Celtic 3-1 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 16 March 2024

Result

Celtic 3-1 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Saturday 16 March 2024, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Celtic · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Celtic 3-1 St. Johnstone: match report

Celtic defeated St. Johnstone 3-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 16 March 2024. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Kyogo Furuhashi opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Celtic's goals came from Kyogo Furuhashi (40'), Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn (46') and James Forrest (68'). St. Johnstone scored through C. Smith (81').

Discipline: Celtic received no yellow cards; St. Johnstone received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 68 points from 29 and St. Johnstone 9th on 28 points from 29. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and St. Johnstone 10th with 35.

Celtic lined up in a 4-3-3 and St. Johnstone in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Nicolas Kühn of Celtic (9.4), ahead of Luke Robinson (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Celtic win, 1 draw and 0 for St. Johnstone.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Kyogo FuruhashiCeltic · 1-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Adama SidibehSt. Johnstone
  • 46'Goal · Nicolas-Gerrit KühnCeltic · 2-0
  • 68'Goal · James ForrestCeltic · 3-0
  • 81'Goal · C. SmithSt. Johnstone · 3-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Ryan McGowanSt. Johnstone
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Daniel PhillipsSt. Johnstone

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Celtic 1, draws 1, St. Johnstone 0.

Team news

Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Stephen Welsh, Greg Taylor, Matt O'Riley, Tomoki Iwata, Paulo Bernardo, Nicolas Kühn, Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda

St. Johnstone line-up (3-5-2)

Dimitar Mitov, Ryan McGowan, Liam Gordon, Andy Considine, David Keltjens, Sven Sprangler, Daniel Phillips, Matthew Smith, Luke Robinson, Graham Carey, Adama Sidibeh