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Title Race Fine Margins

The penultimate game and post-split summary

James Dailey
May 20, 2026
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The massively high leverage timing of the late penalty at Motherwell Wednesday night was followed up another vital late-first half penalty Saturday versus Hearts.

Outside of that penalty, the non-penalty xG horse race reached the point of a relative stalemate, as was the 1-1 scoreline, after the double Hearts chance in the 86th minute - 0.82 on 11 shots for Celtic versus 1.05 on 10 shots for Hearts.

Then the title winning goal from post-split beast-mode Daizen Maeda saw Celtic rack up 1.40 xG on 2 shots, including 0.99 on Callum Osmand’s cherry on top.

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