Celtic |
2 - 0 |
Dundee Utd |
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League (SPL) |
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Goalscorers | |
John Hartson (37) Craig Beattie (88) |
None. |
Team Managers | |
Gordon Strachan |
Gordon Chisholm |
Starting Eleven | |
Artur Boruc Paul Telfer Bobo Baldé Stephen McManus Mo Camara Stiliyan Petrov Neil Lennon Alan Thompson Shunsuke Nakamura John Hartson Maciej Żurawski |
Derek Stillie .1 Stuart Duff .12 Alan Archibald .5 David McCracken .3 Mark Wilson .2 Barry Robson .11 Mark Kerr .7 Grant Brebner .8 Jim McIntyre .10 Lee Miller .9 Stevie Crawford .19 |
Bench | |
David Marshall Darren O'Dea J |
Craig Samson .17 Garry Kenneth .18 Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/customer/www/arabarchive.co.uk/public_html/matchdetails.php on line 2292 Graeme Holmes Greg Cameron .26 David Robertson .25 Collin Samuel .21 Billy Dodds |
Substitutions | |
Shaun Maloney for Maciej Żurawski (64) Craig Beattie for Shunsuke Nakamura (84) |
Collin Samuel for Barry Robson (48) |
Cautions | |
Stiliyan Petrov (64) |
Stevie Crawford (22) David McCracken (62) |
Red Cards | |
None. | None. |
Match Officials | |
Iain Brines (Referee) |
Within the first minute the tone of the game was set as Celtic’s Japanese debutant Nakamura had his header cleared off the line by Duff. In the 9th minute, United gave the shaky Celtic defence a scare as Miller chased a loose ball down the right and crossed for McIntyre to head just over from 6 yards out. This was the start of a period of good United pressure although there was little end product. With 17 minutes on the clock, Celtic almost went ahead when Polish striker Zurawski was put through one on one with Stillie but the United keeper blocked the striker’s effort. This was the start of a prolonged period of Celtic pressure as the United midfield struggled to cope with the runs of Nakamura.
Just when it looked as if United had weathered any storm that Celtic could throw at them, they were undone in the 36th minute. A long ball over the top looked to be causing no bother as McCracken ushered the ball towards his own area shadowed by Hartson. The United defender stumbled under heavy pressure from the large Celtic striker, leaving the Welshman one on one with Stillie. He made no mistake with the finish and it was one nil Celtic.
In 39 minutes, a high looping cross from Wilson was headed up in the air by Miller and, as the ball dropped, he lashed a volley just past the left hand post.
The second half was a scrappy event on the whole as both teams seemed to lack the cutting edge. Robson had to be replaced by Samuel in the 48th minute as a knock he took in the first half continued to give him pain. In the 58th minute, United had what appeared a strong claim for a penalty turned down. As the Celtic defence sloppily miscontrolled the ball, Miller nipped in front of Balde and, as the big Celtic defender challenged the striker, he went down in a heap. Although the referee waved away United’s penalty claims he then, bizarrely, stopped play to allow treatment to Miller.
Although Celtic continued to dominate the game, United knew that as long as one goal was the gap they had a chance. One such chance came in the 71st minute. A mistimed strike by Miller fell to Crawford 16 yards out but the forward’s strike lacked any conviction and was easily collected by Celtic keeper Boruc. As United committed men forward in the closing stages, they were always going to leave gaps in defence and, in the 87th minute, Celtic scored the second decisive goal. Beattie peeled away from the United defence at the back post and Maloney’s delicate chip was dispatched high into the corner of Stillie’s net.
2005-06 | All Time | |||||
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Derek Stillie (GK) | 31 |
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2 | - | 2 | - |
Alan Archibald | 27 |
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2 | - | 90 | 6 |
Stuart Duff | 23 |
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2 | - | 101 | 3 |
Mark Wilson | 21 |
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2 | - | 115 | 11 |
David McCracken | 23 |
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2 | - | 132 | 5 |
Mark Kerr | 23 |
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2 | - | 74 | 3 |
Grant Brebner | 27 |
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2 | - | 42 | 2 |
Barry Robson | 26 |
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1 | - | 75 | 11 |
Stevie Crawford | 31 |
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2 | - | 25 | 5 |
Lee Miller | 22 |
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2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Jim McIntyre | 33 |
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2 | - | 137 | 42 |
Collin Samuel (sub) | 23 |
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2 | - | 55 | 2 |
No league table has been added for this season.