Overview
- The Scottish Cup final will be played at Hampden Park with a 3pm BST kick-off on Saturday, May 23 and will be shown live on BBC Scotland and Premier Sports 2.
- Bookmakers make Celtic clear favourites at about 2-9 with Dunfermline priced around 8-1 and the draw 11-2, reflecting Celtic’s recent run and long head-to-head dominance.
- Daizen Maeda enters the match in red-hot form, having scored eight goals in his last six games and is widely tipped as an anytime scorer.
- Celtic’s defence has looked vulnerable late in the season, with only two clean sheets in their last 16 matches, which makes a win-to-nil bet risky.
- Dunfermline arrive as a Championship side managed by former Celtic boss Neil Lennon after a run of poor league form and a playoff defeat to Partick Thistle, and both teams are carrying several absences that shape the predicted starting XIs.