Celtic 4-2 Hibernian: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 25 October 2008
Result
Celtic 4-2 Hibernian
Premiership · Saturday 25 October 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Celtic 4-2 Hibernian: match report
Celtic beat Hibernian 4-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 25 October 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.
S. McManus opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Celtic's goals came from S. McManus (32'), Cillian Sheridan (36'), Glenn Loovens (76') and Scott Brown (82'). Hibernian scored through Colin Nish (41') and Steven Fletcher (50').
Discipline: Celtic received 2 yellow cards; Hibernian received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 22 points from 9 and Hibernian 4th on 14 points from 9. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Hibernian 7th with 47.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Celtic wins, 3 draws and 2 for Hibernian.
Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Hibernian's D-W-L-W-W.
Key events
- 32'Goal · S. McManus
- 36'Goal · Cillian Sheridan
- 41'Goal · Colin Nish
- 50'Goal · Steven Fletcher
- 69'Yellow card · S. McDonald
- 71'Yellow card · Derek Riordan
- 76'Goal · Glenn Loovens
- 78'Yellow card · Sol Bamba
- 82'Goal · Scott Brown
- 86'Yellow card · P. Hartley
- 86'Yellow card · D. Shiels
Head-to-head
Team news
Celtic expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Stephen McManus, Lee Naylor, Aiden McGeady, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, G. Caldwell, Scott Brown, Paul Hartley, Jirí Jarosík, John Kennedy