Hearts 2-0 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 3 March 2024

Result

Hearts 2-0 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 3 March 2024, 12:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Hearts · Celtic · Premiership predictions

Hearts 2-0 Celtic: match report

Hearts beat Celtic 2-0 in the Premiership on Sunday 3 March 2024. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jorge Grant opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Hearts's goals came from Jorge Grant (43', penalty) and Lawrence Shankland (56'). Celtic did not score.

Discipline: Hearts received 2 yellow cards; Celtic received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 52 points from 28 and Celtic 2nd on 68 points from 28. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 68 points, and Celtic 1st with 93.

Hearts lined up in a 3-5-2 and Celtic in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Zander Clark of Hearts (8.8), ahead of Matt O'Riley (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Hearts win, 0 draws and 5 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Missed penalty · Adam IdahCeltic
  • 16'Red card · Hyun-jun YangCeltic
  • 43'Penalty goal · Jorge GrantHearts · 1-0
  • 56'Goal · Lawrence ShanklandHearts · 2-0
  • 81'Yellow card · Alistair JohnstonCeltic
  • 86'Yellow card · Alex CochraneHearts
  • 89'Yellow card · Daniel KellyCeltic
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Macaulay TaitHearts

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Hearts 1, draws 0, Celtic 5.

Team news

Hearts line-up (3-5-2)

Zander Clark, Toby Sibbick, Stephen Kingsley, Kye Rowles, Dexter Lembikisa, Calem Nieuwenhof, Beni Baningime, Jorge Grant, Alex Cochrane, Lawrence Shankland, Alan Forrest

Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, Matt O'Riley, Tomoki Iwata, Paulo Bernardo, Hyun-jun Yang, Adam Idah, Daizen Maeda