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Trivia
- Celtic 8pts behind as Rangers draw 1-1 with M'well away (M'well had an offside goal dubiously not given).
Review
Celtic cut the gap on Rangers to eight points as a 60-second goal blitz killed off the challenge of Jim Jefferies' Hearts.
Teams
Celtic
- 01Boruc
- 21Braafheid (Ki 77)
- 22Loovens (Rogne 62)
- 38Thompson
- 52Caddis
- 06N'Guemo
- 08Brown
- 46McGeady; yellow card
- 07Keane
- 10Fortune (Samaras 80)
- 15Kamara
Substitutes
- 24Zaluska,
- 25Rogne,
- 14McGinn,
- 17Crosas,
- 18Ki,
- 09Samaras,
- 19Rasmussen
Goals
- Loovens 49
- Fortune 50
Hearts
- 25Kello
- 02Kucharski
- 03Wallace
- 13Obua
- 26Zaliukas yellow card
- 04Jonsson yellow card
- 08Black yellow card
- 16Stevenson
- 23Stewart
- 39Mulrooney yellow card (Suso Santana 73)
- 14Nade (Glen 74)
Substitutes
- 01Balogh,
- 42Balatoni,
- 07Suso Santana,
- 44Smith,
- 15David Witteveen,
- 32Wallace,
- 36Glen
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Possession
- Celtic 69%
- Hearts 31%
Attempts on target
- Celtic 6
- Hearts 0
Attempts off target
- Celtic 6
- Hearts 0
Corners
- Celtic 5
- Hearts 5
Fouls
- Celtic 8
- Hearts 7
Articles
Loovens and Fortuné soothe Celtic's nerves in fevered arena
11 February 2010
Provided by: The Times
Celtic 2
Heart of Midlothian 0
This was a good night for Celtic, certainly in the ledger that is the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, if not always on the field of play. Tony Mowbray's new-fangled team exhibited their usual blips and gremlins but two goals early in the second half from Glenn Loovens and Marc-Antoine Fortuné were enough to see off Heart of Midlothian.
This, though, was just the half of it. Almost more important was the news from Fir Park, greeted with a jangling excitement around this stadium, that Rangers had stumbled to a 1-1 draw against Craig Brown's Motherwell. The night left Celtic eight points behind their arch-rivals — two better off than they had been at the start of the evening.
Given this turn of events, an edgy Celtic crowd could even forgive Robbie Keane for failing to score on his home debut, despite having at least three glaring chances to so do. If this had been Georgios Samaras or even Fortuné up to such waste, the crowd here would certainly have let them know about it. With Keane, though, and this implausible messiahstatus conferred on him at Celtic, there were but a few compassionate grumbles.
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