FC Barcelona 3-1 Celtic: result and report

Champions League · Wednesday 11 December 2013

Result

FC Barcelona 3-1 Celtic

Champions League · Wednesday 11 December 2013, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-0

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FC Barcelona 3-1 Celtic: match report

FC Barcelona defeated Celtic 3-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday 11 December 2013. The half-time score was 3-0.

Eric Guérit opened the scoring in the 7th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Eric Guérit (7'), Pedro (39'), Neymar (44'), Neymar (48'), Neymar (58') and Tello (72'). Celtic scored through Georgios Samaras (88').

Discipline: FC Barcelona received 1 yellow card; Celtic received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game FC Barcelona were 10th on 13 points from 5 and Celtic 8th on 14 points from 11. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and Celtic in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 FC Barcelona wins, 3 draws and 1 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Eric GuéritFC Barcelona · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · PedroFC Barcelona · 2-0
  • 41'Yellow card · Sergi RobertoFC Barcelona
  • 42'Yellow card · Scott BrownCeltic
  • 44'Goal · NeymarFC Barcelona · 3-0
  • 48'Goal · NeymarFC Barcelona · 4-0
  • 58'Goal · NeymarFC Barcelona · 5-0
  • 69'Yellow card · A. MatthewsCeltic
  • 72'Goal · TelloFC Barcelona · 6-0
  • 88'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 6-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: FC Barcelona 5, draws 3, Celtic 1.

Team news

FC Barcelona line-up (4-3-3)

José Manuel Pinto, Martín Montoya, Gerard Piqué, Adriano, Sergi Roberto, Xavi, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Busquets, Pedro, Alexis Sánchez, Neymar

Celtic line-up (4-4-1-1)

Fraser Forster, Efe Eric Ambrose, Virgil van Dijk, Mikael Lustig, Adam Matthews, Nir Bitton, Scott Brown, Joe Ledley, Georgios Samaras, Derk Boerrigter, Teemu Pukki