Partick Thistle v Celtic Betting Tips: 2 HT/FT, 2017-08-11

Celtic to dish out another defeat to hapless Patrick Thistle

Scottish Premiership Betting Tips

PARTICK THISTLE v CELTIC 

Friday 11th August 2017 – Kickoff: 1945hrs

Football – Scotland – Premiership Betting Tips

Friday night is the start of this weekend’s action north of the border in the Scottish Premiership with Partick Thistle taking on the reigning domestic champions, Celtic, at their Firhill Stadium in an all-Glasgow affair.

Unfortunately for the hosts, Partick Thistle’s new season continued where it left off last term, and that was with another defeat, this time inflicted by newcomers, Hibernian, in their return to the Scottish top flight, with Hibs running out out 3-1 winners on the opening day of the new season.

That’s now five defeats on the trot for Thistle in a miserable sequence of losses which includes an earlier 5-0 thrashing at home to tonight’s opponents, Celtic, when the two teams last met back in May.

Visitors Celtic had no such worries in their season opener at home against Hearts as The Hoops romped to a 4-1 win despite being in Champions League action just a few days beforehand which also included a trip to Norway when they beat Rosenborg 1-0 to progress to the play-off round.

I had picked Celtic just for the win at half-time as I was worried they might run out of steam in the second half (they duly obliged for the first 45 minutes), but they actually went up through the gears after the interval to record a resounding opening day win.

Incidentally, Celtic were ahead at half-time a total of 11 times from their 16 away matches last season, and I’ll back them to win at half-time and full-time in this clash at good odds for the champions.

Pick: Celtic HT/FT @ 1.83 Coral