Celtic welcome the visitors Hamilton in the Scottish Premiership – Round 23. The match will be held on Saturday, January 26th, at the Celtic Park (Glasgow).
After their loss to Rangers, Celtic did not drop points in the new year and have foreseeably gained two consecutive wins in the league and the cup fixtures with a total scoreline of 7:0. The games were held at Celtic’s arena, and it is a priori impossible for the opponents to play equal against the hosts at the Celtic park. No matter how weird it may sound, but Celtic need to rack up points to keep their leading position. The Europa League will kick off pretty soon. The breakaway should be increased to the maximum. Celtic sometimes have issues in outings, but within the comforts of home surroundings, they always feature the same outcome – a win, most often, a whitewash, in an overscoring match. The visiting Hamilton are not the right side to destroy Celtic’s plans. In this campaign, the hosts do not count many goal-fests indeed, but, fortunately, the Saturday opponent’s level provides for one.
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Unlike Celtic, Hamilton had a bad start to the year – they registered two losses with a total scoreline of 0:5. Their tally of four points picked up in eleven previous matches is a very sad record. They contrived to concede to Aberdeen in front of their own fans, so what can be expected in the meeting with Celtic then? The team are second-last by the goals made and second-last by the goals allowed. In this season’s head-to-heads, Hamilton lost 1:0 and 3:0, but they were more or less gaining points that time.
Do the hosts need to smash the opponent? Why not, actually? Celtic cannot play in a different way. But for the encounter with Rangers, within five latest matches, the champions netted at least thrice to stronger opponents. The odds even on the guests’ goal are over 2.5. Hamilton may possibly score despite everything. The standard Celtic’s overscoring match looks quite predictable.
Prediction for the match: Over 3.0 goals.
