Dundee

Compared with Celtic, Dundee fall short in every major line of the profile. Celtic score more freely home and away, while Dundee's away attack is particularly blunt, and Celtic also defend with greater consistency at both ends of the fixture split. Dundee's only mildly encouraging comparison is that their home scoring is at least competitive by league standards, but even there Celtic operate at a different level. For Celtic supporters, the picture is straightforward: Dundee's route into the game is to make it scrappy and venue-dependent, because over attack, defence and overall form, Celtic hold the clear edge.

The clearest strength is Dundee's home attacking output, which is respectable in league terms and gives them a platform against sides in their own bracket. The clearest weakness is away creativity: at 0.6 goals per match on the road, they offer less threat than anyone else in the division. Defensively they sit in the lower tier rather than at the very bottom, so the real problem is not one catastrophic area but a profile with too few standout positives. The radar reads like a side that can compete physically and stay in games, but struggles to tilt the shot and territory battle in its favour.

Using 33 players for a return of 35 league goals points to a season with plenty of churn and not enough settled attacking authority. Jon McCracken's 35 starts show there is at least a fixed point in goal, but beyond that Dundee look more like a side searching for workable combinations than one built around an established core. The scoring distribution reinforces that impression: there are contributions from across the squad, yet no one has posted the sort of total that carries a team up the table.