📏 Form Guide

Celtic

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Celtic will be looking for another win after the 1-5 Premiership victory against Aberdeen.

In that game, Celtic had 69% possession and 25 shots at goal with 14 of them on target. For Celtic, the scorers were Maik Nawrocki (31'), Hyun-jun Yang (45'), Luke McCowan (48'), Johnny Kenny (54') and Adam Idah (94'). At the other end, Aberdeen got 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Kevin Nisbet (42') scored for Aberdeen.

Matches featuring Celtic have usually been entertaining affairs lately with high scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past half dozen games alone, a grand total of 25 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 4.17 goals per game) with 21 of them accredited to Celtic.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Celtic:

• have not lost a league tie with St Mirren in their previous 10 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 home league matches.

St Mirren

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In the game prior to this, St Mirren drew 2-2 in the Premiership tie with Hibernian.

In that match, St Mirren had 52% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For St Mirren, the scorers were Richard Taylor (45') and Conor McMenamin (64'). Hibernian had 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. Martin Boyle (3') and Mykola Kuharevich (10') scored for Hibernian.

Throughout their 6 most recent matches, Stephen Robinson's St Mirren have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 10 times therefore earning them a goals per game average of 1.67.

Coming into this contest, St Mirren have not registered a win against Celtic in away games against them for the last 8 league games. Very poor away form.

↔️ Head to head

Delving into past results between these clubs going back to 11/02/2024 shows that these fixtures have not been fruitful for St Mirren. They’ve not managed to come away with any wins at all while Celtic have maintained the edge over them, finishing as winners in 100% of those ties.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 23 overall at an average of 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 29 on 01/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of St Mirren 2-5 Celtic.

That time, St Mirren had 25% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorers were Declan John (33') and Killian Phillips (48').

At the other end, Celtic had 18 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. Jeff Schlupp (28'), Arne Engels (45'), Hyun-jun Yang (68', 93') and Daizen Maeda (88') scored.

The referee was Matthew MacDermid.

🗞️ Team News: Celtic

It looks as if The Bhoys will possibly make use of the 4-3-3 formation, beginning the first half with Kasper Schmeichel, Alistair Johnston, Auston Trusty, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, James Forrest, Paulo Bernardo, Callum McGregor, Nicolas Kühn, Adam Idah and Daizen Maeda.

ℹ️ Team News: St Mirren

It’s our belief that The Buddies will likely play in a 3-5-2 formation by sending out Zach Hemming, Alexandros Gogic, Richard Taylor, Marcus Fraser, Ryan Alebiosu, Roland Idowu, Killian Phillips, Caolan Boyd-Munce, Declan John, Mikael Mandron and Jonah Ayunga.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Celtic will most probably get a couple of goals in this one when they face St Mirren, who will be up against it to get a goal of their own.

Our tip is for a fairly comfortable 2-0 victory for Celtic at full-time.

Victor Martins, 11:05 17/05/2025