📊 Form Guide

Rangers

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Rangers will be looking for another win after the 3-1 Premiership success against Hibernian.

In that match, Rangers had 60% possession and 24 shots on goal with 8 on target. For Rangers, the goalscorers were James Tavernier (26'), Cyriel Dessers (45') and Rabbi Matondo (85'). Hibernian got 6 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Myziane Maolida (45') scored for Hibernian.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Rangers have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Rangers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 7 goals on the way.

Ahead of this meeting, Rangers haven't won against Celtic in their last 2 league games.

Celtic

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Celtic will go into the encounter following a 0-3 Premiership win versus Livingston in their most recent game.

In that game, Celtic had 76% possession and 21 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. For Celtic, the goals were scored by Paulo Bernardo (72') and Matt O'Riley (82'). On the other side, Livingston got 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Jamie Brandon (49' Own goal) scored for Livingston.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games featuring Celtic, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell is 4.5, with the average number of goals for Celtic coming out as 3.33. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 26/02/2023 shows that Rangers have won 1 of these games & Celtic 5, with the number of drawn results being 0.

A combined total of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 from The Gers and 9 being from The Bhoys. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 21 on 30/12/2023 when it finished Celtic 2-1 Rangers.

That day, Celtic had 56% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorers were Paulo Bernardo (25') and Kyogo Furuhashi (47').

Rangers had 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. James Tavernier (88') was the scorer.

The referee was Nick Walsh.

📋 Team News: Rangers

Ryan Jack (Muscle injury), Kieran Dowell (surgery) and Óscar Cortés (Muscle injury) will not be able to play for Rangers gaffer Philippe Clement.

In all likelihood, The Gers will possibly make use of the 4-3-3 system for this one with Jack Butland, James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, John Souttar, Borna Barisic, Mohamed Diomande, John Lundstram, Todd Cantwell, Scott Wright, Cyriel Dessers and Fábio Silva.

📋 Team News: Celtic

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s only the sole fitness issue for the Celtic gaffer Brendan Rodgers to be concerned about. Adam Montgomery (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

We are inclined to think that The Bhoys appear most likely to play in a 4-3-3 lineup, starting Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, C. Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, Matt O'Riley, Tomoki Iwata, Reo Hatate, Nicolas Kühn, Kyogo Furuhashi and Daizen Maeda.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Celtic should be able to find the net against this Rangers team, although that may not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

Our selection here is for a narrow 2-1 winning margin for Rangers by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Looking forward to this.

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Lucas Pereira, 10:17 07/04/2024