Rangers 0-1 Celtic: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 27 December 2008
Result
Rangers 0-1 Celtic
Premiership · Saturday 27 December 2008, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Rangers 0-1 Celtic: match report
Rangers were beaten by Celtic 0-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 27 December 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from S. McDonald of Celtic in the 58th minute.
Discipline: Rangers received 1 yellow card; Celtic received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Rangers were 2nd on 43 points from 19 and Celtic 1st on 47 points from 19. Rangers went on to finish that season 1st with 86 points, and Celtic 2nd with 82.
Rangers lined up in a 4-5-1 and Celtic in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Rangers wins, 2 draws and 3 for Celtic.
Going into the match Rangers's last five read W-D-W-L-W and Celtic's W-D-L-W-W.
Key events
- 28'Yellow card · Charlie Adam
- 38'Yellow card · Lee Naylor
- 55'Yellow card · Gary Caldwell
- 58'Goal · S. McDonald
Head-to-head
Team news
Rangers expected line-up (4-5-1)
Ronald Waterreus, Alan Hutton, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Julien Rodriguez, Fernando Ricksen, Hamed Namouchi, Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, C. Burke, Ian Murray
Celtic expected line-up (4-4-2)
Stephen McManus, Barry Robson, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, Scott Brown, G. Caldwell, Andreas Hinkel, Mark Wilson, Shunsuke Nakamura, Shaun Maloney, Paul Hartley