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Trivia
- Celtic had been due to face Aberdeen in the second leg of the League Cup but the game was postponed after snow to the 24th.
- Doyle was still out injured but Tommy Burns and George McCluskey were back in training and McCluskey had played a Reserve match.
- Hibs rumoured to be signing George Best but nothing is done in time. He signs for Hibs a matter of days later
- Roddy MacDonald declines a transfer to Dundee before this game.
- Celtic make a bid of £50,000 plus Jim Casey and Andy Lynch for Partick's striker Jim Melrose but Bertie Auld turns down the offer.
- Davie Provan makes his Scotland debut against Belguim in midweek.
- Aberdeen beat Rangers 1-0 at Ibrox.
- In the Reserve League on the same day Celtic lost 1-0 to Hibs at Easter Road. The Celtic team was Bonner, Fillipi, Lynch, Greenfield, Duffy, Casey, Buckley, Feeney, Mackie, Weir, Crainie Subs Watt and Douglas.
Review
Unusual little and large partnership of Lennox and Edvaldsson on top form. Hibs now a shadow of the great Turnbull side of the Stanton era.
Hibs are a side doomed for relegation and even George Best will do well to save them.
But it was really Davie Provan who was the star of the show with his expert running and crosiing he proved a real handful to the Hibs defense.
The first goal came after good work from Dom Sullivan who beat his man and fired in a cross which Edvaldsson headed on for Lennox to finish. Hibs hadf no answer to the pace and strength of the Celtic attack and midfield. Edvaldsson got the second before half time when he headed home another Sullivan cross.
The dominance continued in the second half and a third duly arrived when Edvaldsson followed up a parried shot from Lennox.
Teams
Celtic :
Latchford, Sneddon, McGrain, Aitken, McAdam, Conroy, Provan, Sullivan, Edvaldsson, MacLeod, Lennox.Subs: Davidson, McCluskey.
Scorers: Lennox (32), Edvaldsson 2 (43, 63)
Hibs:
McArthur, Brazil, McGlinchey, Rae, Paterson, McNamara, Callachan, MacLeod, Ward, Duncan, Higgins, Subs: J Brown, Hutchinson
Referee: T Kellock (East Kilbride)
Attendance: 25,000
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