2016-04-05: Dundee 0-0 Celtic, SP

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Trivia

• Midweek game, which will mean now that Celtic & Aberdeen are now level on games played.
• Celtic have agreed a pay-off for expensive flop Derk Boerrigter, the Dutch winger who has not featured in the first team for 20 months. The club is relieved and the bulk of the support happy to see the back of him, he will rank as one of the poorest ever signings by Celtic.
• One paper saying Liverpool lining up a £10 million bid for Tierney.
• British doctor claims he doped 150 sports stars including footballers, Tour de France cyclists, boxing champ.
• Some later reports claims he’s a charlatan. John Collins on Patrick Roberts: “I don’t like comparing him to the best player in the world, which in my opinion is Messi. But you can see where people get the resemblances. He is left-footed. He likes to take people on and if he ends up half as good as Messi then he has done well. That has got to be his target, to try to emulate what Lionel Messi does week-in, week-out, which is score goals, create chances. He is one of those players who gets you on the edge of your seat.” T
• TheRangers won their game on the same night and have got their promotion to the top tier. The media are going **** a hoop about this whilst the rest of us just groan.
  

Review

(bm hair of KDS)
Frustrating as eff watching that – let down by some who've been good this season – Griffiths might as well have been in the stand – every touch was wrong from him – don't want to single him out but this just shows its him or no one – that's the problem

How GMS stayed on is a mystery – brown was only mildly less shampoo than Saturday but he's no full back – Bitton was lazy as eff too – at times I thought – ok scrappy goal – take the points – but in front of goal we were stinking

This team needs put down – clear out about 60% of them and start again

(cat of KDS)
The usual suspects let us down on a weekly basis.

The management team are not capable of motivating the players, certain players do not contribute what they used to.

Other younger players are not being given a look in, for whatever reason.

Last night we were toothless, against Hearts whilst we deserved to win they outplayed us at times, against Kilmarnock it took a wonder goal to pull us out of a hole.

RD brings on CKR who looks overweight and unfit, not exactly inspiring or what we were told to expect from his Celtic team. Earlier in his reign was Commons not singled out re his fitness and excluded from the team.

The board need to do a lot of thinking in the next few days and not only re this current season. The experiments have to end with both management and playing staff. We need a management team in place whose criteria is to build over a given period of time. We need to stop selling our best players on an almost annual basis and build a team.

I keep hearing how this model of selling your best works at certain continental clubs, and that's true, but only if you have a conveyor belt ready to replace them, unfortunately we do not.

In my opinion an interim / new manager needs to be appointed asap. I do not believe for a second that this will cause an disarray in the camp and affect our chances of the double.

On the contrary I believe it will enhance our chances as this current malaise is a joke.

Teams

Dundee
1Bain
4Konrad
16Etxabeguren
21O'Dea
30Kerr
18McGowan
7Stewart
17Ross
3HoltBooked at 85mins
15HemmingsSubstituted for Wighton at 45'minutes
9LoySubstituted for Harkins at 62'minutes

Substitutes
6Meggatt
12Mitchell
22Rodríguez Pérez Reverte
27Curran
29Harkins
33Wighton
51Waddell

Celtic
1Gordon
23LustigSubstituted for Kazim-Richards at 64'minutes
20Boyata
28SviatchenkoSubstituted for Mulgrew at 60'minutes
63Tierney
8Brown
25JohansenBooked at 72mins
27Roberts
6Bitton
16Mackay-StevenSubstituted for Armstrong at 88'minutes
9Griffiths

Substitutes
13Kazim-Richards
14Armstrong
15Commons
21Mulgrew
38Fasan
42McGregor
49Forrest

Referee:Kevin Clancy
Attendance:9,566

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• Result Thread
• Winner –

Stats

Dundee v Celtic
Possession Home 39% Away 61%
Shots Home 9 Away 16
Shots on Target Home 5 Away 4
Corners Home 5 Away 10
Fouls Home 9 Away 10

Articles

Dundee 0 – 0 Celtic: League leaders held at Dens
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/dundee-0-0-celtic-league-leaders-held-at-dens-1-4091743

