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Celtic Glasgow 2-1 Kilmarnock - December 24, 2011 / Premier League 2011/2012

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Premier League 2011/2012 - Journée 20

Celtic Park - Glasgow - Scotland

December 24, 2011

49 352

Celtic Glasgow

2 - 1

Kilmarnock

Georgios Samaras

45'

Georgios Samaras

53'

87'

Danny Racchi

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45' - Goal Georgios Samaras45

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50' - Substitution James Forrestis substituted by Kelvin Wilson50

53' - Goal Georgios Samaras53

63' - Substitution Danny Buijsis substituted by James Dayton

65' - Substitution Georgios Samarasis substituted by Mohamed Bangura65

73' - Substitution Dean Shielsis substituted by Danny Racchi

77' - Substitution Garry Hayis substituted by Matthew Kennedy

87' - Goal Danny Racchi

91' - Substitution Sung-yueng Kiis substituted by Thomas Rogne91

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Celtic Glasgow

2 - 1

Kilmarnock

Celtic Glasgow Kilmarnock

Team line-ups

Celtic Glasgow

1 Forster

Fraser Forster

England

B.date17/03/1988

Age23 years

H2m101

positionGoalkeeper

11 Cha

Du-ri Cha

South Korea

B.date25/07/1980

Age31 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

21 Mulgrew

Charlie Mulgrew

Scotland

B.date06/03/1986

Age25 years

H1m91

positionLeft full-back

16 Ledley

Joe Ledley

Wales

B.date21/01/1987

Age24 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

18 Ki90+1

Sung-yueng Ki

South Korea

B.date24/01/1989

Age22 years

H1m89

positionBox-to-box midfielder

67 Wanyama

Victor Wanyama

Kenya

B.date25/06/1991

Age20 years

H1m88

positionCentre Midfield

8 Brown

Scott Brown

Scotland

B.date25/06/1985

Age26 years

H1m65

positionRight central midfielder

33 Kayal

Beram Kayal

Israel

B.date02/05/1988

Age23 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

49 Forrest50

James Forrest

Scotland

B.date07/07/1991

Age20 years

H1m75

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

9 Samaras455365

Georgios Samaras

Greece

B.date21/02/1985

Age26 years

H1m92

positionForward

88 Hooper

Gary Hooper

England

B.date26/01/1988

Age23 years

H1m75

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Fraser Forster		23	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	D	Du-ri Cha		31	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Charlie Mulgrew		25	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Joe Ledley		24	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Sung-yueng Ki	90+1	22	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
67	M	Victor Wanyama		20	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Scott Brown		26	177	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	M	Beram Kayal		23	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
49	M	James Forrest	50	20	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Georgios Samaras	455365	26	161	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
88	F	Gary Hooper		23	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Kilmarnock

1 Bell

Cameron Bell

Scotland

B.date19/09/1986

Age25 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

9 Buijs63

Danny Buijs

Netherlands

B.date21/06/1982

Age29 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

29 Pascali

Manuel Pascali

Italy

B.date09/09/1981

Age30 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

88 Sissoko

Mohamadou Sissoko

France

B.date08/08/1988

Age23 years

H1m92

positionCentral defender

23 McKeown

Rory McKeown

Northern Ireland

B.date08/04/1993

Age18 years

H1m80

positionLeft central defender

3 Hay77

Garry Hay

Scotland

B.date07/09/1977

Age34 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

20 Shiels73

Dean Shiels

Northern Ireland

B.date01/02/1985

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

4 Fowler

James Fowler

Scotland

B.date26/10/1980

Age31 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

8 Kelly

Liam Kelly

Scotland

B.date10/02/1990

Age21 years

H1m87

positionCentre Midfield

11 Harkins

Gary Harkins

Scotland

B.date02/01/1985

Age26 years

H1m88

positionPlaymaker

14 Heffernan

Paul Heffernan

Republic of Ireland

B.date29/12/1981

Age29 years

H1m78

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Cameron Bell		25	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	D	Danny Buijs	63	29	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	D	Manuel Pascali		30	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
88	D	Mohamadou Sissoko		23	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Rory McKeown		18	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Garry Hay	77	34	264	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Dean Shiels	73	26	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	James Fowler		31	297	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Liam Kelly		21	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Gary Harkins		26	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Paul Heffernan		29	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
25	D	Thomas Rogne	90+1	21	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Kelvin Wilson	50	26	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Mohamed Bangura	65	22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
22	M	Danny Racchi	8773	24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	James Dayton	63	23	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	M	Matthew Kennedy	77	17	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Joe Ledley

Danijel Majstorovic

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Danny Buijs

Zdenek Kroca

OUT

Mohamadou Sissoko

James Dayton

OUT

James Fowler

Alex Pursehouse

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Neil Lennon

Success rate in this team:

74 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

74 %

Lennon vs Kilmarnock

5 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on December 24, 2011

Lennon vs Shiels

3 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 24, 2011

Manager

Age

Match num

Kenny Shiels

Success rate in this team:

24 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Shiels vs Celtic Glasgow

0 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on December 24, 2011

Shiels vs Lennon

0 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on December 24, 2011

Referee

George Salmond

3 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Celtic Glasgow3 matches	General total	Kilmarnock5 matches	1 victory	2 draws	2 losses
2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Celtic Glasgow2 matches	Season total	Kilmarnock3 matches	1 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on February 07, 2016					Latest figure on April 28, 2012

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Key figures

It's the first time Danny Racchi scores 1 goal in Premiership

No Celtic Glasgow manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Neil Lennon has done less than 0.65 goals conceded per game in Premiership.

