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Falkirk 0-1 Celtic Glasgow - January 27, 2008 / Premier League 2007/2008

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Premier League 2007/2008 - Round 24

Falkirk Stadium - Falkirk - Scotland

January 27, 2008

6 803

Falkirk

0 - 1

Celtic Glasgow

45'

Scott McDonald

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35' - Substitution Dean Holdenis substituted by Kenny Milne35

45' - Goal Scott McDonald

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68' - Substitution Shunsuke Nakamurais substituted by Evander Sno

74' - Substitution Paul Hartleyis substituted by Paul Caddis

81' - Substitution Kevin McBrideis substituted by Russell Latapy81

86' - Substitution Graham Barrettis substituted by Carl Finnigan86

90' - Substitution Scott McDonaldis substituted by Chris Killen

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Falkirk

0 - 1

Celtic Glasgow

Falkirk Celtic Glasgow

Team line-ups

Falkirk

Olejnik

Robert Olejnik

Austria

B.date26/11/1986

Age21 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Holden35

Dean Holden

Northern Ireland

B.date15/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m85

positionVersatile Defender

Barr

Darren Barr

Scotland

B.date17/03/1985

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Scobbie

Thomas Scobbie

Scotland

B.date31/03/1988

Age19 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

Ross

Jack Ross

Scotland

B.date05/06/1976

Age31 years

H1m85

positionRight full-back

Cregg

Patrick Cregg

Republic of Ireland

B.date21/02/1986

Age21 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

McBride81

Kevin McBride

Scotland

B.date14/06/1981

Age26 years

H1m78

positionBox-to-box midfielder

Barrett86

Graham Barrett

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/10/1981

Age26 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

Arfield

Scott Arfield

Canada

B.date01/11/1988

Age19 years

H1m78

positionLeft Midfielder

Riera

Arnau Riera

Spain

B.date01/10/1981

Age26 years

H1m82

positionCentre Midfield

Moutinho

Pedro Moutinho

Portugal

B.date09/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m86

positionCentre forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Robert Olejnik		21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dean Holden	35	28	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Darren Barr		22	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Thomas Scobbie		19	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jack Ross		31	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Patrick Cregg		21	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kevin McBride	81	26	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Barrett	86	26	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Scott Arfield		19	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Arnau Riera		26	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Pedro Moutinho		28	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Celtic Glasgow

Boruc

Artur Boruc

Poland

B.date20/02/1980

Age27 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Caldwell

Gary Caldwell

Scotland

B.date12/04/1982

Age25 years

H1m80

positionSweeper

McManus

Stephen McManus

Scotland

B.date10/09/1982

Age25 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

Naylor

Lee Naylor

England

B.date19/03/1980

Age27 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Donati

Massimo Donati

Italy

B.date26/03/1981

Age26 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

Hartley74

Paul Hartley

Scotland

B.date19/10/1976

Age31 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Brown

Scott Brown

Scotland

B.date25/06/1985

Age22 years

H1m65

positionRight central midfielder

Nakamura68

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japan

B.date24/06/1978

Age29 years

H1m78

positionOffensive Midfielder

McGeady

Aiden McGeady

Republic of Ireland

B.date04/04/1986

Age21 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

McDonald4590

Scott McDonald

Australia

B.date21/08/1983

Age24 years

H1m72

positionSecond striker

Vennegoor of Hesselink

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink

Netherlands

B.date07/11/1978

Age29 years

H1m91

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Artur Boruc		27	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Caldwell		25	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen McManus		25	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lee Naylor		27	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Massimo Donati		26	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Hartley	74	31	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Scott Brown		22	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shunsuke Nakamura	68	29	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Aiden McGeady		21	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Scott McDonald	4590	24	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Vennegoor of Hesselink		29	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Kenny Milne	35	28	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Russell Latapy	81	39	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Carl Finnigan	86	21	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Paul Caddis	74	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Evander Sno	68	20	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Chris Killen	90	26	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Robert Olejnik

Tim Krul

OUT

Thomas Scobbie

Kenny Milne

OUT

Patrick Cregg

Carl Finnigan

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Aiden McGeady

Andreas Hinkel

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

John Hughes

215

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Hughes vs Celtic Glasgow

1 victory

1 draw

10 losses

Latest figure on January 27, 2008

Hughes vs Strachan

1 victory

1 draw

9 losses

Latest figure on January 27, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Gordon Strachan

131

Success rate in this team:

67 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Strachan vs Falkirk

9 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 27, 2008

Strachan vs Hughes

9 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 27, 2008

Referee

John Underhill

1 victory	1 draw	6 losses	Falkirk8 matches	General total	Celtic Glasgow21 matches	19 victories	0 draw	2 losses
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Falkirk1 match	Season total	Celtic Glasgow1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on January 27, 2008					Latest figure on January 27, 2008

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Key figures

Scott McDonald played his game number 10 vs Falkirk in his professional career

Celtic Glasgow keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a loss running (since 22/12/2007).

