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Glasgow Rangers 2-0 Celtic Glasgow - April 12, 1998 / Premier Division 1997/1998

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Premier Division 1997/1998 - Round 33

Ibrox Park - Glasgow - Scotland

April 12, 1998

50 042

Glasgow Rangers

2 - 0

Celtic Glasgow

Jonas Thern

24'

Jörg Albertz

66'

logo Glasgow Rangers GR

23' - Substitution Darren Jacksonis substituted by Harald Brattbakk

24' - Goal Jonas Thern24

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66' - Goal Jörg Albertz66

71' - Substitution Gordon Durieis substituted by Gennaro Gattuso71

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Glasgow Rangers

2 - 0

Celtic Glasgow

Glasgow Rangers Celtic Glasgow

Team line-ups

Glasgow Rangers

Goram

Andy Goram

Scotland

B.date13/04/1964

Age33 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Björklund

Joachim Björklund

Sweden

B.date15/03/1971

Age27 years

positionCentral defender

Gough

Richard Gough

Scotland

B.date05/04/1962

Age36 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Amoruso

Lorenzo Amoruso

Italy

B.date28/06/1971

Age26 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Cleland

Alex Cleland

Scotland

B.date10/12/1970

Age27 years

positionRight full-back

Thern24

Jonas Thern

Sweden

B.date20/03/1967

Age31 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Albertz66

Jörg Albertz

Germany

B.date29/01/1971

Age27 years

H1m84

positionLeft Midfielder

McCall

Stuart McCall

Scotland

B.date10/06/1964

Age33 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Durie71

Gordon Durie

Scotland

B.date06/12/1965

Age32 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Laudrup

Brian Laudrup

Denmark

B.date22/02/1969

Age29 years

H1m86

positionWinger

McCoist

Ally McCoist

Scotland

B.date24/09/1962

Age35 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Andy Goram		33	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joachim Björklund		27	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richard Gough		36	138	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lorenzo Amoruso		26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alex Cleland		27	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jonas Thern	24	31	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jörg Albertz	66	27	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stuart McCall		33	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gordon Durie	71	32	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Brian Laudrup		29	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ally McCoist		35	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

30.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Celtic Glasgow

Gould

Jonathan Gould

Scotland

B.date18/07/1968

Age29 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

Stubbs

Alan Stubbs

England

B.date06/10/1971

Age26 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Boyd

Tommy Boyd

Scotland

B.date24/11/1965

Age32 years

H1m80

positionLeft central defender

Annoni

Enrico Annoni

Italy

B.date01/07/1966

Age31 years

H1m82

positionRight central defender

Rieper

Marc Rieper

Denmark

B.date05/06/1968

Age29 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Burley

Craig Burley

Scotland

B.date24/09/1971

Age26 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Lambert

Paul Lambert

Scotland

B.date07/08/1969

Age28 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

Donnelly

Simon Donnelly

Scotland

B.date01/12/1974

Age23 years

positionMidfield

O'Donnell

Phil O'Donnell

Scotland

B.date25/03/1972

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Jackson23

Darren Jackson

Scotland

B.date25/07/1966

Age31 years

H1m78

positionForward

Larsson

Henrik Larsson

Sweden

B.date20/09/1971

Age26 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jonathan Gould		29	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Stubbs		26	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Boyd		32	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Enrico Annoni		31	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marc Rieper		29	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Craig Burley		26	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Lambert		28	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Simon Donnelly		23	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Phil O'Donnell		26	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Darren Jackson	23	31	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Henrik Larsson		26	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Gennaro Gattuso	71	20	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Harald Brattbakk	23	27	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Lorenzo Amoruso

Gordan Petric

OUT

Gordon Durie

Gennaro Gattuso

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Alan Stubbs

Morten Wieghorst

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Walter Smith

357

Success rate in this team:

65 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

65 %

Smith vs Celtic Glasgow

18 victories

9 draws

7 losses

Latest figure on April 12, 1998

Smith vs Jansen

3 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 12, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Wim Jansen

Success rate in this team:

66 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Jansen vs Glasgow Rangers

1 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on April 12, 1998

Jansen vs Smith

1 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on April 12, 1998

Referee

Hugh Dallas

25 victories	5 draws	7 losses	Glasgow Rangers37 matches	General total	Celtic Glasgow44 matches	28 victories	7 draws	9 losses
4 victories	1 draw	1 loss	Glasgow Rangers6 matches	Season total	Celtic Glasgow2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on May 01, 2005					Latest figure on May 22, 2005

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Key figures

Only back at the time of David White head of Glasgow Rangers (01/07/1967-01/07/1969), you can see a manager go over Walter Smith with 66% of wins in Premiership (72%).

The last time Celtic Glasgow has lost with a difference of 2 goals away from home, It was on the 11/03/1997 (vs )

Only back at the time of David Hay head of Celtic Glasgow (01/07/1983-01/07/1987), you can see a manager go over Wim Jansen with 1.78 goals scored per game in Premiership (2.07).

