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Scottish Cup final
- Celtic win the double of Cup and League!
- Doumbe’s first goal for Celtic, and the unlikely hero of the day.
- Neil Lennon’s last game for Celtic.
- First cup winners medals for Boruc, Perrier-Doumbe, McManus, Naylor,Nakamura, Caldwell, Venegoor of Hesselink, Miller,Riordan and Bjarnsson.
- Cup final was day after 40th anniversary of Celtic winning the European Cup.
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Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe grabbed an 84th-minute winner to clinch a 34th Scottish Cup – and the Double – for Celtic against Dunfermline at Hampden
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Celtic team:-
Boruc, Perrier Doumbe, McManus, Pressley, Naylor, Nakamura, Lennon (Caldwell 66), Hartley, McGeady, Miller (Beattie 56), Vennegoor of Hesselink.
Subs Not Used:- McGovern, Riordan, Bjarnason.
Booked:- McGeady, Perrier Doumbe, Pressley.
Goal:- Perrier Doumbe 85.
Dunfermline team:-
De Vries, Shields, Wilson, Bamba, Muirhead, Scott Morrison (Crawford 72), Young, McCunnie, Hammill, Burchill (Williamson 89), McIntyre (Hamilton 80).
Subs Not Used:- McKenzie, McGuire.
Booked:- Burchill.
Att: 49,600
Ref: K Clark
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Possession
| 59% | 41% |
Shots on target
| 3 | 0 |
Shots off target
| 4 | 4 |
Corners
| 7 | 3 |
Fouls
| 17 | 16 |
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Perrier Doumbe celebrates his winner with Paul Hartley
Perrier Doumbe celebrates his winner with Paul Hartley
Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe grabbed an 84th-minute winner to clinch a 34th Scottish Cup – and the Double – for Celtic against Dunfermline at Hampden.
The Cameroonian knocked home from close range from Craig Beattie’s pass to finally end the Pars resistance, as the SPL champions toiled for long periods.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Kenny Miller both went close for Celtic in a mainly stuffy game.
Dunfermline worked hard but failed to test Celtic goalkeeper Arthur Boruc.
Interview: Celtic boss Gordon Strachan
Interview: Celtic captain Neil Lennon
Interview: Dunfermline manager Stephen Kenny
Neil Lennon was captaining Celtic for the last time before leaving the club after almost seven years service.
And team-mate Steven Pressley was looking to create a record by winning the cup with three different clubs after having picked up medals with Rangers and Hearts.
Celtic manager Gordon Strachan sprung a selection surprise when Perrier Doumbe was preferred to Gary Caldwell at right-back, while Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink was partnered in attack by Kenny Miller.
Dunfermline – who lost their recent battle to remain in the SPL – came to Glasgow minus four regulars.
Tom McManus and Stephen Glass were both cup-tied, Gary Mason was suspended and midfielder Jim O’Brien, on loan from Celtic, was barred from playing.
Former Celt Mark Burchill was chosen by Pars manager Stephen Kenny to feature alongside Jim McIntyre – who scored the semi-final winner against Hibernian – in attack.
The Fifers belied their relegated status and started positively, going close in the third minute when Burchill screwed a left-footed shot from 12 yards across goal and wide following a link-up with McIntyre.
The busy Burchill had a penalty claim minutes later, falling down following a challenge from Paul Hartley, but referee Kenny Clark ignored his plea.
Celtic’s Shunsuke Nakamura takes on Scott Morrison
Celtic’s Shunsuke Nakamura takes on Scott Morrison
There was an early nervousness from Celtic, although they did have the ball in the net after 21 minutes when midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura had the ball in the net but Hartley had fouled Pars keeper Dorus de Vries.
The Glasgow side should have taken the lead on the half-hour following an intelligent build up.
Miller turned delightfully on the right and his precise cross was met by Vennegoor of Hesselink, but the former PSV Eindhoven man somehow sent his diving header past the post.
it was the closest either team came to breaking the deadlock in the first-half, and Celtic were having problems finding a way past a well-organised Pars defence.
