Hearts 1-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 9 May 2010

Result

Hearts 1-2 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 9 May 2010, 12:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Hearts 1-2 Celtic: match report

Hearts lost to Celtic 1-2 in the Premiership on Sunday 9 May 2010. The half-time score was 1-1.

Robbie Keane opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Hearts's goal came from Marius Zaliukas (36'). Celtic scored through Robbie Keane (23') and Zhi Zheng (61').

Discipline: Hearts received 2 yellow cards; Celtic received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 6th on 50 points from 37 and Celtic 1st on 76 points from 37. Hearts went on to finish that season 6th with 50 points, and Celtic 1st with 79.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Hearts win, 4 draws and 5 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Goal · Robbie KeaneCeltic · 0-1
  • 36'Goal · Marius ZaliukasHearts · 1-1
  • 50'Yellow card · Scott BrownCeltic
  • 59'Yellow card · Ryan StevensonHearts
  • 61'Goal · Zhi ZhengCeltic · 1-2
  • 68'Yellow card · David ObuaHearts
  • 80'Yellow card · Andreas HinkelCeltic
  • 90'Yellow card · Zhi ZhengCeltic

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hearts 1, draws 4, Celtic 5.

Team news

Hearts line-up

Jamie MacDonald, Eggert Gunnthor Jonsson, David Obua, Jason Thomson, Marius Zaliukas, Laryea Kingston, Ryan Stevenson, David Templeton, Calum Elliot, Ismaël Bouzid, Craig Thomson

Celtic line-up

Łukasz Załuska, Edson Braafheid, Josh Thompson, Zhi Zheng, Aiden McGeady, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Andreas Hinkel, R. Keane, Scott Brown, Mark Wilson, Darren O'Dea