Celtic 3
xG 2.71
(Carter-Vickers 64, Ajeti 70 and 85)
Ross County 0
xG 0.5
Before kick off our probabilities of winning the game were 87%, a defeat 3% and draw 10%.
Our team line up was;
- 15 Hart
- 88 Juranovic, 20 Carter-Vickers, 4 Starfelt and 3 Taylor
- 18 Rogic, 42 McGregor and 14 Turnbull
- 11 Abada, 10 Ajeti and 17 Jota
Carter-Vickers and Jota both coming in for their debuts. Montgomery, Soro and McCarthy all made an appearance as subs.
The average positions of each player are opposite.
Starfelt had the most touches of the ball at 129 closely followed by Carter-Vickers on 122. Starfelt had the most accurate passes at 109 and with an accuracy of 91% with Taylor and Montgomery both having 93% accuracy. Hart had 100% accuracy on 41 passes.
Ajeti scored 2 goals from 3 shots and an xG of 1.59 while Abada had 0.70 xA from 3 key passes. 1.02 of our xG came in the first half and 1.69 came in the second half.
40% of our attacks came down the left and 30% came down the right hand side.
Our most dominant period of the game for possession came in the first 15 minutes where we had 187 touches and 83% possession and Ross County had 66 touches. We then struggled to find our way through the Ross County defensive set up and possession dropped in the rest of the first half.
Overall we had 77% and 941 touches.
Our best spells for accuracy were in the first 15 minutes of each half with 91%.
Overall we had 669 accurate passes at 89% and we allowed Ross County to have 64% passing accuracy.
Carter-Vickers was WhoScored man of the match with a rating of 8.7 with Ajeti closed behind on 8.6. FotMob had them the other way round with Ajeti top on 8.8 and Carter-Vickers on 8.6. Both had Starfelt third best on 7.7 and 8.2 respectively.
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