📏 Form Guide

Aberdeen

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Aberdeen will be looking for an improved result here following the 3-0 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Kilmarnock.

In that game, Aberdeen managed 45% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For their opponents, Kilmarnock got 20 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Brad Lyons (12'), Bruce Anderson (14') and Tyreece John-Jules (59') scored for Kilmarnock.

An interesting aspect of recent Aberdeen games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their previous 6 matches leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on BTTS would have been a loser.

Coming into this contest, Aberdeen have left without a victory over Celtic in their last 27 league games. They'll surely be desperate to put an end to that run.

Celtic

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Celtic come into this encounter after a 2-0 Premiership win against Falkirk in their previous game.

In that game, Celtic managed 58% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Celtic, the goalscorers were Tomáš Čvančara (39') and Benjamin Nygren (62'). On the other side, Falkirk had 14 shots at goal with 4 on target.

In their last half-dozen outings, Celtic have helped themselves to a total of 13 goals. Celtic have also scored in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have had 6 goals scored by their opponents. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that trend might continue on in this game or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Celtic:

• remain unbeaten by Aberdeen when they've played them away from home in the last 18 matches in the league. A simply stunning run of away results.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

Looking over past results between these clubs going back to 04/12/2024 tells us that these fixtures have not been good ones for Aberdeen. They have not been able to get themselves any wins at all whereas Celtic have simply been better than them, winning in 83 per cent of those match-ups.

A total of 21 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 4 from The Dons and 17 created by The Bhoys. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

The previous league contest featuring the two was Premiership match day 18 on 21/12/2025 when it finished Celtic 3-1 Aberdeen.

That time, Celtic had 73% possession and 31 attempts on goal with 10 on target. The goalscorers were Benjamin Nygren (39'), Kieran Tierney (88') and James Forrest (92').

Aberdeen got 10 shots at goal with 2 on target. Kenan Bilalović (74') scored.

The match was refereed by David Dickinson.

📰 Team News: Aberdeen

It seems likely that The Dons will probably use a 4-2-3-1 formation with Dimitar Mitov, Alexander Jensen, Nicky Devlin, Liam Morrison, Mitchel Frame, Stuart Armstrong, Sivert Nilsen, Toyosi Olusanya, Lyall Cameron, Topi Keskinen and Kevin Nisbet.

🗞️ Team News: Celtic

Celtic manager Martin O'Neill has a number of players out of action. Cameron Carter-Vickers (Achilles tendon problems), Alistair Johnston (Hamstring muscle injury), Callum Osmand (Hamstring muscle injury), Adam Montgomery (Calf injury) and Jota (Cruciate ligament surgery) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We reckon that The Bhoys seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 lineup by sending out Kasper Schmeichel, Julian Araujo, Auston Trusty, Liam Scales, Kieran Tierney, Benjamin Nygren, Arne Engels, Callum McGregor, Hyun-jun Yang, Tomas Cvancara and Daizen Maeda.

💭 Prediction

Our feeling is that Aberdeen are capable enough to put one past this Celtic outfit, but one goal may not quite be enough to avoid defeat.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-2 advantage for Celtic when the full-time whistle blows. Let’s see what happens here.

Victor Martins, 02:02 04/02/2026