FC Barcelona 1-0 Celtic: result and report
Champions League · Tuesday 4 March 2008
Result
FC Barcelona 1-0 Celtic
Champions League · Tuesday 4 March 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
FC Barcelona 1-0 Celtic: match report
FC Barcelona defeated Celtic 1-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday 4 March 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from Xavi of FC Barcelona in the 3rd minute.
Discipline: FC Barcelona received no yellow cards; Celtic received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 6th on 17 points from 7 and Celtic 26th on 11 points from 9. 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 2 FC Barcelona wins, 2 draws and 1 for Celtic.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read W-W-D-W-D and Celtic's L-L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Xavi
- 89'Yellow card · Scott Brown
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona expected line-up
Puyol, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Deco, Andrés Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Víctor Valdés, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Gianluca Zambrotta, Thiago Motta
Celtic line-up (4-5-1)
Lee Naylor, Stephen McManus, Massimo Donati, Aiden McGeady, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Artur Boruc, G. Caldwell, Scott Brown, Paul Hartley, Mark Wilson, Shunsuke Nakamura