Dunfermline’s Scott Morrison did try his luck from distance as half-time approached, but his left-foot shot skidded a yard past the target.
Certainly, the Pars went into the break fully realising they had a chance to win against the subdued Celts.
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But Celtic began the second half in positive fashion and, in the 51st minute when Aiden McGeady supplied a cross from the left for the incoming Miller, a goal looked certain.
However, the Scotland striker’s header from six yards was too close to De Vries and Dunfermline survived.
Miller paid the price when he was replaced four minutes later by Craig Beattie, as Strachan opted to freshen up the attack.
After 61 minutes, Celtic full-back Lee Naylor brought the best from De Vries, firing in a right-foot shot which the Dutchman did well to gather.
Lennon was surprisingly replaced by Caldwell, and the Hoops captain appeared extremely dejected by Strachan’s decision, with the contest remaining open.
Kenny sent on Stevie Crawford for Morrison, hoping the veteran forward could lift his side, with chances scarce at either end.
Substitute Beattie almost put Celtic ahead in the 79th minute, but he was unlucky to stroke an angled effort inches wide, after charging beyond the Pars rearguard from Nakamura’s raking pass down the right.
The East End Park outfit defended well, but found themselves tiring towards the end.
And they failed to prevent Perrier Doumbe from emerging as an unlikely cup winning hero, when the Cameroon international picked up a return pass from Beattie in the danger zone to stab the ball home with just six minutes remaining.
It was enough to seal Dunfermline’s fate, as Celtic added the cup to their SPL title.
Celtic: Boruc, Perrier Doumbe, McManus, Pressley, Naylor, Nakamura, Lennon (Caldwell 66), Hartley, McGeady, Miller (Beattie 56), Vennegoor of Hesselink. Subs Not Used: McGovern, Riordan, Bjarnason.
Booked: McGeady, Perrier Doumbe, Pressley.
Goal: Perrier Doumbe 85.
Dunfermline: De Vries, Shields, Wilson, Bamba, Muirhead, Scott Morrison (Crawford 72), Young, McCunnie, Hammill, Burchill (Williamson 89), McIntyre (Hamilton 80). Subs Not Used: McKenzie, McGuire.
Booked: Burchill.
Att: 49,600
Ref: K Clark
Strachan faces double dilemma after doughty Dunfermline show up Celtic shortfall
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/28/match.celtic
Ewan Murray at Hampden Park
@mrewanmurray
Mon 28 May 2007 01.11 BST
Celtic may have done the double for the 14th time, but that cannot disguise the slump in form that was evident again on Saturday when they struggled to beat the relegated Dunfermline to add the Scottish Cup to the Premierleague title they secured weeks ago.
This performance will give their manager, Gordon Strachan, plenty to ponder during the summer. For although he could claim that his two most creative players, Shunsuke Nakamura and Aiden McGeady, endured a rare bad day, others such as Paul Hartley, Steven Pressley and Kenny Miller have toiled for longer than Strachan is entitled to expect.
Miller, who has had a miserable season, limped off with a hamstring injury and is now almost certain to miss Scotland’s games against Austria and the Faroe Islands. The striker’s demeanour suggested he will be glad of the break.
And then there is Thomas Gravesen. Reportedly the highest paid player in Scottish football, the midfielder’s most significant role here was posing for photographs with children before kick-off. Gravesen’s place among the substitutes had been taken by the 20-year-old Icelander Teddy Bjarnason, and surely now Celtic will attempt to dispense with him.
Fans sing about playing “the Glasgow Celtic way” but for long spells here they lacked any trace of style. In the event a substitution that drew howls of derision from the Celtic fans played a pivotal role in turning matters in the champions’ favour. Neil Lennon, playing his last match after 6½ years in Glasgow’s East End, was replaced by Gary Caldwell, a central defender who may yet step permanently into Lennon’s midfield role.
Strachan was vindicated as his team displayed a good deal more zip in the closing 25 minutes. Lennon returned from the dressing room to warmly embrace his fellow red-head at full-time. “When you admire someone so much, you are actually friends with him, as I am, and you know how much the game means to him, then it wasn’t easy,” said Strachan.
