Celtic take on the visitors St Johnstone in the round 18 match of Scottish Premiership. The match will be played on Saturday, December 24th at Celtic Park (Glasgow).
Celtic have become largely hostages of circumstances. After the Rangers went bankrupt, any serious, intelligible intrigue in the domestic arena disappeared. It's only in recent years, thanks largely to Gerrard's work, that competition in the Premiership has been resurrected. That's just, bringing the “light blue” the first title in 10 years, Stephen left for his homeland. And Postekoglu, who led the “Celts”, returned them to the 1st place. Now the opponent has lost points numerous times in the fall, under van Bronkhorst, that you can forget about some kind of struggle for title. Moreover, the hosts itself won 15 matches out of 16 before the pause for the World Cup. At the same time, the long-awaited return to the Champions League group stage turned out to be a failure: only 2 points, both due to draws with Shakhtar. That is, there is nothing to fight for either in the domestic arena or in the international arena
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St Johnstone relatively recently took all their major achievements. In 2014, it was possible to take the Scottish Cup. After 7 years, it turned out to be repeated. Moreover, they added 1 more title, the League Cup. In addition, in that period, the club played quite regularly in European competitions. More precisely, they started in the Europa League, often losing to the first opponent. A year later, following the results of last season, St. Johnstone was close to failure. They took less than a point per game, 35 in 38 matches - only Dundee's performance was worse. But according to the rules of the Premiership, the one who took 11th place is not relegated directly, but participle in the playoffs - and they managed to win. Now it turned out to add significantly. There is another, more pleasant struggle for high places and a pass to European competitions. On the one hand, the statistics are not particularly impressive: evenly, 7 wins and losses, negative goal difference, 21-22. There were unsuccessful segments, 4 defeats in 5 starting rounds, then lost three times in a row and in the first half of October. But now the unbeaten streak has been going on for 6 fights in a row.
The last time St. Johnstone won against the grand was in the spring of 2016, and took a draw in 2020. After that, Celtic took 7 wins in a row. Everyone is waiting only for the unconditional victory of Celtic. But it is unlikely that the players of the grand will be set to tear the veins for the holidays, and “St. Johnstone” will obviously try to focus on defense. It is worth betting on “total less than 3.5 goals”.
Prediction for the match: Under 3.5 scored goals.
