St Mirren v Celtic – Team news, match officials, KO time & where to watch

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·01 de março de 2025

St Mirren v Celtic – Team news, match officials, KO time & where to watch

Celtic make the short trip to Paisley to take on St Mirren in the Scottish Premiership with Brendan Rodgers side looking to maintain their 100% record over the Buddies this season after previously securing two 3-0 victories…

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic FC and Aberdeen FC at Celtic Park, on 25th February 2025. (Picture by Mark Runnacles)

Celtic are five consecutive victories away from winning the title and there are five games left in the Scottish Premiership before the split. So the target is clear, home wins against theRangers, Hearts and Kilmarnock and away victories against St Mirren and St Johnstone – and in the first round of fixtures Celtic did indeed win these corresponding fixtures. Same again please Celtic and the title will be ours after winning against Derek McInnes’ side at Paradise.

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That of course is assuming that theRangers win their other games while losing at Celtic Park.

Anyway today is the first of the five and it might well be the toughest of the lot.

Celtic Team News

Daizen Maeda celebrates scoring the opening goal of the game during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Aberdeen at Celtic Park on 25th February 2025. (Picture by Mark Runnacles)

Brendan Rodgers will be without Paul Bernardo and James Forrest for the journey down towards Glasgow Airport. The squad from Tuesday night’s comfortable 5-1 win over Aberdeen have all come through that one unscathed and are in the squad today, with the only addition being new dad Greg Taylor who missed that game as his wife went into labour. The Taylor’s now have a beautiful daughter and congratulations to mum and dad on their new arrival.

It’s hard to argue for too many changes today, although Brendan is likely to consider make one or two to continue his squad rotation which has served him well over the past number of months where the games across four competitions have come thick and fast.

Jota scores and celebrates his goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Aberdeen at Celtic Park, on 25th February 2025. (Picture by Mark Runnacles)

But with a game a week now the gaffer might decide to start today with the same team that kicked off on Tuesday night.

That means Kasper Schmeichel in goal, a back four of Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty and Jeffrey Schlupp, a midfield three of Callum McGregor, Arne Engels and Reo Hatate and the potent front three of Nicolas Kuhn, Daizen Maeda and Jota.

On the bench expect Sinisalo, Taylor, Scales, Idah, Yang, McCowan, Kenny, Murray, Ralston and Bonnar.

Predicted XI: Schmeichel; Schlupp, Trusty, Carter-Vickers, Johnston; McGregor, Hatate, Engels; Jota, Maeda, Kühn.

Match Officials

Matthew MacDermid has been appointed as the referee for Celtic’s trip to face St Mirren later this afternoon. The SFA earlier this week confirmed that the 31-year-old referee will take charge of the game, which will be shown live on Sky Sports.

Referee Matthew MacDermid with Callum McGregor. Ross County v Celtic in Dingwall. Photo Vagelis Georgariou

MacDermid will be assisted by Calum Spence and Steven Traynor. Meanwhile, at Clydesdale House, Andrew Dallas is on VAR with Alan Mulvanny assisting. This will be MacDermid’s third Celtic game of the season. The referee took charge of Celtic’s 4–0 victory over St Johnstone at Celtic Park. In January, McDiarmid oversaw Celtic’s 4–1 win against Ross County in Dingwall.

Matthew MacDermid will be assisted by Calum Spence and Steven Traynor while Andrew Dallas will be today’s VAR assisted by Alan Mulvanny.

Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

Celtic will know that the trip to St Mirren is a potentially hazardous trip, especially after the weekend’s defeat to Hibernian. The officials copped flak after Daizen Maeda’s equaliser was cancelled out by Alan Muir on VAR. The decision has been criticised by Brendan Rodgers, accusing the VAR official of guessing. The Scottish FA’s key incident panel yesterday voted 4:1 on the decision to overrule the on-field decision as incorrect and that the Celtic goal should have been allowed to stand. Hopefully there are no controversial refereeing decisions today..

Kick-off Time

The Scottish Premiership match between St Mirren and Celtic takes place on Saturday, March 1 at SMiSA Stadium, Paisley. Kick-off is at 5.30pm due to Sky Sports broadcasting the match on both Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.

Where to Watch

The St Mirren v Celtic match in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday’s late-afternoon 5.30pm kick-off is live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football and is also on Celtic TV for subscribers to the club’s channel based outside of Britain and Ireland.

Sportscene will be screened on the BBC Scotland channel at 7.15pm on Saturday evening and will then be repeated at 11.40pm on BBC One with short highlights shown there. Hopefully Celtic TV will have a Unique Angle out on Sunday morning!