📊 Form Guide

Celtic

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Celtic prepare for this fixture following a 3-3 Premiership tied result vs Rangers.

In that match, Celtic had 46% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Celtic, the goals were scored by Daizen Maeda (1'), Matt O'Riley (34') and Adam Idah (87'). For their opponents, Rangers got 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. James Tavernier (55'), Abdallah Sima (86') and Rabbi Matondo (93') scored for Rangers.

Celtic have been offensively very strong recently, smashing 20 goals past the opposition over the course of their last six outings. In those games, Celtic have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 9. That trend won’t necessarily be continued into this game, though.

Leading up to this clash, Celtic:

• haven't been beaten in the league by St Mirren in their previous 5 games.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 league matches at home.

St Mirren

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After a losing effort in their last game against Hearts in Premiership competition, St Mirren will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, St Mirren had 58% possession and 6 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. For St Mirren, the scorers were Mikael Mandron (62' Own goal) and Toyosi Olusanya (68'). Hearts got 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Jorge Grant (33') was the scorer for Hearts.

The stats tell the story, and St Mirren have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in all. In defence, St Mirren seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Pre-game facts show that St Mirren:

• have not beaten Celtic when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. Not good at all.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of past results between these clubs going back to 11/02/2023 reveals that these encounters have not been kind to St Mirren. They have not been able to get themselves any victories at all while Celtic have been too good for them, running out winners in 83 per cent of those ties.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 24 overall which averages out at 4 goals per match.

📰 Team News: Celtic

Looking at personnel, there is just one fitness concern for the Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers to contend with due to a largely intact group. Adam Montgomery (Hamstring injury) is out of contention.

It seems likely that The Bhoys will possibly make use of the 4-3-3 formation in the match with Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, C. Carter-Vickers, Maik Nawrocki, Greg Taylor, Matt O'Riley, Tomoki Iwata, Reo Hatate, Nicolas Kühn, Adam Idah and Kyogo Furuhashi.

🗞️ Team News: St Mirren

Owing to a completely injury-free group available to choose from, the St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson has zero fitness concerns at all before this match.

We’re of the thinking that The Buddies appear most likely to elect for a 3-4-3 formation, starting the game with Zach Hemming, Marcus Fraser, Alexandros Gogic, Richard Taylor, Elvis Bwomono, Hyeok-kyu Kwon, Caolan Boyd-Munce, Scott Tanser, Toyosi Olusanya, Mikael Mandron and Greg Kiltie.

✨ Prediction

St Mirren will do really well to be putting goals past a Celtic outfit who seem set to fashion the chances to find the net multiple times while not conceding.

We’re going for a 3-0 victory for Celtic at full-time.

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Lucas Pereira, 13:01 13/04/2024