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Trivia
- Celtic recover well from the disaster in Budapest. Stein acknowledged that they had met a superior team. done their best but been undone by a lethal early spell from the Hungarians.
- Macari was still out injured and McNeill too was out. In came Deans and Hood from the start with Bobby Lennox dropping to the bench. Jim Brogan was captain for the day.
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Report
A miserable wet day with a heavy muddy pitch. Celtic pitched in to Motherwell with Harry Hood and Kenny Dalglish getting two goals each.
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Teams
Motherwell:
McRae, Whiteford, Wark, Watson, McCallum, John Muir, Gray (Jim Muir), Goodwin, Lawson, McCabe, Campbell
Goals:
Celtic:
Williams, McGrain, Brogan, McCluskey, Connelly, Hay, Johnstone, Deans, Dalglish, Hood, Callaghan. Substitute: Lennox
Goals: Hood 2 (7, 43), Dalglish 2 (30, 55), McCallum (OG 69).
Referee: R D Henderson (Dundee)
Attendance: 12,439.
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
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Articles
Glasgow Herald Monday November 13 1972
Celtic work off European blues
By Willam Hunter
Motherwell 0, Celtic 5
Hungry from Budapest Celtic made a light snack of Motherwell. For several weeks their appetite for goals threatens to be voracious. Sent down from the European table they will be picking up greedily whatever crumbs of comfort are left to them in Scotland.
Celtic's pride has taken a hard dunt. They look like working of their disappointment with a vengeance on whoever is unlucky enough to cross their path at least to the end of the year.
Hopefully other teams will relish as well as Motherwell did the idea of being fattened up and cruelly carved to provide a Celtic feast. Only in the harsh arithmetic of the scoreline were Motherwell humiliated. They took their hiding with manly pride and dignity.
RESPECT
On both sides there was respect. Not one bad foul marred the fun. Motherwell stuck to their guns gamely. They kept trying to score. They held their heads up. Yet as early as the sixth minute when Celtic opened the scoring through Hood Motherwell’s doom was inevitable. But for some precariously heroic goalkeeping by MacRae the score might have run into double figures.
So it might be kindly not to dwell on Motherwell’s beating. Goodwin had a useful game, even if he appeared to be played too far forward for the exercise of all his wiles. Wark toiled heroically; Watson was tireless.
Celtic simply were superb. Jimmy Johnstone seems to have achieved a new maturity. He can seldom have played so selflessly. Connelly took Billy McNeill’s place with easy authority. McCluskey gave fair warning that he likes playing for the big team and will not willingly settle for less.
Celtic's big problem will start when Budapest becomes less rawly fresh in their minds. It could progressively become harder for them to keep their skills sharp with only local opposition to hone them on. If they fail to, only then, will the Motherwell’s of this world have a chance of living with Celtic. Hood and Dalglish helped themselves to a brace apiece and McCallum suffered an own goal.
Motherwell – MacRae; Whiteford and Wark; Watson, McCallum and John Muir; Campbell and Goodwin; Lawson, McCabe and Gray. Substitute—Jim Muir.
Celtic – Williams; McGrain and Brogan; McCluskey, Connelly and Hay; Johnstone and Deans; Dalglish, Hood and Callaghan. Substitute — Lennox.
Referee—R. D. Henderson (Dundee).
