Dundee vs Celtic Live Stream, Predictions

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Dundee

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Dundee prepare for this match following a 0-0 Premiership stalemate vs Rangers.

In that match, Dundee had 35% possession and 5 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Rangers had 17 shots on goal with 5 on target.

Over their preceding 6 games, Tony Docherty's Dundee have managed to score a total of 7 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 1.17.

Pre-game facts show that Dundee:

• haven't won against Celtic in their previous 38 league games. That has got to hurt.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

Celtic

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In their previous game, Celtic drew 3-3 in the Scottish Cup match with Aberdeen.

For Celtic, the scorers were Nicolas Kühn (21'), James Forrest (63') and Matt O'Riley (105'). Bojan Miovski (2'), Ester Sokler (90') and Angus MacDonald (119') scored for Aberdeen. Celtic won the match 6-5 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

In as many as 6 out of the previous 6 clashes involving Celtic, three or more goals have been struck. The overall average goals scored per match in that spell is 4.67, with the number of goals averaged by Celtic coming out as 3.17.

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

🤜🤛 Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head results stretching back to 08/08/2021 tells us that these encounters have been pretty painful for Dundee. They have not been able to get themselves any wins at all while Celtic have been dominant against them, getting wins in 100 per cent of those ties.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 31 in all at an average of 5.17 goals per meeting.

The last league fixture between these sides was Premiership match day 28 on 28/02/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Celtic 7-1 Dundee.

That time, Celtic had 75% possession and 17 shots on goal with 10 of them on target. Goals were scored by Cameron Carter-Vickers (7'), Adam Idah (18'), Matt O'Riley (22'), Daizen Maeda (30'), Greg Taylor (36'), Callum McGregor (45') and Daniel Kelly (63').

Dundee got 9 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Michael Mellon (84') scored.

The match was refereed by Matthew MacDermid.

ℹ️ Team News: Dundee

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Dundee gaffer Tony Docherty to contend with due to a largely intact group of players. Joe Shaughnessy (Knee injury) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Celtic

Due to a completely healthy squad available to select from, the Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has zero fitness worries at all before this game.

🔮 Prediction

In this match, Dundee have enough to find the net against this Celtic lineup, however a single goal might not be enough to prevent defeat.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a close game with a 1-2 winning margin for Celtic after 90 minutes. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:17 26/04/2024