About Match
The table gap is wide: 17 points between Celtic (1st, 18 pts) and Kilmarnock (12th, 1 pts). Per game in the league, Celtic score 2.33 and conceding 0.5, Kilmarnock 0.8 and 2.8, against a competition average of 1.3 goals per team per game. A win here leaves Kilmarnock on 4 points and up to 10th, other results permitting.
Celtic have banked 12 of the last 15 points on offer; Kilmarnock, 5.
40 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Celtic 31, draws 6, Kilmarnock 3, at 3.2 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings. Where history says 3.2 goals per meeting, the last five say 4.8.
Celtic Park in Glasgow stages the fixture, a ground that holds 60,411.