2013-11-23: Celtic 3-1 Aberdeen, SP

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Trivia

  • Celtic remain top, Boerrigter scores his debut goal. Late late win for Celtic.
  • Celtic linked with Icelandic striker Fridjonsson and Chinese midfielder Zhang.
  • Campaigns begin to free two Celtic fans unfairly jailed in Amsterdam after the Ajax game, Andy Vance & Padraig Mullen. Both released on 22nd Nov.
  • Celtic fans (in particular TheCelticTrust) working hard to get to the bottom of it all after the police brutality and heavy handedness. Big charity bucket collection to help fund the accused's legal fees, much respect to all who dropped some money to help.
  • Trial held on 21 Nov 2013, not good, 1 let go, rest charged. Appeal on the go.
  • Ajax fined €25,000 by UEFA for the "Fenian Bastards" banner behind their goals against Celtic.
  • Celtic FC Foundation donate £10,000 to Philippines Appeal following a typhoon.
  • Icelander Holmbert Fridjonsson signs from Fram FC for £100k, joins officially on 1st Jan 2014.
  • Dario Dranchitti, big Celtic fan & US Indy car champion racer, forced to retire from motor sport due to injuries. Wish him the best.
  • Old London Road Primary school (at corner of Celtic Park) to be demolished on 13th Nov 2013. An old landmark to go, and to be replaced by "Avenue of Heroes".
  • Fraser Forster wins his first cap for England in friendly v Chile, lost two nil and received mixed reviews, but more respected analysts gave him fair positive reviews.
  • Celtic AGM completed, main talking point (bar Ajax) was Celtic board's rejection of Living Wage demands as the minimum wage for staff. Two sides to each story.
  • Also The Rangers NewCo reporting Celtic Chief Exec Lawell to the SFA. When asked about the Ibrox side at the Celtic AGM on NewCo being the same institution it was prior to liquidation, he replied humorously: "Rory Bremner [a popular TV satirist impersonator] can pretend to be Tony Blair [ex-PM]…" Huns have no sense of humour and are a bit precious.

Review[Untitled]

Albert Ein-jockstein of KDS

Ecstatic with us snatching the win in added time, although it should never have come to that. We are just devoid of creativity and the complete absence of a goal scorer is painfully obvious. As per usual, it's our defenders that perform the best, and get the majority of votes on the MOTM threads, which speaks volumes.

Although I'm a lot happier with the start we've made to the domestic season. 10 wins and 3 draws in 13 games, with us undefeated at this stage for the first time in 10 years. Also a massive GIRFUY to the Aberdeen supporting cretins in the away section, particularly in light of your paedophilia repertoire. Stay classy, sheep.

Now onto our season defining game on Tuesday.

Barcabhoy of KDS forum

Forster….at fault for the goal, made up for it with a fantastic save at 1-1

Fisher….promising

Efe…good

Virgil….good

Izzy…..good

Brown….ok,better in the middle we missed him there

Mulgrew….not good enough, a 5 minute spell aside

Ledley …….ditto

Commons….earned his win bonus

Sammi….good

Pukki…decent first half, awful 2nd half

Subs

Lustig…ok, not tested

Balde…did nothing of note

Boerrighter…encouraging, made a difference

Manager

Boerrighter aside, his subs were ineffective.

Teams

Celtic

  • 01 Forster
  • 41 Fisher (Lustig – 73' )
  • 03 Izaguirre
  • 21 Mulgrew
  • 04 Ambrose
  • 05 van Dijk
  • 08 Brown
  • 15 Commons
  • 09 Samaras Booked
  • 20 Pukki (Boerrigter – 64' )
  • 16 Ledley (Baldé – 80' )

Substitutes

  • 06 Biton
  • 11 Boerrigter
  • 17 Baldé
  • 18 Rogic
  • 23 Lustig
  • 24 Zaluska
  • 33 Kayal

Goals

  • Commons 36′, 90′ Boerrigter 90

Aberdeen

  • 01 Langfield
  • 02 Shaughnessy (Vernon – 92' )
  • 06 Reynolds
  • 22 Jack
  • 04 Anderson
  • 05 Considine
  • 11 Hayes (Wylde – 72' )
  • 27 Hector
  • 07 Zola (Magennis – 72' )
  • 16 Pawlett
  • 10 McGinn

Substitutes

  • 09 Vernon
  • 14 Smith
  • 17 Wylde
  • 18 Low
  • 20 Weaver
  • 21 Magennis
  • 35 Murray

Goals

  • McGinn 45

Ref: Craig Thomson
Att: 49,683

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MOTM

Stats

Celtic Aberdeen
Possession
39% 61%
90mins

Shots
21 8

On target
11 4

Corners
8 5

Fouls
5 1

Articles

Celtic leave it late as Kris Commons sparks 3-1 win over Aberdeen

Guardian report
Match facts

Celtic 3 Aberdeen 1

Scottish Premier League
Celtic

Kris Commons 36,
Derk Boerrigter 90 +0:58,
Kris Commons 90 +3:00

Aberdeen

Niall McGinn 45 +1:56

Press Association
The Observer, Saturday 23 November 2013 17.58 GMT

Celtic's Kris Commons scores the opening goal against Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership
Celtic's Kris Commons scores the opening goal against Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park. Photograph: Jeff Holmes/PA

Celtic struck twice in injury time, through the substitute Derk Boerrigter and Kris Commons, to beat Aberdeen 3-1 in an enthralling Scottish Premiership encounter at Parkhead.

