Celtic vs Ross County Predictions

• Celtic have won their last six home Premiership contests against Ross County, each time with a clean sheet.
• Only 21% of Celtic’s home league games in 2020-21 featured more than three goals.
• Just 26% of Ross County’s away league games last season featured more than three goals.

Reasons to be conservative with Celtic goal expectation

Celtic have been brilliant at home this season with five wins out of five in all competitions and a glut of goals scored.

Ange Postecoglu’s side thrashed Dundee and St Mirren 6-0 in both of their previous home league games so Ross County could be fearful of getting turned over by a wide margin this Saturday.

The Staggies have generally avoided that fate on their recent trips to the east end of Glasgow, however, and even beat Celtic 2-0 at Parkhead in the League Cup last season.

Their league record isn’t so clever with six straight defeats and no goals scored since a 1-1 draw in 2016, so we aren’t expecting them to pull off another shock.

Malky Mackay’s men are a much-changed outfit from last season and there were signs that his new players can compete with the big boys in their last two league outings.

They went toe-to-toe with the champions in Dingwall before going down 4-2 to Rangers just prior to seeing their hopes of a win at Aberdeen dashed by an 88th-minute equaliser.

Although Celtic have scored 12 in their last two home league games combined, they faced sides that were reduced to ten men in each game and the key to Ross County keeping the score down on Saturday will be discipline.

If they can keep their heads, we like their chances of the Staggies keeping Celtic to under four goals this weekend – as they have done in four of their last six league visits.