Celtic vs St Mirren Match Analysis and Prediction

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Wednesday sees Celtic host St Mirren in the Scottish Premiership at Celtic Park. Match day set for 2^nd March 2022 22:45 EAT.

The Celts remain at the top of the Premiership table with 67 points from 28 games. The Celts are on a long streak of great performances, and they are scoring goals at a superb rate. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, the sum of 11 goals has been recorded for Celtic. Ange Postecoglou’s men have won in four of their last five fixtures and drew in one.

Celtic will be hoping to get back to winning ways after they were held to a goalless draw by Hibernian last time out. In that match, Celtic managed 61% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. At the other end, Hibernian had 2 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

The visitors meanwhile, sit eighth in the League standings with 33 points from 37 matches. In the last five fixtures, they recorded two wins, two draws and one loss. In their 6 latest matches, Stephen Robinson’s St Mirren scored a total of 9 times giving them the goals per game average of 1.5.

St Mirren and their fans will hope to get a better result this time following a 2-0 defeat to Heart. In that game, St Mirren had 37% possession and 6 shots at goal with 0 on target. On the other side, Hearts got 19 shots on goal with 9 on target. Ellis Simms (64′) and Cameron Devlin (67′) scored for Hearts.