Celtic 2-4 Rangers: result and report
Premiership · Sunday 31 August 2008
Result
Celtic 2-4 Rangers
Premiership · Sunday 31 August 2008, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Celtic 2-4 Rangers: match report
Celtic lost to Rangers 2-4 in the Premiership on Sunday 31 August 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.
Daniel Cousin opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Celtic's goals came from Georgios Samaras (39') and Shunsuke Nakamura (90'). Rangers scored through Daniel Cousin (37'), Kenny Miller (53'), Pedro Mendes (62') and Kenny Miller (79').
Discipline: Celtic received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Rangers received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Celtic were 3rd on 7 points from 3 and Rangers 4th on 7 points from 3. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Rangers 1st 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-D-W and Rangers's D-W-W.
Key events
- 9'Yellow card · Kevin Thomson
- 15'Yellow card · S. McManus
- 37'Goal · Daniel Cousin
- 39'Goal · Georgios Samaras
- 53'Goal · Kenny Miller
- 57'Yellow card · Daniel Cousin
- 62'Goal · Pedro Mendes
- 64'Yellow card · Georgios Samaras
- 69'Yellow card · Charlie Adam
- 74'Yellow card · Allan McGregor
- 75'Second yellow · Daniel Cousin
- 76'Red card · Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
- 77'Yellow card · Stefano Ceci
- 79'Goal · Kenny Miller
- 90'Goal · Shunsuke Nakamura
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