Hearts 1-1 Celtic: result and report
Premiership · Sunday 27 December 2015
Result
Hearts 1-1 Celtic
Premiership · Sunday 27 December 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Hearts 1-1 Celtic: match report
Hearts drew with Celtic 1-1 in the Premiership on Sunday 27 December 2015. It was 1-1 at half-time.
N. Bitton opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Hearts's goals came from Sam Nicholson (45+1') and Osman Sow (90+1'). Celtic scored through N. Bitton (42') and Tom Rogic (70').
Discipline: Hearts received 1 yellow card; Celtic received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Hearts were 4th on 30 points from 18 and Celtic 2nd on 36 points from 18. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 63 points, and Celtic 1st with 74.
Hearts lined up in a 4-4-2 and Celtic in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Hearts wins, 1 draw and 9 for Celtic.
Going into the match Hearts's last five read D-L-D-D-W and Celtic's L-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 28'Yellow card · Stefan Johansen
- 42'Goal · N. Bitton
- 45+1'Goal · Sam Nicholson
- 51'Yellow card · E. Ambrose
- 64'Yellow card · B. Augustyn
- 70'Goal · Tom Rogic
- 79'Yellow card · N. Çiftçi
- 90+1'Goal · Osman Sow
Head-to-head
Team news
Hearts line-up (4-4-2)
Neil Alexander, Błażej Augustyn, Juwon Oshaniwa, Igor Rossi, Morgaro Gomis, Prince Bauben, Sam Nicholson, Arnaud Djoum, Callum Paterson, Osman Sow, Gavin Reilly
Celtic line-up (4-2-3-1)
Craig Gordon, Jozo Simunovic, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera, Mikael Lustig, Kieran Tierney, Nir Bitton, Stuart Armstrong, Tom Rogić, Stefan Johansen, Callum McGregor, Nadir Çiftçi