately with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past six games alone, a grand total of 24 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 17 of them accredited to Celtic. Regardless, we must now wait to see if the trend might persist here in this match.

Going into this encounter, Celtic have not been beaten in the league by Kilmarnock in their previous 4 games.

Kilmarnock

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Kilmarnock come into this clash following a 2-0 Premiership win to defeat Motherwell in their last game.

In that match, Kilmarnock managed 54% possession and 17 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. For Kilmarnock, the goalscorers were Fraser Murray (22') and Joe Wright (53'). At the other end, Motherwell had 4 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Kilmarnock have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals in total. In defence, Kilmarnock have seen their frailties exposed.

Taking a look at their past results, Kilmarnock:

• haven't won against Celtic when they have played them away from home in the previous 18 league games. A truly shameful run of away results.
• are without an away win for the past 10 league matches. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 10/12/2023 shows us that Celtic have won 4 of these & Kilmarnock 1, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A total of 19 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 15 of them for The Bhoys and 4 created by Killie. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

ℹ️ Team News: Celtic

Regarding absentees, there’s just one fitness concern for the Celtic gaffer Brendan Rodgers to contend with due to a largely intact set of players. Liam Scales (Facial injury) is sidelined.

📰 Team News: Kilmarnock

Thanks to a largely healthy squad, there’s only the lone fitness issue for the Kilmarnock manager Derek McInnes to be concerned about. Stuart Findlay (Ankle injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

For this match, we think that Celtic can and should see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Kilmarnock might well find it a difficult task to get shooting opportunities although we do think that they will probably end up being dangerous at times.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a pretty comfortable 3-1 margin for Celtic at the end of this one.

Renata Leite, 11:03 12/04/2025