Celtic 3-2 Motherwell: result and report

Celtic 3-2 Motherwell

Premiership · Sunday 5 October 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Celtic defeated Motherwell 3-2 in the Premiership on Sunday 5 October 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Kelechi Iheanacho opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Celtic's goals came from Kelechi Iheanacho (28', penalty), Benjamin Nygren (69') and Daizen Maeda (90+2'). Motherwell scored through Apostolos Stamatelopoulos (40') and Apostolos Stamatelopoulos (56', penalty).

Discipline: Celtic received 2 yellow cards; Motherwell received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 14 points from 6 and Motherwell 6th on 8 points from 6. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 82 points, and Motherwell 4th with 61.

Celtic lined up in a 4-3-3 and Motherwell in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Apostolos Stamatelopoulos of Motherwell (8.1), ahead of Benjamin Nygren (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Celtic wins, 1 draw and 0 for Motherwell.

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