St. Johnstone 0-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 4 October 2020

Result

St. Johnstone 0-2 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 4 October 2020, 11:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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 4 October 2020. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Leigh Griffiths opened the scoring in the 90th minute. St. Johnstone did not score. Celtic scored through Leigh Griffiths (90') and Patryk Klimala (90+3').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 3 yellow cards; Celtic received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 10th on 7 points from 9 and Celtic 2nd on 22 points from 8. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 6th with 45 points, and Celtic 2nd with 77.

St. Johnstone lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Celtic in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Shane Duffy of Celtic (8.1), ahead of Hatem Abd Elhamed (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 St. Johnstone wins, 0 draws and 3 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Olivier NtchamCeltic
  • 19'Yellow card · David WotherspoonSt. Johnstone
  • 49'Yellow card · David TurnbullCeltic
  • 68'Yellow card · Murray DavidsonSt. Johnstone
  • 90'Goal · Leigh GriffithsCeltic · 0-1
  • 90+3'Goal · Patryk KlimalaCeltic · 0-2
  • 90+4'Yellow card · L. GordonSt. Johnstone

Head-to-head

3 meetings: St. Johnstone 0, draws 0, Celtic 3.

Team news

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St. Johnstone line-up (3-4-2-1)

Zander Clark, Jason Kerr, Liam Gordon, Jamie McCart, Danny McNamara, Ali McCann, Murray Davidson, Scott Tanser, Craig Conway, David Wotherspoon, Stevie May

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

Vasilios Barkas, Hatem Abd Elhamed, Shane Duffy, Kristoffer Ajer, Jeremie Frimpong, Olivier Ntcham, Callum McGregor, Greg Taylor, David Turnbull, Mohamed Elyounoussi, Odsonne Édouard