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Rangers and Celtic meet at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, for the 21st round of the Scottish championship.
The record of clashes between Scotland’s two biggest rivals favors slightly, Celtic: in the 32 games played by this competition, the visiting team has won 14 wins, 5 draws and 13 defeats.
It is important to note that Rangers have not beaten rival Celtic for five consecutive games in 90-minute games.
Rangers
The Rangers team comes to this round with a 1-1 draw at St. Johnstone, registering in this way the fifth straight game without proving the taste of defeat: McKay’s only team goal was scored. At the moment the team of the house occupies the 2ª position of the championship, with 39 points, to 16 points of the opponent of this game.
Watching the 10 matches played at home it is possible to verify that Rangers scored on average 1.5 goals and suffered an average of 0.4 goals per game, thus demonstrating balance in both sectors. It is important to note that 70% of these games finished with less than two goals in the final scoreboard.
The best period for Mark Warburton’s players is between 46 ‘and 75’, when they scored 6 goals and conceded no goals. In the 6 games where they opened the scoring in this condition, in all these games won in the late 90 ‘.
Celtic
The team led by Brendan Rodgers arrives at this game with a 2-0 win at home to Ross, thus registering the fourteenth consecutive victory in this competition: the goals of victory were marked by Armstrong and Sviatchenko. At this moment the visitors continue in the leadership of the championship with 55 points conquered.
In the 10 games played in this condition Celtic scored on average 2.6 goals and suffered an average of 0.9 goals per game, that is, presents great competence in finalizing. 70% of the games played away from home ended with more than 2.5 goals in the final score.
In addition the visitors managed to open the scoring in 9 of the 10 games in these conditions, being that in 8 of these games they won in the late 90 ‘. It is also worth noting that Celtic scored the most goals in the last 15 ‘of the two games, scoring 14 goals and conceding 5 goals.
Prediction: Both Team To Score – Yes @ 1.77