Commons opened the scoring in the 35th minute before the former Hoops forward Niall McGinn levelled in first-half stoppage time. Georgios Samaras and McGinn both hit the woodwork as the sides swapped chances in the second half before Boerrigter, on for Teemu Pukki, prodded the ball over the line in the first minute of added time after Jamie Langfield had parried a Virgil van Dijk header. The Dons were taken by surprise again moments later when Commons slammed the ball in from close range to extend the leaders' unbeaten league run to 13 games.

Aberdeen have not won in the league at Parkhead since 2004 and they will perhaps feel aggrieved they did not leave Glasgow with a point, and the Hoops will have to improve their game when they face Milan in their crunch Champions League Group H clash at Celtic Park on Tuesday night.

With that match in mind, manager Neil Lennon drafted in Samaras and Commons as winger James Forrest dropped out with a hamstring strain, with midfielder Nir Biton starting on the bench.

The Dons showed one change with Joe Shaughnessy in for former Hoops midfielder Willo Flood, who is out with a hamstring injury.

The game started at break-neck speed with the home side looking to make a quick breakthrough. In the fifth minute, the Celtic left-back Emilio Izaguirre found Scott Brown with a cross to the back post but the Celtic and Scotland captain failed to make proper contact. The next source of danger to the Dons came from Hoops right-back Darnell Fisher, who curled a left-footed shot in from 20 yards forcing a decent save from Langfield.

Samaras had an effort blocked by Langfield before the keeper saved a Pukki header from close range after being set up by Izaguirre.

Commons' first goal, though, came when Langfield punched clear an Izaguirre cross only to see it fall straight to the former Derby County and Nottingham Forest player, who struck the ball into an empty net.

The goal looked to be enough to give the home side the interval lead but Aberdeen drew level in time added on by referee Craig Thomson. Jonny Hayes' corner from the left was headed back into the box by the Aberdeen defender Andrew Considine, with Zola beating Forster to flick the ball on and McGinn bundling it over the line from a yard out. It had been a mostly backs-to-the-wall first half for the Aberdeen but they trotted up the tunnel finding themselves back in the game.

There was a weak appeal for a Celtic penalty at the start of the second half when Joe Ledley went to ground under pressure from Michael Hector but referee Thomson played on.

The Wales midfielder took his frustration out on the ball moments later with a thunderous drive from 25 yards which had Langfield stretching to tip over the bar for a corner. The corner came to nothing but Celtic were clearly playing with more urgency – at times too much urgency – as they drove forward looking to restore their lead.

As the game opened up further, the Celtic midfielder Charlie Mulgrew sent Samaras through the middle of an exposed Aberdeen defence in the 61st minute but the Greece striker struck a powerful shot off the post, before Langfield made a fine save from Commons' angled-drive at the expense of another corner which came to nothing.

Celtic Park braced itself for a traditional late onslaught after Amido Baldé replaced Ledley in the 79th minute but it was the visitors who might have scored two minutes later when Shaughnessy headed a Greg Wylde corner over the bar when unmarked.

In the final stages Samaras sent a header wide from eight yards and McGinn had a decent scissors-kick saved by Forster before driving a shot off the post after a mistake by Izaguirre. But, following Mulgrew's corner in the first of three minutes of added time, Boerrigter knocked the ball over the line before Commons clinched the win from close range with almost the last kick of the game after another save from Langfield, this time from Samaras, landed at his feet.

BBC
Scotland at Celtic Park
Aberdeen were denied their first league point at Celtic Park in 17 attempts by two late goals from Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic.
Kris Commons opened for the hosts with a strike from the edge of the box.
Niall McGinn got the final touch after a melee in the box as the Dons levelled in first-half injury time.
McGinn struck the post in the second half before Celtic broke Aberdeen spirits in stoppage time with Derk Boerrigter and Commons firing home.

Neil Lennon's side remain five points clear of second-placed Inverness while Aberdeen slip from third to fifth.
Celtic captain Scott Brown threatened early on, arriving at the back post to scoop the ball over.
Aberdeen came into the game and Michael Hector roamed forward to shoot from 20 yards but his tame near-post effort was easily gathered by Fraser Forster.
After Darnell Fisher's strike had been safely caught by Dons goalkeeper Jamie Langfield, Celtic defender Efe Ambrose ventured forward to boost the hosts' attack.
The Nigeria international slalomed past numerous red shirts to the edge of the box and, off balance, he blasted his shot high into the stands, much to the dismay of the home crowd.
Georgios Samaras then forced another save from Langfield with a swerving shot but the breakthrough was not far away.
Langfield came for a cross but could only punch it as far as Commons, who picked his spot before calmly slotting the ball into the net.

