Celtic 2-3 Rangers — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Scotland - Premiership, 16 Mar 2025

📅16/03/2025 · 🕒15:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 3-0 2nd Score 4-0
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
55%
1.64
Draw
23%
3.72
Away
22%
4.31
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
46%
2.15
Over 2.5
54%
1.64
Both Teams to Score
Yes
47%
1.68
No
53%
2.06
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
23%
4.16
2-3 Goals
41%
1.88
4-5 Goals
25%
3.08
6+ Goals
11%
9.63
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
35%
2.08
1/2
5%
34.5
1/X
5%
13.8
X/1
13%
4.32
X/2
8%
10.05
X/X
13%
5.65
2/1
7%
21.3
2/2
9%
7.64
2/X
5%
15.4
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
💡 For the risk lovers: Home Win ★★ — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
55%
Home Win
57%
-1.8pp
23%
Draw
24%
-0.4pp
22%
Away Win
20%
+2.1pp
46%
Under 2.5
43%
+3.3pp
54%
Over 2.5
57%
-3.3pp
47%
BTTS Yes
56%
-8.8pp
53%
BTTS No
44%
+8.8pp
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 61%
Head to Head
AWAY Rangers EU Bookmakers 23%
+14% / +11% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -15% / -17%
1.58/1.04 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.97/1.57
+29% / +53% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -21% / -37%
56% Ball Possession 44%
14 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 5
393 · 81% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 278 · 73%
25.8 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 21.5
14.9 Crosses 17.7
2.7 Yellow Cards 2.9
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Celtic
3W-2D-1L
AWAY Rangers
2.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.67
1.49 xG 1.31
59% Ball Possession 41%
12 Total Shots 14
5 Shots on Target 5
5 Corners 7
459 Passes 269
83% Pass Accuracy 74%
26 Box Touches 24
13 Crosses 20
4 Yellow Cards 3
02.01.2025 Rangers Rangers 3-0 HT 1-0 Celtic Celtic İKP
15.12.2024 Celtic Celtic 3-3 HT 0-1 Rangers Rangers İKLK
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
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Celtic
2-3
AWAY Rangers
1.88 xG 1.17
72% Ball Possession 28%
14 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 5
7 Corners 6
469 Passes 141
85% Pass Accuracy 65%
23 Box Touches 21
18 Crosses 9
0 Yellow Cards 3
POST-MATCH Celtic vs Rangers
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Rangers edged past Celtic 3-2 away from home. Half-time: 0-2. 5 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

By our pre-match numbers this was an upset: we had Celtic at 55% and the game still went the other way. Single results are noisy — probabilities earn their keep across thousands of matches, not one.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 54% and both teams to score was close to even at 47%.

On the day, Celtic had 72% of the ball to Rangers's 28%, shots finished 14-10, expected goals 1.88 to 1.17 — the balance of chances actually favoured Celtic.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Celtic had the better of it with 3 wins, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 2.00 goals for Celtic and 1.67 for Rangers.

What was the final score of Celtic vs Rangers?

Celtic 2-3 Rangers in the Scotland - Premiership on 16/03/2025. 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 55%, with the full match-result split Celtic 55%, draw 23%, Rangers 22%. The final score 2-3 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5 — while Match Result (Celtic), BTTS No went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Celtic) ✓ Over 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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