Celtic 3-2 Aberdeen: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 27 September 2008

Result

Celtic 3-2 Aberdeen

Premiership · Saturday 27 September 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Celtic 3-2 Aberdeen: match report

Celtic beat Aberdeen 3-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 27 September 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Celtic's goals came from Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (14'), S. McDonald (77') and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (90'). Aberdeen scored through Charlie Mulgrew (58') and Charlie Mulgrew (65').

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Aberdeen received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 13 points from 6 and Aberdeen 8th on 7 points from 6. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 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 L-L-W-D-W.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Jan Vennegoor of HesselinkCeltic · 1-0
  • 58'Goal · Charlie MulgrewAberdeen · 1-1
  • 65'Goal · Charlie MulgrewAberdeen · 1-2
  • 77'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 2-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Artur BorucCeltic
  • 90'Goal · Jan Vennegoor of HesselinkCeltic · 3-2

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Celtic expected line-up (4-4-2)

Stephen McManus, Lee Naylor, Scott McDonald, Artur Boruc, G. Caldwell, Scott Brown, Jirí Jarosík, Massimo Donati, John Kennedy