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Hooper and/or Stokes to score? You bet

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Gary Hooper Celtic newsThere’s one bet that the bookies won’t touch today and that’s that the game won’t end up as a 9-0 for Celtic.

A 9-0 is a once in ten years scoreline, most Celtic supporters would be delighted if Neil Lennon’s men could win their next three games against Aberdeen by that aggregate.

The odds on a Celtic win hardly appeal at 1 / 4. We’ve all read and heard plenty about how well Craig Brown has got Aberdeen playing with away wins at Hibs and Hamilton since the former Motherwell boss took over.

Celtic’s 9-0 win over Aberdeen in November featured hat-tricks for both Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes with the goals market for today’s match worth attention.

In terms of value then the 4 / 6 offered on Stokes or Hooper to score at any stage of the game certainly looks far better than the 4 / 6 available on Georgios Samaras and 4 /5 Daryl Murphy!

The suspended James Forrest can be backed to score at a rather unattractive 11 /10 but maybe an appeal against his appeal has been lodged…

In terms of goals it’s hard to see a Celtic victory that wouldn’t involve Stokes or Hooper scoring with the added benefit of Stokes being on penalties.

Despite the increasing number of honest mistakes in games Celtic have scored from penalties in each of their last three matches which could be something of an SPL record.

In the 9-0 win both Stokes and Paddy McCourt scored from the penalty spot

Stokes and Hooper are both priced at 10/3 to score first and 10/3 to score the last goal of the match which seems amongst the best value of the day.

The shortest odds on the correct scoreline is the 11 / 2 available on 2-0 which seems decent value with the Celtic defence losing just once since the turn of the year and that was due to Willie Collum’s interpretation of the offside rule at Hamilton.

Correct score betting

First/last anytime goalscorer

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