An untidy final was fittingly won by a scrappy goal five minutes from time. Jean-Joel Perrier-Doumbé, the defender on loan from Rennes, prodded in from close range after being played in by Craig Beattie.
It would be churlish, though, not to recognise Dunfermline’s sterling efforts. The Fife side, marshalled superbly from defence by Souleymane Bamba, were belligerent but in truth seldom offered a serious threat after Mark Burchill wasted a glorious chance inside four minutes.
Man of the match: Souleymane Bamba (Dunfermline Athletic)
Kenny’s gallant men floored by the Doumbe Double
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/27/match.celtic
Patrick Glenn
Sun 27 May 2007 21.35 BST
Celtic’s record thirty-fourth Scottish Cup triumph might have fulfilled widespread expectations, but it was not achieved without the need to overcome a Dunfermline side full of resolve and no little threat of their own.
That Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe, playing only the fifth game of his loan period from Rennes, should secure the old trophy with a late and improbable winner was perhaps appropriate to a final about which a number of preconceptions were demonstrably misplaced.
The apparently irreconcilable disparity between the contestants – one the champions pursuing the Double, the other the dropouts of the Premier League – was always likely to prove illusory. The double-figures price the bookmakers had put on Dunfermline seemed preposterous when set beside the sides’ comparative form in the weeks before the event. The outsiders showed for long periods that their rating by the layers was an insult.
Stephen Kenny, the losers’ manager, said: ‘The club hasn’t won a trophy in just under 40 years so to play as well as we did and lose was disappointing. I am proud of the players because everyone played well. We ran out of legs, but we didn’t run out of heart.’
Ever willing to deny space to the Parkhead side in midfield and attack and staging counter-thrusts of their own based on accurate passing and intelligent movement in forward areas, Dunfermline’s best work more often than not made them equals rather than victims.
Celtic’s most serious problem since the start of the season, an alarming reduction in their scoring rate since last year, seemed unlikely to be solved in a single match – especially a cup final in which their opponents would offer such formidable resistance – but they should have scored at least once, and probably twice, during a first half in which few authentic opportunities were created.
When Kenny Miller exhibited quick feet and an agile turn on the right before delivering a precisely judged cross to Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, the big striker was left with only his fellow Dutchman, Dorus de Vries, to beat. Falling forward to make the header, he glanced the ball wide of the goalkeeper’s right-hand post.
Miller’s contribution to that move was the more surprising because of the clumsiness of touch he had demonstrated earlier, when a cute flick by Vennegoor of Hesselink sent him clear. His first touch sent the ball towards De Vries, who appeared suitably grateful.
Dunfermline’s most convertible chance had been contrived even earlier. Scott Morrison’s long pass from the left-back position found Jim McIntyre in the Celtic half and, as Mark Burchill made the run into the inside-left channel, the pass was perfectly weighted. Burchill, however, pulled his left-foot shot wide. Morrison later gave a demonstration of his dead-ball control with a 30-yard free-kick that dipped just over the crossbar.
Miller’s removal early in the second half was the result of an injury suffered while squandering the most inviting chance to date. Aiden McGeady had been kept relatively quiet by the attentive Greg Shields on Dunfermline’s right, but suddenly darted past two opponents in the penalty area, drifted left and sent a shoulder-high cross straight into the path of Miller. Moving forward, the striker put his forehead on the ball and sent it straight to De Vries. He fell at the feet of the goalkeeper and was forced to leave the field five minutes later, leading to Craig Beattie’s appearance. Neil Lennon’s final match for Celtic then ended when he was replaced by Gary Caldwell.
Celtic by then had become more assertive, if not more consistently threatening. There was an unmistakable change for the better in their sense of urgency and a quickening of the tempo. Until Beattie’s miss 10 minutes from the end, however, there remained a general lack of incisiveness about their work.
Until Doumbe’s late contribution, the left-back Lee Naylor had been as dangerous as any when he played the ball forward to Vennegoor of Hesselink and bolted towards the area to take the return. Having created the chance, Naylor hit his volley too close to De Vries.
