Celtic’s domestic dominance continued last weekend as they hosted Inverness CT in the Scottish FA Cup, with Moussa Dembele bagging his second consecutive hat-trick as the hosts hammered the struggling visitors 6-0.
This makes it a ridiculous 13 wins on the bounce for them, and in domestic competitions alone they have now won 24 on the bounce and have only failed to win once this season. This leaves them 24 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership with 70 points from their opening 24 games. A 100 point tally is well within their reach here in what has been a phenomenal season for Celtic.
Brendan Rodgers’ side did have a very slight dip in form earlier in the season as they struggled to find the net as often as we were used to, but they seem well and truly over that now. They have scored 16 goals in their last four matches, and at home they have kept a clean sheet in six consecutive games.
This is extremely bad news for Motherwell. The visitors would never expect to get anything from this match, but it’s looking like this one could be a bloodbath. They lost 7-2 away to Aberdeen on Wednesday and they were beaten 3-0 at home to Hearts in their previous outing.
They have lost four of their last five games in all competitions and find themselves 9th in the Scottish Premiership table, just three points above the relegation playoff position that Hamilton currently occupy.
The seven goals they conceded on Wednesday has made them the worst defensive side in the top flight at the moment, and considering they are coming up against a Celtic side with 65 league goals in 24 matches they will certainly be worried. The visitors are also missing three of their defensive starters due to injury and suspension.
Moussa Dembele has been an absolute revelation at Celtic this season, scoring 12 league goals and getting three in the Champions League. He’s added a further nine goals in the domestic cup competitions as well to take his season tally to 24, and with his consecutive hat-tricks boosting his confidence enormously, backing him to score 2 or more goals at 6/4 looks a good value choice for our goalscorer predictions.
Three of Celtic’s last four meetings with Motherwell have seen them score at least four goals, including their 5-0 victory at Celtic Park earlier this season and the 4-3 win at Motherwell in December. This, along with Motherwell’s torrid defence of late, makes odds of 1/1 for Celtic Over 3.5 Team Goals look a good value offering. I’m also backing a 5-0 correct score predictions at 10/1.
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