Celtic 3-1 Kilmarnock: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 7 October 2023

Result

Celtic 3-1 Kilmarnock

Premiership · Saturday 7 October 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Celtic · Kilmarnock · Premiership predictions

Celtic 3-1 Kilmarnock: match report

Celtic won against Kilmarnock 3-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 7 October 2023. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Reo Hatate opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Celtic's goals came from Reo Hatate (22'), Luis Palma (33') and Greg Taylor (82'). Kilmarnock scored through David Watson (72').

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

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 19 points from 7 and Kilmarnock 8th on 7 points from 7. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and Kilmarnock 4th with 56.

Celtic lined up in a 4-3-3 and Kilmarnock in a 5-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Reo Hatate of Celtic (8.5), ahead of Liam Scales (7.8).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Reo HatateCeltic · 1-0
  • 28'Yellow card · Lewis MayoKilmarnock
  • 33'Goal · Luis PalmaCeltic · 2-0
  • 68'Yellow card · Greg TaylorCeltic
  • 72'Goal · David WatsonKilmarnock · 2-1
  • 76'Yellow card · Liam ScalesCeltic
  • 76'Yellow card · Kyle VassellKilmarnock
  • 82'Goal · Greg TaylorCeltic · 3-1

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, Matt O'Riley, Callum McGregor, Reo Hatate, Daizen Maeda, Kyogo Furuhashi, Luis Palma

Kilmarnock line-up (5-4-1)

Will Dennis, Stuart Findlay, Joe Wright, Robbie Deas, Lewis Mayo, Danny Armstrong, David Shankland Watson, Brad Lyons, Corrie Ndaba, Matty Kennedy, K. Vassell