Dundee are the visitors to Celtic Park tonight (weather permitting), only days after losing 0-1 to Motherwell at Dens Park.
Manager Neil McCann was not happy with referee Mr Muir’s performance, issuing the perennial post-match response of many managers – “we wuz robbed!”.
The result left the Dark Blues in 9th place in the table, not a position any boss likes to be in and Neil would be even more troubled by reflecting on his side’s record of P28, W8, D4, L16, F30, A43, Pts28.
There is this point when you look down the table when a team’s goals-against column is higher than the goals-for tally..Right now in the Premiership, that line can be drawn under Hearts, in 5th place.
Under that line, teams are struggling and Dundee are in that category, that tally of 16 goals lost being only one better than Ross County, in bottom place.
So, I should imagine that Neil McCann will not be exactly relishing his team’s visit to Parkhead tonight.
As for Celtic, the players must forget all about the difference in positions in the league and take the points as efficiently as possible.
When I checked the results for the weekend, there was one other statistic that caught my attention. Like all the other teams in the Premiership, Dundee have been trying to bring together a squad of talented players, good enough to avoid relegation and, if one is being realistic, hoping to reach the later stages of the two major cup competitions.
But how can a provincial club manage to do that when the home attendance for the Motherwell match was 5,003!
Jim Craig
Celtic By Numbers on The Celtic Star Podcast Extra: Stats Entertainment!
We are joined on this podcast extra by Alan Morrison. Alan is the man behind the Celtic By Numbers website, so as you can guess we are going to be talking stats and how they can tell the story of Celtic’s Season so far.
We discuss our drop in performance this season, the creative hole caused by injuries, why we should be singing songs for the return of Stuart Armstrong, the Scott Sinclair situation, the problems of making too many changes, the case for the defence, Simunovic v Boyata, Olivier Ntcham’s influence and importance to the team and finally we admit that Kristoffer Ajer is the new Virgil Van Dijk!
