Celtic 3-3 Rangers — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Scotland - League Cup, 15 Dec 2024

📅15/12/2024 · 🕒18:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 1-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
40%
2.0
Draw
29%
3.45
Away
31%
3.15
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
54%
2.0
Over 2.5
46%
1.74
Both Teams to Score
Yes
50%
1.63
No
50%
2.13
Total Goals
0-1 Goal EV+ ✗
27%
3.63
2-3 Goals
44%
1.79
4-5 Goals
18%
3.15
6+ Goals
11%
10.85
Value flag · 0-1 Goal at 3.63 — our 27% vs market 21.5%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
18%
2.82
1/2
6%
34.5
1/X
5%
13.0
X/1
17%
4.77
X/2
10%
7.19
X/X
14%
4.97
2/1
6%
24.3
2/2
15%
5.01
2/X
9%
13.4
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
40%
Home Win
46%
-5.6pp
29%
Draw
26%
+3.4pp
31%
Away Win
28%
+2.2pp
54%
Under 2.5
46%
+7.8pp
46%
Over 2.5
54%
-7.8pp
50%
BTTS Yes
57%
-7.4pp
50%
BTTS No
43%
+7.4pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Celtic EU Bookmakers 50%
Head to Head
AWAY Rangers EU Bookmakers 32%
+37% / +37% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +6% / +6%
3.14/0.09 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.67/0.67
+96% / +150% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -45% / +104%
53% Ball Possession 47%
12 Total Shots 11
4 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
313 · 83% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 275 · 82%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
Yellow Cards
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Celtic
5W-1D-0L
AWAY Rangers
2.00 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
1.48 xG 1.18
56% Ball Possession 44%
13 Total Shots 12
5 Shots on Target 3
5 Corners 5
403 Passes 288
81% Pass Accuracy 74%
23 Box Touches 24
13 Crosses 19
4 Yellow Cards 2
01.09.2024 Celtic Celtic 3-0 HT 2-0 Rangers Rangers İKP
25.05.2024 Celtic Celtic 1-0 HT 0-0 Rangers Rangers İKK
11.05.2024 Celtic Celtic 2-1 HT 2-1 Rangers Rangers İKP
07.04.2024 Rangers Rangers 3-3 HT 0-2 Celtic Celtic İKP
30.12.2023 Celtic Celtic 2-1 HT 1-0 Rangers Rangers İKP
03.09.2023 Rangers Rangers 0-1 HT 0-1 Celtic Celtic İKP
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Celtic
3-3
AWAY Rangers
66% Ball Possession 34%
10 Total Shots 19
7 Shots on Target 8
5 Corners 9
641 Passes 247
84% Pass Accuracy 67%
32 Box Touches 29
14 Crosses 28
3 Yellow Cards 8
POST-MATCH Celtic vs Rangers
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Celtic and Rangers couldn't be separated, finishing 3-3. Half-time: 0-1. 6 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

We called this one close before kick-off — 40% / 29% / 31% — and a draw is about as on-script as that read gets.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 46% and both teams to score was close to even at 50%.

On the day, Celtic had 66% of the ball to Rangers's 34%, shots finished 10-19.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Celtic had the better of it with 5 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 2.00 goals for Celtic and 0.83 for Rangers.

What was the final score of Celtic vs Rangers?

Celtic 3-3 Rangers in the Scotland - League Cup on 15/12/2024. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Celtic vs Rangers?

Before kick-off our model rated a Celtic win the most likely single outcome at about 40%, with the full match-result split Celtic 40%, draw 29%, Rangers 31%. The final score 3-3 went against our main leads this time — single matches are noisy by nature; our accuracy is measured across thousands of predictions, not one result.

✗ Match Result (Celtic) ✗ Under 2.5
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