St. Johnstone 1-3 Celtic: result and report
Premiership · Sunday 26 December 2021
Result
St. Johnstone 1-3 Celtic
Premiership · Sunday 26 December 2021, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-2
St. Johnstone 1-3 Celtic: match report
St. Johnstone were beaten by Celtic 1-3 in the Premiership on Sunday 26 December 2021. It was 0-2 at half-time.
L. Abada opened the scoring in the 9th minute. St. Johnstone's goal came from Chris Kane (69'). Celtic scored through L. Abada (9'), L. Abada (22') and N. Bitton (82').
Discipline: St. Johnstone received 2 yellow cards; Celtic received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game St. Johnstone were 12th on 14 points from 19 and Celtic 2nd on 42 points from 19. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 11th with 35 points, and Celtic 1st with 93.
St. Johnstone lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Celtic in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Liel Abada of Celtic (8.9), ahead of Nir Bitton (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 St. Johnstone wins, 1 draw and 4 for Celtic.
Key events
- 9'Goal · L. Abada
- 22'Goal · L. Abada
- 59'Yellow card · Jacob Butterfield
- 69'Goal · Chris Kane
- 82'Goal · N. Bitton
- 85'Yellow card · Lars Dendoncker
- 86'Yellow card · N. Bitton
Head-to-head
Team news
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- David Wotherspoon
- David Turnbull
- Albian Ajeti
- Karamoko Dembélé
- Christopher Jullien
- Cameron MacPherson
- Shaun Rooney
- Eetu Vertainen
- Zander Clark
St. Johnstone line-up (3-4-2-1)
Elliot Parish, Lars Dendoncker, Liam Gordon, Jamie McCart, James Brown, Craig Bryson, Jacob Butterfield, Callum Booth, Ali Crawford, Viv Solomon-Otabor, Stevie May
Celtic line-up (4-3-1-2)
Vasilios Barkas, Stephen Welsh, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Carl Starfelt, Liam Scales, Josip Juranovic, Nir Bitton, James McCarthy, Tom Rogić, Liel Abada, Kyogo Furuhashi