Celtic 3-0 Motherwell: result and report
Premiership · Sunday 30 August 2020
Result
Celtic 3-0 Motherwell
Premiership · Sunday 30 August 2020, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Celtic 3-0 Motherwell: match report
Celtic beat Motherwell 3-0 in the Premiership on Sunday 30 August 2020. The half-time score was 1-0.
James Forrest opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Celtic's goals came from James Forrest (40'), Albian Ajeti (74') and Christopher Jullien (90+2'). Motherwell did not score.
Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Motherwell received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Celtic were 4th on 7 points from 3 and Motherwell 12th on 2 points from 5. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Motherwell 8th with 45.
Celtic lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Motherwell in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Christopher Jullien of Celtic (8.5), level with Kristoffer Ajer (8.5).
Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-D-W and Motherwell's L-D-D-L-L.
Key events
- 22'Yellow card · Scott Brown
- 40'Goal · James Forrest
- 55'Yellow card · Ricki Lamie
- 74'Goal · Albian Ajeti
- 89'Yellow card · L. Grimshaw
- 90+2'Goal · Christopher Jullien
Team news
Unavailable
- Charles Dunne
- Liam Donnelly
- Scott Fox
- Odsonne Édouard
- Jake Carroll
- Mikey Johnston
- Leigh Griffiths
- N. McGinley
Celtic line-up (4-2-3-1)
Vasilios Barkas, Hatem Abd Elhamed, Christopher Jullien, Kristoffer Ajer, Greg Taylor, Scott Brown, Callum McGregor, James Forrest, Olivier Ntcham, Mohamed Elyounoussi, Ryan Christie
Motherwell line-up (5-3-2)
Trevor Carson, Stephen O'Donnell, Declan Gallagher, Bevis Mugabi, Ricki Lamie, Liam Grimshaw, Allan Campbell, Mark O'Hara, Liam Polworth, Christopher Long, Tony Watt