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Trivia
- A Monday evening game with a 7:30pm kick off at Firhill. The teams had just played each other in the League at Celtic Park on the Saturday producing a thrilling 5-3 result in Celtic's favour.
- Both sides named unchanged teams for the tie. McNeill was still out for Celtic nursing a knee injury
- The game was played in the rain and though rained upon and sodden, the supporters stayed to the end.
- Thistle's Ian Cowan and Celtic's Jimmy Johnstone were both ordered off. Tommy Gemmell took over for the injured Frank Haffey in goal with Kennedy dropping back to left back.
- Both teams were involved in Europe this season – Celtic in the European Cup-Winners Cup and Thistle in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Review
Thistle scored first when a McParland cross was met by Hainey. His header hit the bar and Duffy got the rebound home before Haffey could get to it. On 15 minutes Joe Hogan pulled a muscle for Thistle and he went to outside right with McParland switching to right backwhere he did well to curb Hughes' runs. On 28 minutes Haffey advanced to clear a ball and in doing so twisted an ankle. It was clear that he could not continue but after attention he played gingerly in goal till half time.
The teams came out for the second half with Tommy Gemmell in goal and Jim Kennedy going to left back, Clark to left half and Murdoch to right half. With 20 minutes left Johnstone and Cowan got into a rammy on the touch line and both were ordered off putting Celtic down to 9 men. Both of them trooped off arm-in-arm! Divers chased a high ball which looked to be going out but he managed to head it back into the penalty area, chased it and fired in a shot which went in off of Harvey's legs. For the remainder of the game both teams went at it hammer and tongs. Niven made a superb save to deny Chalmers.
Teams
Partick Thistle:
Niven; Hogan, Tinney; Close, Harvey, Cunningham; Cowan, Yard, Hainey, Duffy, McParland.
Scorers: Duffy (7)
Celtic:
Haffey; Young, Gemmell; Clark, Cushley, Kennedy; Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, Divers, Hughes.
Scorers:Divers (74)
Referee: T Wharton (Glasgow)
Attendance: 15,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
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