Celtic 1-0 Partick Thistle: result and report

Premiership · Tuesday 20 December 2016

Result

Celtic 1-0 Partick Thistle

Premiership · Tuesday 20 December 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Celtic 1-0 Partick Thistle: match report

Celtic defeated Partick Thistle 1-0 in the Premiership on Tuesday 20 December 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Scott Sinclair of Celtic in the 16th minute.

Discipline: Celtic received 3 yellow cards; Partick Thistle received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 43 points from 16 and Partick Thistle 12th on 15 points from 17. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 103 points, and Partick Thistle 7th with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Celtic win, 0 draws and 0 for Partick Thistle.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Scott SinclairCeltic · 1-0
  • 16'Yellow card · Callum BoothPartick Thistle
  • 42'Yellow card · Jozo SimunovicCeltic
  • 65'Yellow card · S. WelshPartick Thistle
  • 68'Yellow card · Emilio IzaguirreCeltic
  • 68'Yellow card · E. IzaguirreCeltic

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Celtic 1, draws 0, Partick Thistle 0.

Team news

Celtic line-up

Craig Gordon, Jozo Simunovic, Cristian Gamboa, Mikael Lustig, Scott Brown, Scott Sinclair, Patrick Roberts, Callum McGregor, Liam Henderson, Moussa Dembélé, Calvin Miller

Partick Thistle line-up

Tomas Cerny, Liam Lindsay, Daniel Devine, Ziggy Gordon, Callum Booth, Sean Welsh, Abdul Osman, David Amoo, Steven Lawless, Ryan Edwards, Adebayo Azeez