Look for Celtic to be ahead at half-time on Tuesday night. Rodgers’ side are usually fast starters in the Scottish Premiership, particularly when playing in front of their own supporters. In fact, Celtic have found themselves in front at the interval in 10 of their 13 Scottish Premiership home games this season so far. Furthermore, the Bhoys have led at the break in seven of their 14 top-flight away days this season.

They will be up against an Aberdeen team that have triumphed just once on their Scottish Premiership travels since October. What’s more, the Dons have found themselves trailing at half-time in 6 of their last 9 league games away from home. Expect that trend to continue when they go up against a wounded Celtic team on Tuesday night.

Arne Englels has scored a quietly impressive 8 goals across his 24 appearances for Celtic in the Scottish Premiership this season. A deeper dig shows that 6 of those strikes have arrived at Celtic Park, including a brace in a recent home game with Dundee.

The Belgian ace is averaging 2 shots per game in the Scottish top flight this term, with an on-target average of 0.58 per 90. That average is not to be sniffed at considering that Engles has come off the bench in 9 of his 24 appearances in the Scottish Premiership appearances this season, not to mention he is Celtic’s designated penalty taker.

Up against an Aberdeen side that are without a clean sheet in 16 of their last 18 league games, and giving up an average of almost 4.5 shots on target per game, Engels warrants support to work Dons stopper Dimitar Mitov at least once on Tuesday night.

Alistair Johnston regularly finds himself on the referee’s radar, making him a prime candidate to commit a minimum of 1 foul on Tuesday night. The Celtic right-back’s front-foot approach to defending has coincided with him averaging 1.04 fouls per game in the Scottish Premiership this season. In fact, the Canadian international has given away at least 1 free-kick in 16 of his 23 league outings this season so far.

When Celtic last hosted Aberdeen back in October, Johnston was guilty of 3 separate offences, while he made 2 misdemeanours away at Hibernian on Saturday, picking up a yellow card in the process. He is likely to be in a direct battle with Jeppe Okkels on Tuesday night, who was fouled twice during Aberdeen’s recent top-flight tussle with St Mirren.

Daizen Maeda stands out for either a goal or an assist on Tuesday night. The Celtic ace is enjoying his most fruitful season in front of goal since arriving in Scotland, netting his 23rd goal of the campaign against Hibs last time out. That goal haul is made all the more impressive by the fact that the Japanese international has also provided 9 assists across his 38 appearances in all competitions this season so far.

In fact, Maeda has registered a minimum of 1 goal involvement in 7 of the last 8 Scottish Premiership matches that he has started. Thus, there is plenty of scope for the 27-year-old to continue in that vein against an Aberdeen side that have conceded multiple goals in seven of their last 10 league games away from Pittordire.

Sivert Heltne Nilsen looks worth siding with to commit two or more fouls on Tuesday night. The tough-tackling Aberdeen midfielder is averaging 1.46 fouls per game in the Scottish Premiership this season, making multiple misdemeanours in 10 of his 24 appearances in the top flight this term. Nilsen fell foul of the referee on 4 occasions at Celtic Park earlier this season before following suit when the pair crossed paths again at Pittodrie in December.

The experienced Norwegian should have plenty of defensive work to get through on Tuesday night. He is likely to be up against Celtic’s classy playmaker Reo Hatate, who has drawn a combined total of 6 fouls from his previous 2 top flight appearances against Aberdeen this season.

Aberdeen play a pretty aggressive game—they’ve racked up 73 yellow cards in just 27 Scottish Premiership matches this season (that’s 2.7 per game), which is seven more than any other team in the league.

Their foul count backs that up too, with Jimmy Thelin’s squad averaging 11.3 fouls per game in the SPFL.

In their last clash, Aberdeen picked up three yellow cards. They barely had the ball (only 26% possession), meaning they had to do a lot more defending—which led to 12 fouls and those three bookings.