Celtic 4-0 Hamilton Academical: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 4 October 2008
Result
Celtic 4-0 Hamilton Academical
Premiership · Saturday 4 October 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Celtic 4-0 Hamilton Academical: match report
Celtic defeated Hamilton Academical 4-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 4 October 2008. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Shunsuke Nakamura opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Celtic's goals came from Shunsuke Nakamura (25'), Georgios Samaras (37'), S. McDonald (76') and Aiden McGeady (83'). Hamilton Academical did not score.
Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 16 points from 7 and Hamilton Academical 7th on 9 points from 7. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Hamilton Academical 9th with 41.
Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-W-W-L-W and Hamilton Academical's L-L-W-L-L.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Shunsuke Nakamura
- 37'Goal · Georgios Samaras
- 44'Yellow card · Gary Caldwell
- 67'Yellow card · Alex Neil
- 76'Goal · S. McDonald
- 79'Missed penalty · James McArthur
- 83'Goal · Aiden McGeady
Team news
Celtic expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Stephen McManus, Lee Naylor, Aiden McGeady, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, G. Caldwell, Scott Brown, Paul Hartley, Jirí Jarosík, John Kennedy