Celtic 3-2 Rangers: result and report
Premiership · Sunday 27 April 2008
Result
Celtic 3-2 Rangers
Premiership · Sunday 27 April 2008, 11:30 UTC · half-time 2-2
Celtic 3-2 Rangers: match report
Celtic beat Rangers 3-2 in the Premiership on Sunday 27 April 2008. It was 2-2 at half-time.
S. McDonald opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Celtic's goals came from S. McDonald (4'), S. McDonald (43') and B. Robson (70'). Rangers scored through D. Weir (17') and Daniel Cousin (29').
Discipline: Celtic received 4 yellow cards; Rangers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 77 points from 33 and Rangers 2nd on 75 points from 31. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Rangers 2nd with 86.
Celtic lined up in a 4-5-1 and Rangers in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Celtic wins, 2 draws and 4 for Rangers.
Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-W-W-L-W and Rangers's L-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · S. McDonald
- 17'Goal · D. Weir
- 18'Yellow card · B. Robson
- 29'Goal · Daniel Cousin
- 34'Yellow card · P. Hartley
- 43'Goal · S. McDonald
- 55'Yellow card · Lee Naylor
- 58'Yellow card · Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
- 69'Yellow card · Stefano Ceci
- 70'Goal · B. Robson
- 80'Yellow card · Steven Whittaker
- 90'Second yellow · Steven Whittaker
Head-to-head
Team news
Celtic expected line-up (4-5-1)
Stephen McManus, Lee Naylor, Aiden McGeady, Massimo Donati, Scott McDonald, Artur Boruc, Jirí Jarosík, G. Caldwell, Paul Hartley, Scott Brown
Rangers expected line-up (4-5-1)
Ronald Waterreus, Alan Hutton, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Julien Rodriguez, Fernando Ricksen, Hamed Namouchi, Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, C. Burke, Ian Murray