Motherwell 0-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 16 October 2021

Result

Motherwell 0-2 Celtic

Premiership · Saturday 16 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Motherwell · Celtic · Premiership predictions

Motherwell 0-2 Celtic: match report

Motherwell were beaten by Celtic 0-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 16 October 2021. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Jota opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Motherwell did not score. Celtic scored through Jota (17') and David Turnbull (52').

Discipline: Motherwell received 1 yellow card; Celtic received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Motherwell were 4th on 14 points from 8 and Celtic 6th on 13 points from 8. Motherwell went on to finish that season 6th with 46 points, and Celtic 1st with 93.

Motherwell lined up in a 4-3-3 and Celtic in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to David Turnbull of Celtic (8.5), ahead of Jota (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Motherwell wins, 1 draw and 5 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · JotaCeltic · 0-1
  • 52'Goal · David TurnbullCeltic · 0-2
  • 80'Yellow card · Cameron Carter-VickersCeltic
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Bevis MugabiMotherwell

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Motherwell 0, draws 1, Celtic 5.

Team news

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Motherwell line-up (4-3-3)

Liam Kelly, Stephen O'Donnell, Bevis Mugabi, J. Ojala, N. McGinley, Liam Grimshaw, Callum Slattery, Sean Goss, Jordan Roberts, Tony Watt, Kaiyne Woolery

Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Anthony Ralston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Carl Starfelt, Boli Bolingoli, Callum McGregor, Tom Rogić, David Turnbull, Liel Abada, Kyogo Furuhashi, Jota