Hearts 0-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 2 November 2008

Result

Hearts 0-2 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 2 November 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

Hearts · Celtic · Premiership predictions

Hearts 0-2 Celtic: match report

Hearts were beaten by Celtic 0-2 in the Premiership on Sunday 2 November 2008. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Shaun Maloney opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Hearts did not score. Celtic scored through Shaun Maloney (7') and Gary Caldwell (20').

Discipline: Hearts received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Celtic received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Hearts were 8th on 14 points from 10 and Celtic 2nd on 25 points from 10. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 59 points, and Celtic 2nd with 82.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Hearts wins, 1 draw and 6 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Shaun MaloneyCeltic · 0-1
  • 20'Goal · Gary CaldwellCeltic · 0-2
  • 51'Red card · Marius ZaliukasHearts
  • 52'Missed penalty · P. HartleyCeltic
  • 64'Yellow card · P. HartleyCeltic

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hearts 3, draws 1, Celtic 6.

Team news

Celtic expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Stephen McManus, Lee Naylor, Aiden McGeady, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, G. Caldwell, Scott Brown, Paul Hartley, Jirí Jarosík, John Kennedy