Hearts 1-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Wednesday 27 February 2019

Result

Hearts 1-2 Celtic

Premiership · Wednesday 27 February 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Hearts 1-2 Celtic: match report

Hearts lost to Celtic 1-2 in the Premiership on Wednesday 27 February 2019. The half-time score was 0-1.

James Forrest opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Hearts's goal came from Oliver Bozanic (56', penalty). Celtic scored through James Forrest (36') and Odsonne Edouard (90+2').

Discipline: Hearts received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Celtic received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 5th on 44 points from 27 and Celtic 1st on 63 points from 27. Hearts went on to finish that season 7th with 51 points, and Celtic 1st with 87.

Hearts lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Celtic in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Hearts wins, 0 draws and 8 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Peter HaringHearts
  • 33'Yellow card · Arnaud DjoumHearts
  • 35'Yellow card · Scott BrownCeltic
  • 36'Goal · James ForrestCeltic · 0-1
  • 43'Yellow card · S. NaismithHearts
  • 44'Red card · Jamie BrandonHearts
  • 56'Penalty goal · Oliver BozanicHearts · 1-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Jeremy ToljanCeltic
  • 90+2'Goal · Odsonne EdouardCeltic · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hearts 2, draws 0, Celtic 8.

Team news

Hearts line-up (4-2-3-1)

Zdeněk Zlámal, M. Godinho, John Souttar, Christophe Berra, Jamie Brandon, Peter Haring, Oliver Lee, Arnaud Djoum, Steven Naismith, Sean Clare, Uche Ikpeazu

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

Scott Bain, Jeremy Toljan, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera, Kristoffer Ajer, Kieran Tierney, Scott Brown, Ewan Henderson, James Forrest, Nir Bitton, Scott Sinclair, Oliver Burke