Rangers vs Celtic Prediction: 5/1 First Goalscorer Tip, Team News & More
The final Old Firm derby of the season takes place at 12pm on Sunday as Rangers face their Glasgow rivals Celtic at Ibrox.
Celtic have already been confirmed as Scottish Premiership champions with four games to play and Rangers have second place secured, but there is no chance either of these teams will approach this fixture as a meaningless encounter.
Celtic won the first Old Firm clash of the season and then edged out Rangers in the Scottish League Cup final on penalties, but the Light Blues have won the teams' last two league meetings.
The Scottish Premiership fixture kicks off at midday on Sunday 4th May and is being broadcast in the UK by Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.
Rangers vs Celtic Prediction
Rangers vs Celtic Betting Tips
Rangers are in woeful form but their battles with their city rivals have brought out the best in them this season with the Gers winning the last two league meetings.
Celtic are still justifiable favourites despite that recent record as they come into the game after three successive wins, during which time they have scored 15 goals and conceded just once.
The best angle for this match could be to go for goals and these teams should be able to combine for at least four in total.
Over 3.5 goals has been a winning bet in four of Rangers’ last five Premiership games, and they have conceded at least twice themselves in all of those fixtures.
At least four goals have been scored in six of Celtic’s last nine games across all competitions and their league games average 3.6 goals with the Bhoys scoring three times per game on average.
There have been four Old Firm games this season across all competitions and on average 4.25 goals have been scored in those derbies.
Celtic’s Japanese star Daizen Maeda has scored three goals in four Old Firm games this season and he looks a decent candidate to open the scoring on Sunday.
Maeda is in blistering form with 11 goals in his last 10 games for his club and he is the joint-top scorer in the Premiership with 16 goals in total this season.
The 27-year-old scored Celtic’s first goal in a 3-2 defeat to Rangers in March, and he may be the man to strike first overall when the champions make the short trip to Ibrox this weekend.
Rangers vs Celtic Team News
Rangers Team News
- Ross McCausland returns for Rangers after a one-game ban but Dujon Sterling (Achilles) and Neraysho Kasanwirjo (knee) are unavailable due to injury, while youngster Findlay Curtis is set to miss out on the matchday squad after picking up an injury in an outing for the B team.
- Leon Balogun, Ridvan Yilmaz and Tom Lawrence are all doubts for the hosts.
Celtic Team News
- Celtic have a trio of injury absentees as Kasper Schmeichel, Yang Hyun-Jun and Jota are unavailable.
The lineups for Rangers vs Celtic will be displayed below approximately one hour before kick-off.
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Liam Patrick Kelly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Jefté Vital da Silva Dias | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Leon Aderemi Balogun | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | John Francis Souttar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | James Henry Tavernier | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Nicolas Thierry Raskin | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Connor Clark Barron | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Mohammed Baba Diomandé | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Cyriel Kolawole Dessers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Nedim Bajrami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Václav Černý | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Butland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Óscar Manuel Cortés Cortés | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Ianis Hagi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Hamza Igamane | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Neraysho Meritchio Kasanwirjo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | Ross McCausland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Clinton Nsiala-Makengo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | Danilo Pereira da Silva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | Bailey Rice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Viljami Kari Veikko Sinisalo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Greg John Taylor | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Liam Scales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Cameron Robert Carter-Vickers | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Anthony Ralston | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Reo Hatate | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Callum William McGregor | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Arne Engels | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Daizen Maeda | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Adam Uche Idah | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | James Forrest | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | Scott Bain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Paulo Guilherme Gonçalves Bernardo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Johnny Kenny | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 62 | Sean McArdle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Luke McCowan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Maik Nawrocki | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Jeffrey Schlupp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Auston Levi-Jesaiah Trusty | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Hyun-Jun Yang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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