Scottish Premiership

Celtic 7–1 Heart Of Midlothian

Final score · Half-time 5–1 · All of yesterday's results

The sharp market makes Celtic the most likely outcome at 60% — fair odds of 1.67. No soft bookmaker is offering more than that fair price right now, so there is no value here — the honest call is to pass. Recent form — Celtic: LWLLW; Heart Of Midlothian: DWDLW.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 7' Kieran Tierney · goal · assist Liam Scales · Celtic
  2. 10' Benjamin Nygren · goal · assist Dane Murray · Celtic
  3. 34' Calvin Miller · yellow card · Heart Of Midlothian
  4. 36' Callum Osmand · goal · assist Camilo Duran · Celtic
  5. 38' Callum Osmand · goal · assist Camilo Duran · Celtic
  6. 41' Laurent mendy · goal · assist Josh Mcpake · Heart Of Midlothian
  7. 45+1' Jamie McCart (own goal) · Celtic
  8. 49' Jota · yellow card · Celtic
  9. 49' Camilo Duran · goal · assist Kieran Tierney · Celtic
  10. 51' Mika Baur · yellow card · Celtic
  11. 52' Colby Donovan · yellow card · Celtic
  12. 83' Benjamin Nygren · goal · assist Kasper Hogh · Celtic

Match stats

Match statsCelticHeart Of Midlothian
Possession %4852
Expected goals (xG)4.241.27
Shots1820
Shots on target105
Corners63
Yellow cards31
Red cards00
Fouls178
Offsides01
Goalkeeper saves43

What the market said before kick-off

  • Celtic win 58% happened
  • Draw 21% did not happen
  • Heart Of Midlothian win 20% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 65% happened

Pinnacle closing price with the margin removed, next to what happened. It is the market's view, not a tip: an outcome priced at 30% happens about 3 times in 10.

Venue: Celtic Park, Glasgow

Next matches

Line-ups, events and match stats: API-Football.

Starting line-ups

Celtic 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 V. Sinisalo GK
  2. 51 Colby Donovan DF
  3. 47 D. Murray DF
  4. 5 L. Scales DF
  5. 63 K. Tierney DF
  6. 42 C. McGregor MF
  7. 22 M. Baur MF
  8. 23 H. Hassan MF
  9. 8 B. Nygren MF
  10. 11 C. Durán MF
  11. 19 C. Osmand FW

Bench: L. Emenalo, J. Forrest, K. Høgh, S. Johnstone, Jota, Shumaira Mheuka, A. Oxlade-Chamberlain, O. Sørensen, A. Trusty

Coach: M. O'Neill

Heart Of Midlothian 4-4-1-1

  1. 1 B. Reus GK
  2. 23 J. Altena DF
  3. 64 M. Fagan-Walcott DF
  4. 5 J. McCart DF
  5. 3 S. Kingsley DF
  6. 7 C. Miller MF
  7. 78 L. Mendy MF
  8. 6 O. McEntee MF
  9. 15 J. McPake MF
  10. 19 S. Guendouz MF
  11. 10 Cláudio Braga FW

Bench: S. Kerjota, T. Magnússon, R. Mato, H. Milne, J. Williams, J. Wilson, S. Findlay, R. Fulton, A. Ba-Sy

Coach: W. Vrancken

Regular starters not in the XI

  • J. Wilson — on the bench (started 5 of the last 5)

Not in the XI does not mean injured: it can be rotation, a suspension or a knock. We only compare with the team's last 5 line-ups.

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 60 / 20 / 20% when the line-ups came out, 58 / 21 / 20% at kick-off.

In the big leagues, line-up news is usually already in the price by the time it is official.

The most likely result is not the same as value: value is where a bookmaker pays more than the fair price, and the two can point to different outcomes.

Value check before kick-off

No value

No value was flagged for this match: before kick-off, no bookmaker price we saw beat the fair price under our rule.

Most likely result

1 Home win 60%
1X2
Sharp, recorded60%20%20%
Other estimates
Our model56%24%20%

Sharp, recorded = Pinnacle when we logged the match (it can be days old). Our model = our own estimate, which on average predicts worse than the market.

Fair odds of the pick (as recorded) 1.67
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.61 / 4.60 / 4.40
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 2–1–2 (Celtic wins – draws – Heart Of Midlothian wins).

Celtic scored 1 and conceded 1.6 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Heart Of Midlothian scored 2 and conceded 1 in 5.

These figures come from our own tracked results and odds snapshots for this fixture — not from a generic stats feed.

Market-relevant trends

Heart Of Midlothian is averaging 2 goals scored over its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Heart Of Midlothian here.

We show the trend and whether it is already in the price. Most sites show the streak and let you assume you should bet it.

Why this price?

Celtic
L W L L W
avg 1 scored · 1.6 conceded (last 5)
Heart Of Midlothian
D W D L W
avg 2 scored · 1 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
16 May 2026 Celtic 3–1 Heart Of Midlothian
25 Jan 2026 Heart Of Midlothian 2–2 Celtic
07 Dec 2025 Celtic 1–2 Heart Of Midlothian
26 Oct 2025 Heart Of Midlothian 3–1 Celtic
29 Mar 2025 Celtic 3–0 Heart Of Midlothian

Recent form and head-to-head from our settled results — context behind the fair price. The price itself comes from the sharp market, not from these alone.

Public, timestamped record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1 · Home win
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.61
Closing odds 1.68
Prediction CLV -4.2%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint f20dadc8a7b54925

This hash fingerprints the prediction as recorded: teams, kick-off time, our model probabilities, the Pinnacle prices recorded for it (at logging or, if there were none, the first quoted after logging and before kick-off, which can be written in after the match) and the log time. A later edit to any of them would change it (a rescheduled kick-off changes it too). It does not cover closing prices, the result or the value-bet record above; value flags recorded live have their own seal in the public record. Verify in the public record →

Every day a snapshot of the full public record is published to a public Git repository and timestamped with OpenTimestamps. Timestamped snapshots are never overwritten and the Git history shows any difference, so a later change to a past row is visible by comparing two snapshots. The corrections file lists the corrections we announced. Verify on the public log →

Since 20 June 2026 the public record is snapshotted daily (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter) to an external log. A prediction is externally timestamped before kick-off only if it was in a snapshot taken before the match; predictions logged on match day, or whose Pinnacle price was added after logging, first appear there after kick-off. Value flags have been recorded live only since 26 September 2026; earlier value flags were reconstructed on that date.

Methodology

The fair price comes from the sharp market itself: we strip the margin from Pinnacle-style odds — the most accurate public predictor in existence — and use our calibrated Elo + form model as a cross-check and as the fallback where no sharp price exists. Value is flagged only where a softer bookmaker prices a selection above that fair price, never on long shots (implied probability under 30%), and never beyond a plausible band. Most of the time there is no value — and we say so.

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