Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 28 November 2007
Result
Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Champions League · Wednesday 28 November 2007, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk: match report
Celtic won against Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday 28 November 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.
Brandão opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Celtic's goals came from Jiri Jarosik (45') and M. Donati (90+2'). Shakhtar Donetsk scored through Brandão (4').
Discipline: Celtic received 3 yellow cards; Shakhtar Donetsk received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Celtic were 28th on 8 points from 6 and Shakhtar Donetsk 6th on 15 points from 8. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Celtic win, 0 draws and 2 for Shakhtar Donetsk.
Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-L-W-L-D and Shakhtar Donetsk's L-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Brandão
- 37'Yellow card · Brandão
- 43'Yellow card · Jiri Jarosik
- 45'Goal · Jiri Jarosik
- 56'Yellow card · Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
- 80'Yellow card · Gary Caldwell
- 90+2'Goal · M. Donati
Head-to-head
Team news
Celtic line-up (4-1-3-2)
Lee Naylor, Stephen McManus, Aiden McGeady, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Scott McDonald, Artur Boruc, G. Caldwell, Scott Brown, Paul Hartley, Jirí Jarosík, John Kennedy
Shakhtar Donetsk expected line-up
Razvan Rat, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, Darijo Srna, Fernandinho, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Francesco Matuzalem, Brandão, Ciprian Marica, Bogdan Shust, Jadson