Celtic 3-0 Hearts: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 16 February 2008

Result

Celtic 3-0 Hearts

Premiership · Saturday 16 February 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Celtic · Hearts · Premiership predictions

Celtic 3-0 Hearts: match report

Celtic beat Hearts 3-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 16 February 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Celtic's goals came from Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (14'), S. McDonald (51') and Andreas Hinkel (76'). Hearts did not score.

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 52 points from 23 and Hearts 9th on 30 points from 25. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Hearts 8th with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Celtic wins, 2 draws and 3 for Hearts.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Jan Vennegoor of HesselinkCeltic · 1-0
  • 51'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 2-0
  • 76'Goal · Andreas HinkelCeltic · 3-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 5, draws 2, Hearts 3.

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