St. Johnstone 0-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 13 December 2015

Result

St. Johnstone 0-2 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 13 December 2015, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

St. Johnstone · Celtic · Premiership predictions

St. Johnstone 0-2 Celtic: match report

St. Johnstone were beaten by Celtic 0-2 in the Premiership on Sunday 13 December 2015. It was 0-1 at half-time.

N. Çiftçi opened the scoring in the 35th minute. St. Johnstone did not score. Celtic scored through N. Çiftçi (35'), Dedryck Boyata (49') and N. Çiftçi (67').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 4 yellow cards; Celtic received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 3rd on 31 points from 17 and Celtic 2nd on 33 points from 16. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 4th with 57 points, and Celtic 1st with 74.

St. Johnstone 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 1 St. Johnstone win, 3 draws and 6 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · E. IzaguirreCeltic
  • 24'Yellow card · Dave MacKaySt. Johnstone
  • 35'Goal · N. ÇiftçiCeltic · 0-1
  • 45+1'Yellow card · David MackaySt. Johnstone
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Steven MacLeanSt. Johnstone
  • 49'Goal · Dedryck BoyataCeltic · 0-2
  • 59'Yellow card · Stefan JohansenCeltic
  • 63'Yellow card · David WotherspoonSt. Johnstone
  • 67'Goal · N. ÇiftçiCeltic · 0-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: St. Johnstone 1, draws 3, Celtic 6.

Team news

St. Johnstone line-up (4-4-2)

Alan Mannus, David Mackay, Steven Anderson, Joe Shaughnessy, Brian Easton, Chris Millar, Murray Davidson, David Wotherspoon, Liam Craig, Steven MacLean, Michael O'Halloran

Celtic line-up (4-2-3-1)

Craig Gordon, Emilio Arturo Izaguirre Girón, Jozo Simunovic, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera, Mikael Lustig, Stuart Armstrong, Tom Rogić, Stefan Johansen, Callum McGregor, James Forrest, Nadir Çiftçi