Whatever else the Celtic support were expecting, it was not a goal for Doumbe. Gordon Strachan said: ‘In the first half we had a few players below par and Joe was definitely one of them. But the longer the second half went, those players got better, some of the them a lot better, and it made a big difference.’
Doumbe supplied Beattie on the right and moved towards the corner of the area in support of the expected cross. Beattie, however, tried a shot. It was deflected and Doumbe simply stretched out his right foot and stabbed the ball towards the goal. It seemed to pass De Vries and cross the line almost in slow motion.
Celtic 1-0 Dunfermline Athletic
Originally Published / Saturday, 26 May 2007
Neil Lennon lifted the Scottish Cup in his final act as Celtic captain
Neil Lennon lifted the Scottish Cup in his final act as Celtic captain
Jean-Joel Perrier-Doumbe scored his first goal for Celtic to clinch the Tennent’s Scottish Cup and complete a domestic double for the Scottish champions in a 1-0 win over Dunfermline Athletic.
The final at Hampden had remained deadlocked until the 84th minute as relegated Dunfermline fought a brave battle to end a 39-year wait for the trophy, while Celtic produced another uninspiring display.
But it was defender Doumbe who proved the difference between the sides, his late winner allowing Neil Lennon to lift the Scottish Cup in his final act as Celtic captain.
The first real chance of the match fell to Dunfermline when Scott Muirhead punted a long ball up to Jim McIntyre, who set up Mark Burchill for the shot.
The effort was struck well enough but flashed across the face of goal before falling inches wide of the target.
The Pars then claimed a penalty when Burchill went to ground under pressure from Paul Hartley but referee Kenny Clark was unimpressed.
At the other end, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink released Kenny Miller into the box but goalkeeper Dorus De Vries was first to the ball and managed to smother before the Celtic striker could pull the trigger.
Shunsuke Nakamura had the ball in the net for Celtic with 21 minutes gone but the referee had already awarded a foul for a Hartley challenge on De Vries.
Dunfermline then had the chance to pile on the pressure when Burchill was bundled over by Lee Naylor only for Scott Morrison’s free-kick from 35 yards to dip just over the crossbar.
However, the best chance of the game so far came on the half-hour mark when Miller’s cross was met by a diving header from Vennegoor of Hesselink in front of an empty goal, but he managed to nod wide of the upright.
Two minutes later, Aiden McGeady was booked for a late tackle on Greg Shields. Burchill and Doumbe were then added to the referee’s book shortly after for clashing on the touchline.
Morrison could have snatched the lead for the Pars on the half-time whistle – but rifled agonisingly wide of the post.
The second half began as dramatically as the first half had ended, Miller throwing himself in front of a McGeady cross from the left only to send his point-blank diving header straight into the arms of De Vries.
It proved to be Miller’s last involvement in the game and he was replaced by Craig Beattie ten minutes after the restart – seconds after Steven Pressley had added himself to the bookings with a cynical challenge on Adam Hammill.
Naylor could have been the man to spark this final into life when he exchanged a one-two with Vennegoor of Hesselink before unleashing a powerful drive at goal, but he was denied his moment of glory by the Pars keeper who blocked with his legs.
Then came a surprise move from the Celtic camp, when outgoing skipper Lennon was swapped for Gary Caldwell with more than 20 minutes to go.
His departure sparked a chorus of ‘Only one Neil Lennon’ from the green and white half of Hampden – but the player had already disappeared down the tunnel by then.
Dunfermline made a change of their own, Morrison making way for Stevie Crawford. McIntyre was then replaced by Jim Hamilton.
Celtic may have had the best of the chances but their finishing had let them down and Beattie joined that list when his shot whistled across the goalmouth and harmlessly wide.
When the breakthrough finally came after 84 minutes, the identity of the Celtic goal scorer could hardly have been more surprising.
It was Doumbe who began the move, spraying a pass out to Beattie on the right flank, who duly returned the ball as the on-loan Rennes defender raced into the box before stabbing home the winner.