Georgios Samaras scored 6 goals vs Kilmarnock in his professional career

Read the next 15 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DCeltic Glasgow 0-0 Hibernian29/10/2011

VCeltic Glasgow 3-1 Rennes03/11/2011

VCeltic Glasgow 2-1 Dunfermline Athletic23/11/2011

VCeltic Glasgow 5-0 St. Mirren26/11/2011

LCeltic Glasgow 0-1 Atlético Madrid30/11/2011

VCeltic Glasgow 1-0 Heart of Midlothian10/12/2011

Overall

VCeltic Glasgow 5-0 St. Mirren26/11/2011

LCeltic Glasgow 0-1 Atlético Madrid30/11/2011

VDundee United 0-1 Celtic Glasgow04/12/2011

VCeltic Glasgow 1-0 Heart of Midlothian10/12/2011

DUdinese 1-1 Celtic Glasgow15/12/2011

VSt. Johnstone 0-2 Celtic Glasgow18/12/2011

Current form

Away

DAberdeen 2-2 Kilmarnock17/09/2011

LSt. Mirren 3-0 Kilmarnock24/09/2011

LGlasgow Rangers 2-0 Kilmarnock27/09/2011

DMotherwell 0-0 Kilmarnock22/10/2011

VHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Kilmarnock29/10/2011

DHibernian 1-1 Kilmarnock19/11/2011

Overall

VHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Kilmarnock29/10/2011

LKilmarnock 3-6 Inverness05/11/2011

DHibernian 1-1 Kilmarnock19/11/2011

VKilmarnock 1-0 Glasgow Rangers27/11/2011

VKilmarnock 2-0 Aberdeen03/12/2011

DKilmarnock 1-1 Dundee United17/12/2011

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	4
Drawless streak	5	1
Scoring streak	1	4
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	3	4
Winless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	2	7
Conceding streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

16	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	206
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	7

Results

19	Number of games (Competition total)	18
9	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
14	Victories (Competition total)	5
7	Victories (Home / Away)	1
2	Draws (Competition total)	8
1	Draws (Home / Away)	4
3	Losses (Competition total)	5
1	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

38	Goals scored (Competition total)	24
21	Goals scored (Home / Away)	6
14	Goals conceded (Competition total)	26
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	11
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.33
2.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.75
0.74	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.44
0.44	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.38

Betting aid

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

Bookings

16	Yellow cards (Competition total)	24
4	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	15
2	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Gary Hooper	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Paul Heffernan
Gary Hooper	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Dean Shiels
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Dean Shiels
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Dean Shiels
Gary Hooper	7 goals during the last 7 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 2 matches	James Dayton

Historical head to head

Home

105 matches

83 v

17 d

5 l

297 gf

75 ga

Away

112 matches

61 v

29 d

22 l

218 gf

126 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

2 v

0 d

0 l

6 gf

1 ga

Total

219 matches

146 v

46 d

27 l

521 gf

202 ga

Historical head to head

Home

112 matches

22 v

29 d

61 l

126 gf

218 ga

Away

105 matches

5 v

17 d

83 l

75 gf

297 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

0 v

0 d

2 l

1 gf

6 ga

Total

219 matches

27 v

46 d

146 l

202 gf

521 ga

Largest victory

Overall	9 - 1	August 13, 1938
Home	9 - 1	August 13, 1938

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	March 27, 1963
Away	2 - 0	December 10, 1955

Latest head to head

October 15, 2011 - Premier League 2011/2012

Kilmarnock

3 - 3

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

May 08, 2011 - Premier League 2010/2011

Kilmarnock

0 - 2

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

April 20, 2011 - Premier League 2010/2011

Kilmarnock

0 - 4

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

December 21, 2010 - Premier League 2010/2011

Celtic Glasgow

1 - 1

Kilmarnock logo Kilmarnock

September 19, 2010 - Premier League 2010/2011

Kilmarnock

1 - 2

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

Best historical scorers against Kilmarnock

Henrik Larsson	18 goals	1997 - 2004
Chris Sutton	10 goals	2001 - 2005
Shunsuke Nakamura	8 goals	2006 - 2008
Scott McDonald	7 goals	2007 - 2009
John Hartson	7 goals	2002 - 2006
Alan Thompson	5 goals	2000 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/08/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Celtic Glasgow

Colin Nish	4 goals	2004 - 2007
Daniele Invincibile	3 goals	2006 - 2009
Conor Sammon	2 goals	2010 - 2010
Steven Naismith	2 goals	2006 - 2006
Gary McDonald	1 goal	2004 - 2004
Craig Bryson	1 goal	2010 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/08/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Kilmarnock

Jackie McNamara	26 matches	1996 - 2005
Stilian Petrov	25 matches	1999 - 2006
Paul Lambert	23 matches	1997 - 2004
Henrik Larsson	23 matches	1997 - 2004
Neil Lennon	21 matches	2001 - 2007
Aiden McGeady	20 matches	2004 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/08/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Celtic Glasgow

James Fowler	32 matches	2001 - 2011
Garry Hay	25 matches	2001 - 2011
Daniele Invincibile	22 matches	2003 - 2010
Frazer Wright	18 matches	2006 - 2010
Jamie Hamill	15 matches	2007 - 2011
Craig Bryson	15 matches	2007 - 2011