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Trivia
- Celtic fail to get the point needed to clinch the title. They will now have to wait three days before travelling to Easter Road.
- Roddy MacDonald again succumbed to the leg injury and dropped out. Edvaldsson dropped back to midfield with Kenny Dalglish fit again. Johnny Doyle dropped to the bench and Tommy Burns started.
- The unfortunate Andy Lynch has the rare occurence of scoring two own goals.
- Ex Celt Ally Hunter keeps goal for Motherwell and Vic Davidson plays up front.
- Highlights were shown on BBC that night.
- Clydebank sealed the Division One championship and would be promoted next season.
Review
On a cold spring night Celtic start nervously and become more desperate as the game goes on. Lynch is tremendously unfortunate with his two own goals. A rare outing where Celtic lose and fail to score.
Celtic missed a barrowload of chances in the first half and then fell behind to an Ian Kennedy goal just before half time.
Celtic came out in the second half and fought solidly but failed to find the net. And then in the final five minutes a shot from Kennedy which was going past the post cannoned off Lynch's knee to be deflected past Baines, and two minutes later he also deflected a similar shot from Wark past Baines.
Teams
Motherwell:
Hunter, Watson, Wark, McLaren, McAdam, Stevens, J Miller, Pettigrew, Graham, Davidson, Kennedy. Subs: O'Rourke Marinello
Scorers: Kennedy (42), Lynch 2 (OG 85, OG 87)
Celtic:
Baines, McGrain, Lynch, Stanton, Edvaldsson, Aitken, Conn, Glavin, Craig, Dalglish, Burns . Subs: Doyle Wilson
Referee: G B Smith (Edinburgh)
Attendance: 13,820
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
