St. Johnstone 1-3 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 3 December 2023

Result

St. Johnstone 1-3 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 3 December 2023, 12:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

St. Johnstone · Celtic · Premiership predictions

St. Johnstone 1-3 Celtic: match report

St. Johnstone lost to Celtic 1-3 in the Premiership on Sunday 3 December 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.

Diallang Jaiyesimi opened the scoring in the 40th minute. St. Johnstone's goal came from Diallang Jaiyesimi (40'). Celtic scored through Callum McGregor (67'), Matt O'Riley (79') and James Forrest (90+3').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 2 yellow cards; Celtic received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 11th on 11 points from 13 and Celtic 1st on 36 points from 14. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 10th with 35 points, and Celtic 1st with 93.

St. Johnstone lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Celtic in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Callum McGregor of Celtic (8.5), ahead of Alistair Johnston (8.1).

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Ryan McGowanSt. Johnstone
  • 40'Goal · Diallang JaiyesimiSt. Johnstone · 1-0
  • 67'Goal · Callum McGregorCeltic · 1-1
  • 79'Yellow card · Kyogo FuruhashiCeltic
  • 79'Goal · Matt O'RileyCeltic · 1-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Dimitar MitovSt. Johnstone
  • 90+3'Goal · James ForrestCeltic · 1-3

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Dimitar Mitov, James Brown, Ryan McGowan, Liam Gordon, Luke Robinson, M. Kucheriavyi, Daniel Phillips, Graham Carey, Dara Costelloe, Matthew Smith, Diallang Jaiyesimi

Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales, Greg Taylor, Matt O'Riley, Callum McGregor, David Turnbull, Hyun-jun Yang, Kyogo Furuhashi, Luis Palma