Scottish Premiership

FT Sunday, December 26, 2021
Celtic WWWWD 3
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St Johnstone LLLLL 1
1st2ndT
CEL213
STJ011
McDiarmid Park · 500 att.

Head to Head

CEL leads series 4-0-1

Lineups

STJ · 3-4-2-1

  1. 12Elliot ParishG
  2. 6Liam GordonCD
  3. 4Jamie McCartCD-L
  4. 5Lars DendonckerCD-R
  5. 34Jacob ButterfieldCM-L
  6. 13Craig BrysonCM-R
  7. 24Callum BoothLM
  8. 2James BrownRM
  9. 7Stevie MayF
  10. 27Viv Solomon-OtaborCF-L
  11. 21Ali CrawfordCF-R

Substitutes

  1. 16Hayden MullerSUB
  2. 14Glenn MiddletonSUB
  3. 3Reece DevineSUB
  4. 11Michael O'HalloranSUB
  5. 26Liam CraigSUB
  6. 20Ross SinclairSUB
  7. 9Christopher KaneSUB

CEL · 4-3-1-2

  1. 1Vasilios BarkasG
  2. 4Carl StarfeltCD-L
  3. 20Cameron Carter-VickersCD-R
  4. 5Liam ScalesLB
  5. 57Stephen WelshRB
  6. 8Kyogo FuruhashiM
  7. 6Nir BittonCM
  8. 18Tom RogicAM
  9. 16James McCarthyLM
  10. 88Josip JuranovicRM
  11. 11Liel AbadaCF-R

Substitutes

  1. 12Ismaila Soro
  2. 43Ryan Mullen
  3. 73Owen Moffat
  4. 84Ben Gannon-Doak
  5. 54Adam Montgomery
  6. 23Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo
  7. 44Joey Dawson

Timeline

  1. 9' Goal! St. Johnstone 0, Celtic 1. Liel Abada (Celtic) header from very close range to the top right corner.
  2. 15' Substitution, Celtic. Joey Dawson replaces Kyogo Furuhashi because of an injury.
  3. 22' Goal! St. Johnstone 0, Celtic 2. Liel Abada (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomas Rogic.
  4. 45' Substitution, St. Johnstone. Liam Craig replaces Alister Crawford.
  5. 45' Substitution, St. Johnstone. Christopher Kane replaces Craig Bryson.
  6. 59' Jacob Butterfield (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  7. 63' Substitution, St. Johnstone. Glenn Middleton replaces Stevie May.
  8. 69' Goal! St. Johnstone 1, Celtic 2. Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Viv Solomon-Otabor with a cross.
  9. 82' Goal! St. Johnstone 1, Celtic 3. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomas Rogic.
  10. 85' Lars Dendoncker (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  11. 86' Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  12. 87' Substitution, Celtic. Adam Montgomery replaces Liam Scales.

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