Celtic 7-0 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 3 August 2019

Result

Celtic 7-0 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Saturday 3 August 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

Celtic · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Celtic 7-0 St. Johnstone: match report

Celtic beat St. Johnstone 7-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 3 August 2019. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Mikey Johnston opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Celtic's goals came from Mikey Johnston (9'), Ryan Christie (26'), Ryan Christie (30'), Ryan Christie (67'), O. Ntcham (72'), Odsonne Edouard (80') and Leigh Griffiths (86'). St. Johnstone did not score.

Discipline: Celtic received no yellow cards; St. Johnstone received 3 yellow cards.

Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 80 points, and St. Johnstone 7th with 36.

Celtic lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and St. Johnstone in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ryan Christie of Celtic (10.0), ahead of Leigh Griffiths (9.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Celtic wins, 2 draws and 1 for St. Johnstone.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Mikey JohnstonCeltic · 1-0
  • 26'Goal · Ryan ChristieCeltic · 2-0
  • 27'Yellow card · Matty KennedySt. Johnstone
  • 30'Goal · Ryan ChristieCeltic · 3-0
  • 67'Goal · Ryan ChristieCeltic · 4-0
  • 72'Goal · O. NtchamCeltic · 5-0
  • 74'Yellow card · Richard FosterSt. Johnstone
  • 78'Yellow card · Matthias JaissleSt. Johnstone
  • 80'Goal · Odsonne EdouardCeltic · 6-0
  • 86'Goal · Leigh GriffithsCeltic · 7-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 7, draws 2, St. Johnstone 1.

Team news

Celtic line-up (4-2-3-1)

Scott Bain, Hatem Abd Elhamed, Nir Bitton, Kristoffer Ajer, Boli Bolingoli, Scott Brown, Callum McGregor, James Forrest, Ryan Christie, Mikey Johnston, Odsonne Édouard

St. Johnstone line-up (5-3-2)

Zander Clark, Richard Foster, Wallace Duffy, Madis Vihmann, Jason Kerr, Scott Tanser, Murray Davidson, Liam Craig, R. Callachan, Michael O'Halloran, Matty Kennedy