Celtic 2-2 Dundee United: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 3 January 2009

Result

Celtic 2-2 Dundee United

Premiership · Saturday 3 January 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Celtic 2-2 Dundee United: match report

Celtic drew with Dundee United 2-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 3 January 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Georgios Samaras opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Celtic's goals came from Georgios Samaras (12') and Georgios Samaras (58'). Dundee United scored through P. Dixon (60') and W. Feeney (77').

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Dundee United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 50 points from 20 and Dundee United 3rd on 34 points from 20. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Dundee United 5th with 53.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Celtic wins, 5 draws and 0 for Dundee United.

Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-W-D-L-W and Dundee United's W-D-D-W-W.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 1-0
  • 58'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 2-0
  • 59'Yellow card · S. McManusCeltic
  • 60'Goal · P. DixonDundee United · 2-1
  • 77'Goal · W. FeeneyDundee United · 2-2
  • 80'Yellow card · W. FeeneyDundee United

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 5, draws 5, Dundee United 0.

Team news

Celtic expected line-up (4-4-2)

Stephen McManus, Barry Robson, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, Scott Brown, G. Caldwell, Andreas Hinkel, Mark Wilson, Shunsuke Nakamura, Shaun Maloney, Paul Hartley