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Trivia
- Both Tommy Burns and Johnny Doyle were recovered from their ailments and included on the bench;
- Tommy Burns rated his goal in this game as the best in his career.
- Celtic remain second in the table behind Dundee Utd levl on points with Rangers. Both Glasgow teams have 5 games in hand over league leaders Dundee Utd and the bookmakers make them favourites to pip the Dundonians.
- Jim Watt became the new Light Weight champion of the world
Review
Following a hard fought but clear win againstr St Mirren at the weekend, Celtic are now on a roll and demolish relegation threatened Hearts.
The most important aspect was the quality of the Celtic goals. For the first McCluskey went on a strong run down the right, McAdam layed the ball off to MacLeod who scored with a vicious shot. The second came when Lynch fooled the Hearts defence by laying the ball across the area for Conroy to run on to it and hammer in a shot from the edge of the area. The third was the best when Lynch floated the ball to the back post for Davidson to head the ball back to the on rushing Burns to score with a perfect volley.
Hearts had four men booked and Fraser sent off just before the end.
Teams
Hearts:
Allan, Kidd, Brown, Tierney, Liddell, Craig, Gibson (Paterson), Fraser, Robertson, Busby, Prentice. Subs: Black
Celtic:
Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, Aitken, Edvaldsson, MacLeod, Provan (Burns), Conroy, McAdam (Doyle), Davidson, G McCluskey
Scorers: MacLeod (11), Conroy (61), Burns (76)
Referee: I D M Foote (Glasgow)
Attendance: 11,000
(The Herald report below clearly states that Johnny Doyle replaced McAdam for the second half)
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
