2017/2018
| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | 15 | W1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 10/15 | 10-9 |
| Anderlecht | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9/15 | 9-5 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2003-10-20 – 2017-09-27) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-27 | Anderlecht | 0-3 | Celtic |
| 2003-11-04 | Celtic | 3-1 | Anderlecht |
| 2003-10-20 | Anderlecht | 1-0 | Celtic |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | 4 | 6 | 3 | -13 | WLLLL | 23 | -19 |
| Anderlecht | 3 | 6 | 3 | -15 | LLLLW | 23 | -20 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2017-12-05
Nothing between them on points: 3 each, with Celtic 4th and Anderlecht 3rd. On recent form Anderlecht sat only 23rd league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Celtic 0.83 scored and 3 conceded per game, Anderlecht 0.33 and 2.83, with the league averaging 1.59.
Celtic Park in Glasgow, capacity 60,411, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.