Read the next 15 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DGlasgow Rangers 1-1 Dunfermline Athletic07/02/1998

VGlasgow Rangers 3-0 Motherwell17/02/1998

DGlasgow Rangers 2-2 Heart of Midlothian28/02/1998

DGlasgow Rangers 0-0 Dundee FC09/03/1998

VGlasgow Rangers 2-1 St. Johnstone21/03/1998

VGlasgow Rangers 3-0 Hibernian01/04/1998

Overall

LMotherwell 2-1 Glasgow Rangers14/03/1998

VDundee FC 1-2 Glasgow Rangers18/03/1998

VGlasgow Rangers 2-1 St. Johnstone21/03/1998

VDunfermline Athletic 2-3 Glasgow Rangers28/03/1998

VGlasgow Rangers 3-0 Hibernian01/04/1998

VCeltic Glasgow 1-2 Glasgow Rangers05/04/1998

Current form

Away

DHeart of Midlothian 1-1 Celtic Glasgow08/02/1998

VDunfermline Athletic 1-2 Celtic Glasgow16/02/1998

VHibernian 0-1 Celtic Glasgow28/02/1998

VDundee United 2-3 Celtic Glasgow08/03/1998

VAberdeen 0-1 Celtic Glasgow21/03/1998

VKilmarnock 1-2 Celtic Glasgow08/04/1998

Overall

VDundee United 2-3 Celtic Glasgow08/03/1998

DCeltic Glasgow 1-1 Dundee United15/03/1998

VAberdeen 0-1 Celtic Glasgow21/03/1998

DCeltic Glasgow 0-0 Heart of Midlothian28/03/1998

LCeltic Glasgow 1-2 Glasgow Rangers05/04/1998

VKilmarnock 1-2 Celtic Glasgow08/04/1998

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	5
Unbeaten streak	14	5
Drawless streak	2	6
Scoring streak	2	6
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	5	1
Unbeaten streak	8	1
Drawless streak	5	2
Scoring streak	8	2
Conceding streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

31	Number of games (Competition total)	31
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	16
18	Victories (Competition total)	20
12	Victories (Home / Away)	10
9	Draws (Competition total)	6
4	Draws (Home / Away)	3
4	Losses (Competition total)	5
0	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

69	Goals scored (Competition total)	57
44	Goals scored (Home / Away)	22
35	Goals conceded (Competition total)	20
15	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	12
2.23	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.84
2.75	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.38
1.13	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.65
0.94	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.75

Betting aid

18	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	13
11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
9	Clean sheets (Competition total)	15
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	6
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
20	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
10	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-1 (4 times)

Bookings

55	Yellow cards (Competition total)	50
31	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	35
4	Red cards (Competition total)	2
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Marco Negri	32 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	15 goals	Henrik Larsson
Marco Negri	22 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	Henrik Larsson
Marco Negri	5 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Andreas Thom
Marco Negri	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Craig Burley
Ally McCoist	4 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Henrik Larsson

Historical head to head

Home

139 matches

69 v

39 d

31 l

224 gf

149 ga

Away

142 matches

44 v

37 d

61 l

183 gf

221 ga

Neutral ground

26 matches

12 v

3 d

11 l

31 gf

36 ga

Total

307 matches

125 v

79 d

103 l

438 gf

406 ga

Historical head to head

Home

142 matches

61 v

37 d

44 l

221 gf

183 ga

Away

139 matches

31 v

39 d

69 l

149 gf

224 ga

Neutral ground

26 matches

11 v

3 d

12 l

36 gf

31 ga

Total

307 matches

103 v

79 d

125 l

406 gf

438 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	September 02, 1893
Home	5 - 0	September 02, 1893

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	October 19, 1957
Away	4 - 0	September 27, 1897

Latest head to head

April 05, 1998 - Scottish FA Cup 1997/1998

Celtic Glasgow

1 - 2

Glasgow Rangers logo Glasgow Rangers

January 02, 1998 - Premier Division 1997/1998

Celtic Glasgow

2 - 0

Glasgow Rangers logo Glasgow Rangers

November 19, 1997 - Premier Division 1997/1998

Celtic Glasgow

1 - 1

Glasgow Rangers logo Glasgow Rangers

November 08, 1997 - Premier Division 1997/1998

Glasgow Rangers

1 - 0

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

March 16, 1997 - Premier Division 1996/1997

Celtic Glasgow

0 - 1

Glasgow Rangers logo Glasgow Rangers

Best historical scorers against Celtic Glasgow

Ally McCoist	5 goals	1984 - 1998
Richard Gough	3 goals	1990 - 1997
Ralph Brand	3 goals	1963 - 1963
Derek Johnstone	2 goals	1970 - 1971
Jörg Albertz	2 goals	1997 - 1998
Davie Cooper	2 goals	1978 - 1986

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Glasgow Rangers

Bobby Lennox	3 goals	1966 - 1971
Billy McPhail	3 goals	1957 - 1957
Craig Burley	2 goals	1998 - 1998
John Hughes	2 goals	1965 - 1965
George Connelly	2 goals	1969 - 1973
Paolo Di Canio	2 goals	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Celtic Glasgow

John Greig	12 matches	1963 - 1978
Richard Gough	9 matches	1989 - 1998
Ally McCoist	9 matches	1984 - 1998
Alex Cleland	9 matches	1996 - 1998
Jörg Albertz	9 matches	1996 - 1998
Derek Johnstone	9 matches	1970 - 1982

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Glasgow Rangers

Billy McNeill	11 matches	1963 - 1973
Jimmy Johnstone	9 matches	1963 - 1973
Bobby Murdoch	9 matches	1963 - 1973
Bobby Lennox	9 matches	1965 - 1980
Alan Stubbs	8 matches	1996 - 1998
Jackie McNamara	7 matches	1996 - 1998