St. Johnstone 0-4 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 4 November 2017

Result

St. Johnstone 0-4 Celtic

Premiership · Saturday 4 November 2017, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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St. Johnstone 0-4 Celtic: match report

St. Johnstone were beaten by Celtic 0-4 in the Premiership on Saturday 4 November 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Scott Sinclair opened the scoring in the 28th minute. St. Johnstone did not score. Celtic scored through Scott Sinclair (28'), Moussa Dembélé (72'), an own goal by S. Anderson (75') and Olivier Ntcham (89').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 2 yellow cards; Celtic received no yellow cards.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 6th on 15 points from 12 and Celtic 1st on 27 points from 11. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 8th with 46 points, and Celtic 1st with 82.

St. Johnstone 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 0 St. Johnstone wins, 1 draw and 0 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Goal · Scott SinclairCeltic · 0-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Paul PatonSt. Johnstone
  • 65'Yellow card · David WotherspoonSt. Johnstone
  • 72'Goal · Moussa DembéléCeltic · 0-2
  • 75'Own goal · S. AndersonCeltic · 0-3
  • 89'Goal · Olivier NtchamCeltic · 0-4

Head-to-head

1 meetings: St. Johnstone 0, draws 1, Celtic 0.

Team news

St. Johnstone line-up (4-2-3-1)

Zander Clark, Scott Tanser, Joe Shaughnessy, Steven Anderson, Paul Paton, Richard Foster, Blair Alston, David Wotherspoon, Aaron Comrie, Stefan Scougall, Steven MacLean

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

Craig Gordon, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera, Mikael Lustig, Kieran Tierney, Nir Bitton, Scott Brown, Scott Sinclair, Stuart Armstrong, Callum McGregor, James Forrest, Moussa Dembélé