By
ALAN PATTULLO

Published: 21:43 Tuesday 05 April 2016

Dundee succeeded in putting a slight dent in Celtic’s championship hopes while at the same time helping their own top-six ambitions. For the second successive time between teams so willing to attack, there were no goals to report.
But there were plenty of goalmouth incidents. Quite how neither side scored is a mystery, but a no less enjoyable one for that. Since scoring six times without replay in an embarrassingly one-sided contest at Parkhead in September, Celtic have failed to strike so much as once in 180 minutes against Dundee.
The stalemate might not have serious consequences for Celtic’s title bid – they are now five points ahead of second placed Aberdeen with six games left – but it was of huge potential importance to Dundee, who had to avoid defeat to stay above Partick Thistle, victors over Dundee United.
But the Dens side will perhaps rue failing to take the opportunity to secure a first home win over Celtic since 1988. Indeed, both teams lamented being unable to gain all three points, although neither can have too many complaints about the scoreline.
Much hinged on the rescheduled fixture, which perhaps explained the cagey opening half. However, this did not explain a second-half that switched thrillingly from end to end, with Dundee hitting a post through Rory Loy. Celtic, for their part, were frustrated by Nick Ross, who did the job of a post when preventing Mikael Lustig’s header from crossing the line.
Leigh Griffiths cut a particularly unhappy figure at the end having now gone three league games, plus an hour for Scotland, without a goal. He missed a glorious opening after 12 minutes having latched on to a through ball that Dundee defender Julen Etxabeguren allowed to slip through. However, the striker was foiled by returning Dundee goalkeeper Scott Bain.
Patrick Roberts, a pivotal performer in Celtic’s weekend victory over Hearts, also blasted over from a good position while Stefan Johansen saw a shot on the turn deflected on to a post shortly before half-time.
But it was not all Celtic and Dundee had their own glimpses of goal. A Ross shot from 12 yards was beaten away by Craig Gordon, with no Dundee player able to capitalise on the rebound. If any player – or fan – felt slightly discombobulated, then they had probably read the match programme, where Dundee manager Paul Hartley was merrily hoping everyone was going to going to have a happy Hogmanay.
But this was the consequence of Dundee cheekily selling the same programme from when the fixture was originally scheduled to be played in late December.
Dundee could also draw succour from a recent goalless draw at Parkhead, when several of Dundee’s main players were rested from the starting XI. This allowed 18 year-old Craig Wighton a chance to play and the striker came on again at half-time to replace Kane Hemmings, Dundee’s top goalscorer.
The striker had carried a knock into the game and his departure was a blow to the hosts. But Wighton so very nearly made a quick impression. Gordon was quick off his line to snuff out the danger after Wighton latched on to a pass into the box after good work on the edge of the penalty area by Dundee.
Roberts, another young player with plenty of potential, was a menace at the other end, with one of his wriggling runs brilliantly stopped by a Paul McGowan tackle. After Celtic’s dominance in the first half, it was now more end-to-end. Dundee cursed their luck when McGowan’s volley was saved by Gordon. Again they could not capitalise on the rebound. Loy was only able to hit the post with the rebound.
Celtic came even closer at the other end when a succession of corners put Dundee under tremendous pressure, with Ross using his midriff to block Lustig’s header on the line. Gary Harkins had just replaced Loy and was relieved to avoid being seen as bringing his team ill-fortune. Celtic too made a change, Colin Kazim Richards replacing Lustig.
It was clear Celtic were changing tack slightly in their bid to score the all-important goal but still Dundee held out. Indeed, they continued to threaten, with Wighton so nearly put clean through by McGowan’s through ball.
No-one will convince Kazim Richards he wasn’t held in the box by Darren O’Dea at the end as Celtic upped the ante. But it seemed a fair result.
Referee: K Clancy
Attendance: 9,566
DUNDEE: Bain; Kerr, Konrad, O’Dea, Etxabeguren; Holt; Ross, McGowan; Stewart, Loy (Harkins 60), Hemmings (Wighton 45). Subs not used: Meggatt, Mitchell, Arturo, Curran, Waddell.
CELTIC: Gordon, Lustig (Kazim Richards 61), Boyata, Sviatchenko (Mulgrew 59), Tierney; Mackay-Steven (Armstrong 89), Brown, Bitton, Johansen; Roberts, Griffiths. Subs not used: Commons, Fasan,
McGregor, Forrest.
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BBC
By Scott Davie
BBC Scotland at Dens Park
5 April 2016
From the section Football

Nick Ross and Paul McGowan clash
Dundee and Celtic contested a tempestuous, entertaining clash
Dundee held Celtic to a goalless draw in a tumultuous Dens Park clash, with the league leaders moving five points clear of second-placed Aberdeen.
Both teams struck the woodwork, with Stefan Johansen and Rory Loy hitting the same post either side of half-time.
The visitors had two second-half headers cleared off the line, while Scott Bain denied Leigh Griffiths twice amid a fine defensive display.

