📏 Form Guide

Livingston

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Livingston will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 Premiership loss in their previous game against Hibernian.

In that game, Livingston managed 43% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. Hibernian had 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Jordan Obita (5'), Myziane Maolida (7') and Adam Le Fondre (22') scored for Hibernian.

It has not been often in recent games that Livingston have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Livingston have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 14 goals during that time. Having said that, we will just have to wait and see if such a trend might persist in this next match or not.

Heading into this fixture, Livingston haven't won against Celtic in their previous 7 matches in the league.

Celtic

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Celtic come into this clash following on from a 3-1 Premiership win to defeat St Johnstone in their most recent outing.

In that game, Celtic had 74% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. For Celtic, the scorers were Kyogo Furuhashi (40'), Nicolas Kühn (46') and James Forrest (68'). St Johnstone got 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Connor Smith (81') was the scorer for St Johnstone.

A very clinical Celtic have racked up an abundance of goals over their last 6 clashes (18 to be precise). That has earned them an outstanding average of 3 goals scored per game over this period of time.

Going into this one, Celtic have not been beaten by Livingston when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results going back to 30/10/2022 reveals that these fixtures have not been kind to Livingston. They have not been able to register any victories at all while Celtic have been too good for them, getting wins in 100% of those matches.

20 goals were produced between them in this period, with 3 for Livi Lions and 17 for The Bhoys. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.33.

ℹ️ Team News: Livingston

The Livingston manager David Martindale has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever before this game with a completely healthy squad available for selection.

📋 Team News: Celtic

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has to choose a team with limited availability. Liam Scales (unknown injury) and Adam Montgomery (Hamstring injury) are those who can’t be considered.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Livingston have the capability to find the back of the net against this Celtic outfit, although one goal possibly won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re therefore tipping a 1-2 winning score for Celtic at the end of the 90 minutes. It should be a decent one.

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Victor Martins, 10:24 31/03/2024