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Celtic Glasgow 2-0 Aberdeen - April 18, 2009 / Premier League 2008/2009

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Premier League 2008/2009 - Round 33

Celtic Park - Glasgow - Scotland

April 18, 2009

58 581

Celtic Glasgow

2 - 0

Aberdeen

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink

43'

Scott McDonald

55'

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33' - Substitution Derek Youngis substituted by Stuart Duff

43' - Goal Vennegoor of Hesselink43

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55' - Goal Scott McDonald55

56' - Substitution Jamie Smithis substituted by Tommy Wright

67' - Substitution Zander Diamondis substituted by Javan Vidal

83' - Substitution Marc Crosasis substituted by Paul Hartley83

85' - Substitution Aiden McGeadyis substituted by Koki Mizuno85

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Celtic Glasgow

2 - 0

Aberdeen

Celtic Glasgow Aberdeen

Team line-ups

Celtic Glasgow

Boruc

Artur Boruc

Poland

B.date20/02/1980

Age29 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Caldwell

Gary Caldwell

Scotland

B.date12/04/1982

Age27 years

H1m80

positionSweeper

Loovens

Glenn Loovens

Netherlands

B.date22/09/1983

Age25 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Naylor

Lee Naylor

England

B.date19/03/1980

Age29 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Hinkel

Andreas Hinkel

Germany

B.date26/03/1982

Age27 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Crosas83

Marc Crosas

Spain

B.date09/01/1988

Age21 years

H1m72

positionMidfield

Brown

Scott Brown

Scotland

B.date25/06/1985

Age23 years

H1m65

positionRight central midfielder

McGeady85

Aiden McGeady

Republic of Ireland

B.date04/04/1986

Age23 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Nakamura

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japan

B.date24/06/1978

Age30 years

H1m78

positionOffensive Midfielder

McDonald55

Scott McDonald

Australia

B.date21/08/1983

Age25 years

H1m72

positionSecond striker

Vennegoor of Hesselink43

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink

Netherlands

B.date07/11/1978

Age30 years

H1m91

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Artur Boruc		29	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Caldwell		27	121	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Glenn Loovens		25	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lee Naylor		29	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andreas Hinkel		27	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Marc Crosas	83	21	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Scott Brown		23	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Aiden McGeady	85	23	189	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shunsuke Nakamura		30	158	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Scott McDonald	55	25	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Vennegoor of Hesselink	43	30	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

104

Aberdeen

Langfield

Jamie Langfield

Scotland

B.date22/12/1979

Age29 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Diamond67

Zander Diamond

Scotland

B.date03/12/1985

Age23 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

Considine

Andrew Considine

Scotland

B.date01/04/1987

Age22 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

Foster

Richard Foster

Scotland

B.date31/07/1985

Age23 years

H1m76

positionRight full-back

Mulgrew

Charlie Mulgrew

Scotland

B.date06/03/1986

Age23 years

H1m91

positionLeft full-back

Severin

Scott Severin

Scotland

B.date15/02/1979

Age30 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Young33

Derek Young

Scotland

B.date27/05/1980

Age28 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

McDonald

Gary McDonald

Scotland

B.date10/04/1982

Age27 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

Smith56

Jamie Smith

Scotland

B.date20/11/1980

Age28 years

H1m70

positionOffensive Midfielder

Aluko

Sone Aluko

Nigeria

B.date19/02/1989

Age20 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Maguire

Chris Maguire

Scotland

B.date16/01/1989

Age20 years

H1m70

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jamie Langfield		29	135	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Zander Diamond	67	23	177	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andrew Considine		22	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richard Foster		23	190	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Charlie Mulgrew		23	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Scott Severin		30	184	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Derek Young	33	28	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary McDonald		27	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jamie Smith	56	28	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sone Aluko		20	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Chris Maguire		20	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

107

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Koki Mizuno	85	23	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Paul Hartley	83	32	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Stuart Duff	33	27	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tommy Wright	56	24	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Javan Vidal	67	19	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Marc Crosas

Willo Flood

OUT

Shunsuke Nakamura

Stephen McManus

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Zander Diamond

Lee Mair

OUT

Andrew Considine

Lee Miller

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Gordon Strachan

198

Success rate in this team:

66 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Strachan vs Aberdeen

13 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 18, 2009

Strachan vs Calderwood

13 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 18, 2009

Manager

Age

Match num

Jimmy Calderwood

220

Success rate in this team:

42 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Calderwood vs Celtic Glasgow

4 victories

4 draws

31 losses

Latest figure on April 18, 2009

Calderwood vs Strachan

2 victories

2 draws

13 losses

Latest figure on April 18, 2009

Referee

Douglas McDonald

37 victories	2 draws	6 losses	Celtic Glasgow45 matches	General total	Aberdeen27 matches	8 victories	7 draws	12 losses
3 victories	0 draw	2 losses	Celtic Glasgow5 matches	Season total	Aberdeen4 matches	1 victory	1 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on October 17, 2010					Latest figure on August 14, 2010

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Key figures

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored 7 goals vs in Premiership with

Only back at the time of Roy Aitken head of (06/02/1995-21/11/1997), you can see a manager go over Jimmy Calderwood with 1.25 goals scored per game in Premiership (1.29).