Dundee remain sixth in the table, level with Partick Thistle who sit seventh.
This was only the second time in 23 matches that the defending champions had failed to score in a game and Dundee can take pride from the fact both were against them.
Dundee successfully frustrated them in a 0-0 draw at Celtic Park last month and the tactics Paul Hartley employed that night certainly did a similar job in the first half here.
Griffiths was largely isolated up front as the home defence starved the Premiership's top scorer of supply from wingers Partick Roberts and Gary Mackay-Steven.
Roberts did trick his way into space on seven minutes but blazed his shot over the bar while Scott Bain got out quickly to block from Griffiths when he did break free.
At the other end Celtic's main moments of anxiety once again came when defending set pieces and Nick Ross nearly capitalised only for Craig Gordon to parry his shot.
The goalkeeper needed Dedryck Boyata to tidy things up on that occasion but the Scotland international made a clean save to prevent Loy converting a Kane Hemmings flick-on.
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Celtic did start to exert a more sustained period of pressure on Dundee goal near the interval but Gary Mackay-Steven slashed a chance well wide of the target.
Then two minutes from the interval Johansen's shot took a wicked deflection as it looped its way beyond Bain but the ball bounced to safety off the keeper's left hand post.
Celtic enjoyed Barcelona levels of possession in that first half but the statistics show they actually had fewer shots on target than the home side during the first 45 minutes.
Craig Wighton replaced Dundee's top scorer Hemmings at the interval and the winger, who tormented Celtic in last month's draw, nearly scored with his first run. It took a crucial save by Gordon to deny the youngster.
The change certainly didn't have a negative effect on Dundee and they were only the width of the post away from taking the lead on 57 minutes as they pinned Celtic back for a spell.
Paul McGowan once again brought out the best in Gordon with a shot from 20 yards and Loy could only turn the loose ball against the frame of the goal from close range.
That sparked a positive response from Deila's side and successive corners from Roberts around the hour mark saw first Mikael Lustig then substitute Charlie Mulgrew see headers cleared off the line.
It was end-to-end stuff in a frantic finale as both sides chased a win but Dundee denied Celtic a clear-cut chance while always looking a threat on the counterattack.
Match ends, Dundee 0, Celtic 0.

Full Time

90'+4'
Second Half ends, Dundee 0, Celtic 0.

90'+1'
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Charlie Mulgrew.

Substitution

88'
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Gary Mackay-Steven.

88'
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).

88'
Paul McGowan (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

87'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Kevin Holt.

86'
Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.

Booking

85'
Kevin Holt (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

85'
Foul by Kevin Holt (Dundee).

85'
Patrick Roberts (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.

80'
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Kieran Tierney.

78'
Foul by Greg Stewart (Dundee).

78'
Patrick Roberts (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

77'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Julen Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia.

76'
Foul by Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic).

76'
Thomas Konrad (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

75'
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.

73'
Attempt missed. Colin Kazim-Richards (Celtic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.

72'
Foul by Paul McGowan (Dundee).

72'
Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.

Booking

72'
Stefan Johansen (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

72'
Nick Ross (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

72'
Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic).

71'
Attempt blocked. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.

69'
Attempt saved. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.

69'
Attempt blocked. Greg Stewart (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.

68'
Greg Stewart (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing.

68'
Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic).

66'
Attempt saved. Greg Stewart (Dundee) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.

Substitution

64'
Substitution, Celtic. Colin Kazim-Richards replaces Mikael Lustig.

62'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Cameron Kerr.

62'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Paul McGowan.

Substitution

62'
Substitution, Dundee. Gary Harkins replaces Rory Loy because of an injury.

61'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Paul McGowan.

Substitution

60'
Substitution, Celtic. Charlie Mulgrew replaces Erik Sviatchenko because of an injury.

58'
Attempt missed. Greg Stewart (Dundee) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right.

58'
Attempt saved. Paul McGowan (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.

56'
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).

56'
Rory Loy (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

55'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Paul McGowan.

54'
Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

54'
Foul by Greg Stewart (Dundee).

52'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Kevin Holt.

52'
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.

51'
Nir Bitton (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

51'
Foul by Thomas Konrad (Dundee).

50'
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.

49'
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Craig Gordon.

49'
Attempt saved. Craig Wighton (Dundee) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.

48'
Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic).

48'
Paul McGowan (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

47'
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.

Second Half


Second Half begins Dundee 0, Celtic 0.

Substitution

45'
Substitution, Dundee. Craig Wighton replaces Kane Hemmings.

Half Time

45'+1'
First Half ends, Dundee 0, Celtic 0.

44'
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

44'
Foul by Greg Stewart (Dundee).

43'
Stefan Johansen (Celtic) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.

39'
Attempt missed. Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.

38'
Attempt missed. Rory Loy (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.

37'
Attempt missed. Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.

37'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Paul McGowan.

37'
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.

35'
Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic).

35'
Paul McGowan (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing.

34'
Attempt saved. Rory Loy (Dundee) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.

28'
Foul by Cameron Kerr (Dundee).

28'
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

26'
Attempt missed. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.

24'
Attempt missed. Kane Hemmings (Dundee) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.

22'
Foul by Rory Loy (Dundee).

22'
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

21'
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).

21'
Thomas Konrad (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

21'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Cameron Kerr.

20'
Attempt saved. Nick Ross (Dundee) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.

19'
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).

19'
Greg Stewart (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

18'
Attempt missed. Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right.

18'
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Darren O'Dea.

12'
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.

7'
Attempt missed. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.

6'
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Gary Mackay-Steven.

5'
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Dedryck Boyata.

4'
Kane Hemmings (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

4'
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).

2'
Foul by Julen Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia (Dundee).

2'
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Kick Off


First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.