McGinn (far left) netted against his former club
But just as it looked like Celtic would go in at half-time with the lead, Aberdeen equalised. A corner from Jonny Hayes caused chaos in the Celtic box and McGinn bundled over the line following Calvin Zola's header.
Joe Ledley's stinging drive looked destined for the top corner as Celtic tried to regain the lead in the second half but Langfield pulled off a fine save.
At the other end, uncertainty in the Celtic defence presented a chance for Hector but his shot went wide.
Samaras then drove through the Aberdeen defence and beat Langfield only to see his strike hit the post.
Langfield pulled off another stunning save, touching wide after Commons had gone clean through to fire in a shot.
The Dons also went looking for a winner with Joe Shaughnessy heading wide before Forster saved a scissor-kick shot from McGinn.
McGinn went even closer moments later, his shot beating Forster but coming back off post.
And then came further agony for Aberdeen.
Langfield saved from Virgil van Dijk following a Charlie Mulgrew corner but Boerrigter was on hand to lash the ball home.
That utterly deflated the Dons and Commons scored again from close range with virtually the last kick of the game.

ive Text Commentary
Full time

Full Time Match ends, Celtic 3, Aberdeen 1.
90:00 +3:59 Full time

Full Time Second Half ends, Celtic 3, Aberdeen 1.
90:00 +3:00 Goal scored

Goal! Goal! Celtic 3, Aberdeen 1. Kris Commons (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top left corner.
90:00 +1:19 Substitution

Substitution Substitution, Aberdeen. Scott Vernon replaces Joe Shaughnessy.
90:00 +0:58 Goal scored

Goal! Goal! Celtic 2, Aberdeen 1. Derk Boerrigter (Celtic) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
90:00 +0:45

Attempt saved. Virgil van Dijk (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
90:00

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Gregg Wylde.
88:13

Foul by Amido Baldé (Celtic).
88:13

Peter Pawlett (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
87:33

Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Efe Ambrose.
87:23

Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
84:01

Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
82:27

Attempt missed. Georgios Samaras (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
80:12

Attempt missed. Joe Shaughnessy (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
79:53

Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Mikael Lustig.
79:08 Substitution

Substitution Substitution, Celtic. Amido Baldé replaces Joe Ledley.
75:21

Attempt missed. Kris Commons (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
72:02 Substitution

Substitution Substitution, Celtic. Mikael Lustig replaces Darnell Fisher.
71:43 Substitution

Substitution Substitution, Aberdeen. Gregg Wylde replaces Jonathan Hayes.
71:32 Substitution

Substitution Substitution, Aberdeen. Josh Magennis replaces Calvin Zola-Makongo.
69:55

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Russell Anderson.
68:19

Attempt saved. Georgios Samaras (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
65:25

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Jamie Langfield.
64:51

Attempt saved. Kris Commons (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
63:40 Substitution

Substitution Substitution, Celtic. Derk Boerrigter replaces Teemu Pukki.
61:19

Georgios Samaras (Celtic) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
60:30

Attempt missed. Michael Hector (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
58:45

Attempt missed. Teemu Pukki (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
57:47

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Andrew Considine.
56:27

Attempt missed. Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
54:16

Attempt missed. Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
52:55

Foul by Efe Ambrose (Celtic).
52:55

Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
52:26

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Andrew Considine.
50:39

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Andrew Considine.
50:09

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Jamie Langfield.
49:54

Attempt saved. Joe Ledley (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
47:29

Delay over. They are ready to continue.
47:00

Delay in match Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) because of an injury.
45:00

Second Half begins Celtic 1, Aberdeen 1.
45:00 +3:09 Half time

Half Time First Half ends, Celtic 1, Aberdeen 1.
45:00 +1:56 Goal scored

Goal! Goal! Celtic 1, Aberdeen 1. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Calvin Zola-Makongo.
45:00 +1:00

Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Emilio Izaguirre.
44:00

Attempt missed. Russell Anderson (Aberdeen) header from very close range is too high.
43:14

Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
43:14

Jonathan Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
42:12 Booking

Booking Georgios Samaras (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
42:06

Foul by Georgios Samaras (Celtic).
42:06

Joe Shaughnessy (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
37:45

Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Joe Shaughnessy.
35:07 Goal scored

Goal! Goal! Celtic 1, Aberdeen 0. Kris Commons (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
28:18

Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Virgil van Dijk.
27:43

Foul by Darnell Fisher (Celtic).
27:43

Peter Pawlett (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
26:39

Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
24:36

Attempt missed. Kris Commons (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
23:41

Attempt saved. Teemu Pukki (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
20:56

Attempt saved. Georgios Samaras (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
17:59

Attempt missed. Efe Ambrose (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
16:11

Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Darnell Fisher.
13:41

Attempt missed. Darnell Fisher (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
10:21

Attempt saved. Darnell Fisher (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
8:16

Attempt saved. Michael Hector (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
4:11

Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
3:51

Foul by Calvin Zola-Makongo (Aberdeen).
3:51

Darnell Fisher (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
0:00

First Half begins.
0:00

Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

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