Celtic 2-0 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 23 October 2021

Result

Celtic 2-0 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Saturday 23 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Celtic · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Celtic 2-0 St. Johnstone: match report

Celtic defeated St. Johnstone 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 23 October 2021. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Georgios Giakoumakis opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Celtic's goals came from Georgios Giakoumakis (34') and Josip Juranovic (80', penalty). St. Johnstone did not score.

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; St. Johnstone received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 4th on 16 points from 9 and St. Johnstone 8th on 9 points from 9. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and St. Johnstone 11th with 35.

Celtic lined up in a 4-3-3 and St. Johnstone in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Carl Starfelt of Celtic (8.2), level with Josip Juranovic (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Celtic wins, 1 draw and 0 for St. Johnstone.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · Cammy MacPhersonSt. Johnstone
  • 34'Goal · Georgios GiakoumakisCeltic · 1-0
  • 55'Yellow card · Craig BrysonSt. Johnstone
  • 77'Yellow card · Cameron Carter-VickersCeltic
  • 77'Yellow card · Chris KaneSt. Johnstone
  • 79'Yellow card · E. AmbroseSt. Johnstone
  • 79'Yellow card · L. GordonSt. Johnstone
  • 80'Penalty goal · Josip JuranovicCeltic · 2-0

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Celtic 6, draws 1, St. Johnstone 0.

Team news

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Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Anthony Ralston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Carl Starfelt, Josip Juranovic, Tom Rogić, Callum McGregor, David Turnbull, Kyogo Furuhashi, Georgios Giakoumakis, Jota

St. Johnstone line-up (3-4-3)

Zander Clark, Efe Eric Ambrose, Liam Gordon, Jamie McCart, James Brown, Cameron MacPherson, Craig Bryson, Callum Booth, Glenn Middleton, Chris Kane, David Wotherspoon