Celtic Glasgow keeps its 6 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 22/12/2007).

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LFalkirk 1-3 Glasgow Rangers24/11/2007

VFalkirk 3-0 Dundee United08/12/2007

VFalkirk 1-0 Inverness26/12/2007

VFalkirk 2-1 Heart of Midlothian29/12/2007

DFalkirk 0-0 Aberdeen05/01/2008

DFalkirk 2-2 Aberdeen12/01/2008

Overall

VFalkirk 2-1 Heart of Midlothian29/12/2007

VKilmarnock 0-1 Falkirk02/01/2008

DFalkirk 0-0 Aberdeen05/01/2008

DFalkirk 2-2 Aberdeen12/01/2008

LGretna FC 2-0 Falkirk19/01/2008

LAberdeen 3-1 Falkirk22/01/2008

Current form

Away

LBenfica 1-0 Celtic Glasgow24/10/2007

VKilmarnock 1-2 Celtic Glasgow03/11/2007

DHeart of Midlothian 1-1 Celtic Glasgow01/12/2007

LAC Milan 1-0 Celtic Glasgow04/12/2007

LInverness 3-2 Celtic Glasgow16/12/2007

VDundee United 0-2 Celtic Glasgow26/12/2007

Overall

LInverness 3-2 Celtic Glasgow16/12/2007

DCeltic Glasgow 1-1 Hibernian22/12/2007

VDundee United 0-2 Celtic Glasgow26/12/2007

VCeltic Glasgow 3-0 Gretna FC29/12/2007

VCeltic Glasgow 3-0 Stirling Albion12/01/2008

VCeltic Glasgow 1-0 Kilmarnock19/01/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	5	0
Winless streak	2	4
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	4
Unbeaten streak	1	5
Drawless streak	3	4
Scoring streak	2	8
Invincibility streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

126	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	29
6	FBDB index ranking (National)	2

Results

23	Number of games (Competition total)	21
11	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
9	Victories (Competition total)	14
5	Victories (Home / Away)	6
5	Draws (Competition total)	4
3	Draws (Home / Away)	1
9	Losses (Competition total)	3
3	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

34	Goals scored (Competition total)	52
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	23
37	Goals conceded (Competition total)	17
11	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	15
1.48	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.48
1.18	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2.3
1.61	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.81
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.5

Betting aid

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

Bookings

30	Yellow cards (Competition total)	34
13	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	21
6	Red cards (Competition total)	0
4	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Michael Higdon	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	14 goals	Scott McDonald
Michael Higdon	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	Vennegoor of Hesselink
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Scott McDonald
Michael Higdon	4 goals during the last 9 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Scott McDonald

Historical head to head

Home

74 matches

18 v

18 d

38 l

86 gf

119 ga

Away

78 matches

8 v

11 d

59 l

65 gf

216 ga

Total

152 matches

26 v

29 d

97 l

151 gf

335 ga

Historical head to head

Home

78 matches

59 v

11 d

8 l

216 gf

65 ga

Away

74 matches

38 v

18 d

18 l

119 gf

86 ga

Total

152 matches

97 v

29 d

26 l

335 gf

151 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	April 14, 1965
Home	6 - 2	April 14, 1965

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 1	September 21, 2004
Away	5 - 0	September 16, 1905

Latest head to head

December 11, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Celtic Glasgow

4 - 0

Falkirk

August 11, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Falkirk

1 - 4

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

March 18, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Falkirk

1 - 0

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

December 23, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Celtic Glasgow

1 - 0

Falkirk

November 07, 2006 - Scottish League Cup 2006/2007

Celtic Glasgow

1 - 1

Falkirk

Best historical scorers against Celtic Glasgow

Darryl Duffy	1 goal	2005 - 2005
Kenny Milne	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Michael Higdon	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Steven Thomson	1 goal	2007 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/08/2005. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Falkirk

Aiden McGeady	5 goals	2005 - 2007
Alan Thompson	2 goals	2005 - 2005
John Hartson	2 goals	2005 - 2005
Kenny Miller	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Vennegoor of Hesselink	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Stephen McManus	1 goal	2006 - 2006

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/08/2005. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Celtic Glasgow

Russell Latapy	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Kenny Milne	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Steven Thomson	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Patrick Cregg	6 matches	2006 - 2007
Pedro Moutinho	6 matches	2005 - 2007
Alan Gow	6 matches	2005 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/08/2005. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Falkirk

Stephen McManus	8 matches	2005 - 2007
Shunsuke Nakamura	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Artur Boruc	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Aiden McGeady	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Maciej Zurawski	6 matches	2005 - 2007
Paul Telfer	6 matches	2005 - 2006