Hearts vs. Celtic Betting Tips: Back The Bhoys to win comfortably on Sunday

Sunday's solitary Scottish Premiership fixture sees defending champions and league leaders Celtic make the trip to Hearts at 2:15pm.

Sitting seven points clear on top of their throne having dropped just two points in their opening eight matches will have Brendan Rodgers perfectly content with his reintroduction to life at Celtic. Before The Bhoys can refocus their attention on bringing their European efforts to where they want them to be, they must first deal with the tough test of an away trip to Tynecastle Park.

In Hearts' case, consolidating their top-four position with a result this weekend must be the objective. Considering they've won only 12 of the last 72 meetings with Sunday's opponents, they'll have to bring their A-game to prevent Celtic from taking maximum points back to Glasgow.

Celtic are as short as 1/2 to win this match and for good reason. They've dispatched seven of their eight opponents in the SPL this season, including bitter rivals Rangers in the Old Firm derby at the beginning of September.

Hearts have lost three times in the league already, with two of these defeats coming in their last four Scottish Premiership outings.

With Rodgers at the helm, Celtic have won 10 of their 13 meetings with Hearts, drawing one and losing twice - giving him a points-per-match record of 2.38.

Six of The Hoops' eight SPL fixtures have seen three or more goals scored, so regardless of if it's a routine victory for Celtic or Hearts can run them close, we anticipate goals in this one.

We're going one further than a Celtic win by backing them to defeat Hearts without conceding in Edinburgh.

Celtic had no trouble seeing off The Jam Tarts in the last campaign as Ange Postecoglou oversaw four victories by an aggregate score of 12-4 - two of which were achieved to nil.

The Celts have kept a clean sheet on four out of eight occasions in the Scottish top-flight this term, while The Jambos have failed to score in as many games.

Pairing that up with Kyogo Furuhashi to get on the scoresheets bumps us up from 9/5 to 5/1.

The Japanese forward is yet to reach the heights of last campaign, however, he does still boast a record of five goals in 11 games.

Most importantly, Furuhashi has a tremendous record against this team, scoring in both the first phase reverse fixture at Celtic Park and Scottish Cup quarter-final at this ground three days later, before notching again in their second phase meeting back in May.