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0–1
9 Sep 2026
Scottish Premiership Wed 9 Sep, 20:00London McDiarmid Park, Perth Matthew Macdermid 9,879 attendance

Timeline

  1. 52' Mika Baur
  2. 55' Josh Campbell Yellow Card
  3. 63' Samuel Stanton for Jason Holt
  4. 63' Ruari Paton for Josh Fowler
  5. 67' Benjamin Nygren for Oliver Sørensen
  6. 69' Reece McAlear Yellow Card
  7. 73' Camilo Durán for Haissem Hassan
  8. 73' James Forrest for Sebastian Tounekti
  9. 74' Danny Schmidt for Josh Campbell
  10. 74' Kai Fotheringham for Taylor Steven
  11. 82' Liam Scales Yellow Card
  12. 86' Shim Mheuka for Kasper Høgh
  13. 87' Kieran Tierney for Liam Scales
  14. 87' Macauley Tait for Joel Cotterill
  15. 90'+4' Mika Baur Yellow Card

Match stats

39.7% Possession 60.3%
9 Shots 15
3 On target 9
13 Fouls 9
2 Yellow cards 2
0 Red cards 0
0 Offsides 2
8 Saves 3
299 Accurate passes 522

Lineups

St Johnstone 4-2-3-1
1 Steward
2 Alic 3 Diabaté 19 Finlayson 26 Todd
42 McAlear 8 Holt
7 Steven 30 Cotterill 32 Campbell
9 Fowler
Celtic 4-2-3-1
26 Johnstone
5 Scales 6 Trusty 47 Murray 51 Donovan
22 Baur 42 McGregor
17 Tounekti 18 Sørensen 23 Hassan
9 Høgh
St Johnstone 4-2-3-1
  1. 1 Toby Steward G
  2. 3 Cheick Diabaté CD-L
  3. 19 Daniel Finlayson CD-R
  4. 2 Enes Alic LB
  5. 26 Matthew Todd RB
  6. 30 Joel Cotterill ▼ AM
  7. 42 Reece McAlear LM
  8. 8 Jason Holt ▼ RM
  9. 9 Josh Fowler ▼ F
  10. 7 Taylor Steven ▼ AM-L
  11. 32 Josh Campbell ▼ AM-R

Came on

  1. 18 Kai Fotheringham ▲ SUB
  2. 25 Macauley Tait ▲ SUB
  3. 99 Ruari Paton ▲ SUB
  4. 11 Samuel Stanton ▲ SUB
  5. 22 Danny Schmidt ▲ SUB
Unused substitutes (4)
  1. 14 Matty Foulds SUB
  2. 33 Liam Smith SUB
  3. 4 Morgan Boyes SUB
  4. 20 Ross Sinclair SUB
Celtic 4-2-3-1
  1. 26 Sam Johnstone G
  2. 6 Auston Trusty CD-L
  3. 47 Dane Murray CD-R
  4. 5 Liam Scales ▼ LB
  5. 51 Colby Donovan RB
  6. 18 Oliver Sørensen ▼ AM
  7. 22 Mika Baur LM
  8. 42 Callum McGregor RM
  9. 9 Kasper Høgh ▼ F
  10. 17 Sebastian Tounekti ▼ AM-L
  11. 23 Haissem Hassan ▼ AM-R

Came on

  1. 8 Benjamin Nygren ▲ SUB
  2. 29 Shim Mheuka ▲ SUB
  3. 63 Kieran Tierney ▲ SUB
  4. 49 James Forrest ▲ SUB
  5. 11 Camilo Durán ▲ SUB
Unused substitutes (4)
  1. 21 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain SUB
  2. 3 Jordan Lotomba SUB
  3. 35 Joel Van Den Berg SUB
  4. 1 Viljami Sinisalo SUB

Commentary

  1. 90'+4' Mika Baur (Celtic) Yellow Card at 90'+4'
  2. 87' Macauley Tait (St Johnstone) Substitution at 87'
  3. 87' Kieran Tierney (Celtic) Substitution at 87'
  4. 86' Shim Mheuka (Celtic) Substitution at 86'
  5. 82' Liam Scales (Celtic) Yellow Card at 82'
  6. 74' Kai Fotheringham (St Johnstone) Substitution at 74'
  7. 74' Danny Schmidt (St Johnstone) Substitution at 74'
  8. 73' James Forrest (Celtic) Substitution at 73'
  9. 73' Camilo Durán (Celtic) Substitution at 73'
  10. 69' Reece McAlear (St Johnstone) Yellow Card at 69'
  11. 67' Benjamin Nygren (Celtic) Substitution at 67'
  12. 63' Ruari Paton (St Johnstone) Substitution at 63'
3 earlier entries
  1. 63' Samuel Stanton (St Johnstone) Substitution at 63'
  2. 55' Josh Campbell (St Johnstone) Yellow Card at 55'
  3. 52' Mika Baur (Celtic) Goal at 52'

Recent form

St Johnstone W D L L W

  • W Kilmarnock 4-3 SPFL Premiership
  • L at St Mirren 1-0 SPFL Premiership
  • L at Heart of Midlothian 2-1 SPFL Premiership
  • D at Dundee 1-1 SPFL Premiership
  • W Hibernian 2-1 SPFL Premiership

Celtic W W W L W

  • W LASK 3-0 UEFA Champions League Qualifying
  • L at LASK 5-1 UEFA Champions League Qualifying
  • W Falkirk 2-1 SPFL Premiership
  • W Aberdeen 3-0 SPFL Premiership
  • W at St Mirren 2-1 SPFL Premiership

Head to head

CEL leads series 4-1

  • 20 Apr 2025 St Johnstone 0–5 Celtic 2024-25 Scottish Cup
  • 6 Apr 2025 St Johnstone 1–0 Celtic 2024-25 Scottish Premiership
  • 29 Dec 2024 Celtic 4–0 St Johnstone 2024-25 Scottish Premiership
  • 28 Sep 2024 St Johnstone 0–6 Celtic 2024-25 Scottish Premiership
  • 5 Feb 2023 St Johnstone 1–4 Celtic 2022-23 Scottish Premiership

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