Celtic 1-0 Aberdeen: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 19 April 2008

Result

Celtic 1-0 Aberdeen

Premiership · Saturday 19 April 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Celtic · Aberdeen · Premiership predictions

Celtic 1-0 Aberdeen: match report

Celtic won against Aberdeen 1-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 19 April 2008. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Georgios Samaras of Celtic in the 56th minute.

Discipline: Celtic received 2 yellow cards; Aberdeen received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 74 points from 32 and Aberdeen 6th on 44 points from 33. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Aberdeen 4th with 53.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 9 Celtic wins, 1 draw and 0 for Aberdeen.

Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-W-L-W-D and Aberdeen's W-W-D-W-L.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · Barry NicholsonAberdeen
  • 56'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 1-0
  • 61'Yellow card · M. DonatiCeltic
  • 72'Yellow card · Zander DiamondAberdeen
  • 90'Yellow card · Aiden McGeadyCeltic

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 9, draws 1, Aberdeen 0.

Team news

Celtic expected line-up (4-5-1)

Stephen McManus, Lee Naylor, Aiden McGeady, Massimo Donati, Scott McDonald, Artur Boruc, Jirí Jarosík, G. Caldwell, Paul Hartley, Scott Brown