Celtic 3-1 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 23 January 2016

Result

Celtic 3-1 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Saturday 23 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Celtic · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Celtic 3-1 St. Johnstone: match report

Celtic won against St. Johnstone 3-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 23 January 2016. The half-time score was 2-1.

Gary Mackay-Steven opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Celtic's goals came from Gary Mackay-Steven (9'), Stuart Armstrong (43') and Gary Mackay-Steven (55'). St. Johnstone scored through Steven MacLean (12').

Discipline: Celtic received no yellow cards; St. Johnstone received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 46 points from 22 and St. Johnstone 4th on 33 points from 21. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 74 points, and St. Johnstone 4th with 57.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Celtic wins, 3 draws and 1 for St. Johnstone.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Gary Mackay-StevenCeltic · 1-0
  • 12'Goal · Steven MacLeanSt. Johnstone · 1-1
  • 43'Goal · Stuart ArmstrongCeltic · 2-1
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Murray DavidsonSt. Johnstone
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Joe ShaughnessySt. Johnstone
  • 55'Goal · Gary Mackay-StevenCeltic · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 6, draws 3, St. Johnstone 1.

Team news

Celtic line-up

Craig Gordon, Efe Eric Ambrose, Jozo Simunovic, Mikael Lustig, Kieran Tierney, Nir Bitton, Stuart Armstrong, Gary Mackay-Steven, Stefan Johansen, Callum McGregor, Leigh Griffiths

St. Johnstone line-up

Alan Mannus, Tom Scobbie, Steven Anderson, Joe Shaughnessy, Brian Easton, Simon Lappin, Murray Davidson, David Wotherspoon, Steven MacLean, Graham Cummins, Michael O'Halloran