SK Rapid 0-2 Celtic: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 17 December 2009

Result

SK Rapid 0-2 Celtic

Europa League · Thursday 17 December 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

SK Rapid · Celtic · Europa League predictions

SK Rapid 0-2 Celtic: match report

SK Rapid lost to Celtic 0-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 17 December 2009. The half-time score was 3-1.

Nikica Jelavić opened the scoring in the 1st minute. SK Rapid's goals came from Nikica Jelavić (1'), Nikica Jelavić (8') and Hamdi Salihi (19'). Celtic scored through Marc-Antoine Fortune (24'), Marc-Antoine Fortune (67') and Paul McGowan (90').

Discipline: SK Rapid received 2 yellow cards; Celtic received no yellow cards.

Going into the game SK Rapid were 15th on 16 points from 11 and Celtic 84th on 5 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Nikica JelavićSK Rapid · 1-0
  • 8'Goal · Nikica JelavićSK Rapid · 2-0
  • 15'Yellow card · Jürgen PatockaSK Rapid
  • 19'Goal · Hamdi SalihiSK Rapid · 3-0
  • 24'Goal · Marc-Antoine FortuneCeltic · 3-1
  • 67'Goal · Marc-Antoine FortuneCeltic · 3-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Christopher DrazanSK Rapid
  • 90'Goal · Paul McGowanCeltic · 3-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: SK Rapid 0, draws 1, Celtic 0.

Team news

SK Rapid expected line-up

Helge Payer, Andreas Dober, Jozef Valachovic, Marcin Adamski, Peter Hlinka, Gyorgy Korsos, Andreas Ivanschitz, Marek Kincl, Steffen Hofmann, Martin Hiden

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