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored 7 goals vs Aberdeen in Premiership

Read the next 17 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DCeltic Glasgow 0-0 Dundee United28/01/2009

VCeltic Glasgow 2-1 Queen's Park Glasgow07/02/2009

DCeltic Glasgow 0-0 Glasgow Rangers15/02/2009

VCeltic Glasgow 7-0 St. Mirren28/02/2009

VCeltic Glasgow 4-0 Hamilton Academical04/04/2009

VCeltic Glasgow 4-0 Falkirk08/04/2009

Overall

LSt. Mirren 1-0 Celtic Glasgow07/03/2009

VGlasgow Rangers 0-2 Celtic Glasgow15/03/2009

DDundee United 2-2 Celtic Glasgow22/03/2009

VCeltic Glasgow 4-0 Hamilton Academical04/04/2009

VCeltic Glasgow 4-0 Falkirk08/04/2009

DHeart of Midlothian 1-1 Celtic Glasgow11/04/2009

Current form

Away

LFalkirk 1-0 Aberdeen31/01/2009

LHeart of Midlothian 2-1 Aberdeen14/02/2009

DSt. Mirren 1-1 Aberdeen03/03/2009

DDunfermline Athletic 1-1 Aberdeen07/03/2009

DHibernian 0-0 Aberdeen21/03/2009

DMotherwell 1-1 Aberdeen04/04/2009

Overall

DDunfermline Athletic 1-1 Aberdeen07/03/2009

VAberdeen 1-0 Hamilton Academical14/03/2009

DAberdeen 0-0 Dunfermline Athletic18/03/2009

DHibernian 0-0 Aberdeen21/03/2009

DMotherwell 1-1 Aberdeen04/04/2009

VAberdeen 1-0 Inverness11/04/2009

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	20	5
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	3	0
Scoring streak	3	5
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	4	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	4	0
Unbeaten streak	4	10
Winless streak	6	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

18	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	98
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	4

Results

32	Number of games (Competition total)	32
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	16
21	Victories (Competition total)	13
12	Victories (Home / Away)	5
8	Draws (Competition total)	9
3	Draws (Home / Away)	5
3	Losses (Competition total)	10
1	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

73	Goals scored (Competition total)	36
44	Goals scored (Home / Away)	17
30	Goals conceded (Competition total)	31
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
2.28	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.13
2.75	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.06
0.94	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.97
0.75	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.13

Betting aid

20	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	11
11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
14	Clean sheets (Competition total)	13
10	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	5
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
17	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
4-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (3 times)

Bookings

36	Yellow cards (Competition total)	52
15	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	23
2	Red cards (Competition total)	3
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	2

Key players

Georgios Samaras	14 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Lee Miller
Georgios Samaras	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	Darren Mackie
Shunsuke Nakamura	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Lee Miller
Barry Robson	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Vennegoor of Hesselink	3 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Gary McDonald

Historical head to head

Home

135 matches

85 v

25 d

25 l

276 gf

128 ga

Away

138 matches

50 v

40 d

48 l

190 gf

179 ga

Neutral ground

7 matches

2 v

1 d

4 l

7 gf

8 ga

Total

280 matches

137 v

66 d

77 l

473 gf

315 ga

Historical head to head

Home

138 matches

48 v

40 d

50 l

179 gf

190 ga

Away

135 matches

25 v

25 d

85 l

128 gf

276 ga

Neutral ground

7 matches

4 v

1 d

2 l

8 gf

7 ga

Total

280 matches

77 v

66 d

137 l

315 gf

473 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	January 30, 1965
Home	8 - 0	January 30, 1965

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	January 14, 1950
Away	5 - 1	January 02, 1947

Latest head to head

January 18, 2009 - Premier League 2008/2009

Aberdeen

4 - 2

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

September 27, 2008 - Premier League 2008/2009

Celtic Glasgow

3 - 2

Aberdeen

April 19, 2008 - Premier League 2007/2008

Celtic Glasgow

1 - 0

Aberdeen

March 18, 2008 - Scottish FA Cup 2007/2008

Celtic Glasgow

0 - 1

Aberdeen

March 09, 2008 - Scottish FA Cup 2007/2008

Aberdeen

1 - 1

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

Best historical scorers against Aberdeen

Henrik Larsson	25 goals	1997 - 2004
John Hartson	11 goals	2002 - 2006
Mark Viduka	8 goals	1999 - 1999
Vennegoor of Hesselink	7 goals	2006 - 2008
Stilian Petrov	6 goals	2001 - 2006
Scott McDonald	5 goals	2007 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/04/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Celtic Glasgow

Darren Mackie	6 goals	2001 - 2008
John Stewart	3 goals	2004 - 2006
Zander Diamond	3 goals	2005 - 2009
Derek McKay	2 goals	1970 - 1970
Charlie Mulgrew	2 goals	2008 - 2008
Bryan Prunty	1 goal	2004 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/04/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Aberdeen

Jackie McNamara	27 matches	1996 - 2005
Stilian Petrov	21 matches	1999 - 2006
Henrik Larsson	21 matches	1997 - 2004
Paul Lambert	20 matches	1997 - 2004
Neil Lennon	20 matches	2000 - 2007
Dianbobo Baldé	18 matches	2001 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/04/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Celtic Glasgow

Darren Mackie	21 matches	2001 - 2009
Richard Foster	18 matches	2003 - 2009
Russell Anderson	17 matches	1997 - 2007
Zander Diamond	17 matches	2004 - 2009
Chris Clark	17 matches	2002 - 2007
Scott Severin	17 matches	2004 - 2009