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Passes Received (versus Dundee Utd)

Against Dundee Utd Carter-Vickers received the most passes receiving 110 with 52 of them coming from Starfelt with the next most to...

Tony McLaughlin

Feb 1, 20231 min read

Celtic v Livingston (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 86%, Livingston 3% and 11% for the draw. In Livingston’s last league game (home to Hearts) they...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 31, 20232 min read

Dundee Utd v Celtic (Match Stats)

Dundee Utd 0 xG 0.33 Celtic 2 xG 2.12 (Jota 51 and Mooy PEN 56) Usually most of Celtic's attacks come down the left hand side with the...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 30, 20232 min read

Dundee Utd v Celtic (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 76%, Dundee Utd 8% and 16% for the draw. In Dundee Utd’s last league game (away to Hibernian) they...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 27, 20232 min read

Celtic v Morton (Match Stats)

Celtic 5 xG 4.65 (Mooy 18 & 84, Turnbull 42 and Kyogo 21 & 45) Morton 0 xG 0.11 Five goals scored, a clean sheet, through to the next...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 22, 20232 min read

Celtic v Morton (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 89%, St Mirren 3% and 8% for the draw. Against Hamilton in their last game they lined up with the...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 20, 20232 min read

Celtic v St Mirren (Match Stats)

Celtic 4 xG 2.14 (Abada 15, Kyogo 35 & 53 and Turnbull 86) Kilmarnock 0 xG 0.47 I've been looking more closely at pass maps in the last...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 19, 20233 min read

Celtic v St Mirren (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 84%, St Mirren 4% and 12% for the draw. Celtic’s last 3 games against St Mirren have seen Celtic...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 17, 20232 min read

Celtic v Kilmarnock (Match Stats)

Celtic 2 xG 1.65 (Maeda 18 and Giakoumakis 90+5) Kilmarnock 0 xG 2.12 Similar to last week's game against Kilmarnock the majority of...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 15, 20233 min read

Celtic v Kilmarnock (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 81%, Kilmarnock 6% and 13% for the draw and that is down from 87% for Celtic on Saturday due to...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 13, 20233 min read

Celtic v Kilmarnock (Match Stats)

Celtic 2 xG 3.25 (Jota 45 and Taylor OG 51) Kilmarnock 0 xG 0.08 Celtic's xG was 3.25 with fotmob and 4.74 with Wyscout but I've used...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 8, 20232 min read

Celtic v Kilmarnock (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 87%, Kilmarnock 3% and 10% for the draw and that is the highest probabilities Celtic have been for...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 7, 20232 min read

Game State for SPFL 2022/2023 so far

Below is a graph of each team's game state in the SPFL so far. Some of it doesn't look right so if I have made any errors please let me...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 6, 20231 min read

Rangers v Celtic (Match Stats)

Rangers 2 xG 1.99 (Kent 47 and Tavernier 53 PEN) Celtic 2 xG 1.17 (Maeda 5 and Kyogo 88) Celtic lead the way early on for xG but...

Tony McLaughlin

Jan 3, 20233 min read

Rangers v Celtic (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic 41%, Rangers 33% and 26% for the draw. Below is a possession graph for each 5 minute period from...

Tony McLaughlin

Dec 30, 20223 min read

Hibernian v Celtic (Match Stats)

Hibernian 0 xG 0.55 Celtic 4 xG 2.47 (Mooy 28 & 58 PEN, Maeda 36 and Kyogo 64) 64% of Celtic's Non Penalty xG came in the 2nd half and...

Tony McLaughlin

Dec 29, 20221 min read

Celtic v St Johnstone (Match Stats)

Celtic 4 xG 2.86 (Hatate 14 & 52 and Kyogo 18 & 40) St Johnstone 1 xG 0.86 (Wright 66) Celtic's xGA of 0.86 was the third highest of the...

Tony McLaughlin

Dec 28, 20221 min read

Hibernian v Celtic (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are Celtic at 70%, Hibernian 11% and 19% for the draw. Below is Hibernian xPts trend for the season so far...

Tony McLaughlin

Dec 28, 20222 min read

Celtic v St Johnstone (Match Preview)

Probabilities for the match are the same as they were for the Livingston game with Celtic at 84%, St Johnstone 4% and 12% for the draw....

Tony McLaughlin

Dec 24, 20222 min read

Celtic v Livingston (Match Stats)

Celtic 2 xG 1.96 (Obileye OG 23 and Kyogo 45) Livingston 1 xG 0.28 (Devlin 45+2) Celtic's 2nd half xG was only 0.6 and that's the 2nd...

Tony McLaughlin

Dec 24, 20221 min read