| Match Pictures | Matches: 1975 – 1976 | 1975-76 Pictures |
Trivia
- Ex Ranger Alec Willoughby and West Brom’s Mick Martin and Paddy Mulligan guest for Harps.
- Large contingent of Celtic fans travel from Belfast and Derry.
- Hood despite nursing a severely bruised right arm sustained in the Dundalk game comes on as a sub in the second half as well as Ritchie, Burns and Callaghan.
- Edvaldsson flew out after the game to captain Iceland against the Russia. He would return afterwards to Celtic Park to rejoin the squad for the game against Derby County.
Review
Celtic lined up in a 5-2-3 formation which was more like 4-3-4 with McNamara, McCluskey and Glavin in midfield, Edvaldsson and MacDonald in central defense with McGrain and Lynch as full backs.
Finn Harps presented a much stronger challenge to Celtic than had Dundalk in the previous game with the Harps controlling the pace of the game and it was only in the final stages of the game that Celtic managed to push the game forward as they wanted it. Ritchie, on as sub for Paul Wilson produced the best chance of the game cutting in from the left and sending in a powerful shot against the post.Before that Lennox had a good chance to put Celtic ahead in the first half but headed wide. Edvaldsson should have scored in the second when he was one-on-one with the keeper. Peter Latchford was impressive in goal and was called upon several times to keep the clean sheet.
Teams
Finn Harps:
Murray, McDowell, Hutton, T O’Docherty, Sheridan, Mulligan, Smith, Bradley, Carlyle, Martin, Willoughby. Subs: Harper Ferry D O’Docherty Logan McGrannaghan
Celtic:
Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, Glavin, MacDonald, McCluskey, McNamara (Hood), Dalglish (Burns), Wilson (Ritchie), Edvaldsson, Lennox (Callaghan). Subs: Hunter
Referee: J Carpenter (Dublin)
Attendance:- 7,500.
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
