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Trivia
- Celtic were drawn against Hibernian away in the third round of the Scottish Cup – potentially a very hard tie.
- On the Tuesday night Celtic played a quickly arranged Challenge match away to St Mirren managed by Alex Ferguson. The team was Barclay, McNamara, McAleer, Bone, MacDonald, Welsh, Johnstone, Davidson, Deans, Lynch, Lennox. The match gave both managers a chance to change their formations and experiment.
- On the Friday Jimmy Bone joined Arbroath for £15,000.
- In came Dixie Deans with Dalglish moving over one with Tommy Callaghan dropping to the bench to join Jimmy Johnstone. Jim Brogan was dropped and McCluskey went to left back and Roddie MacDonald brought in to partner Billy McNeill in the centre of defence. Connelly was still out with stitches in a leg cut.
- This game was the start of the slide. There would be no 10 in a row……………
Review
Celtic started well and could have been two up before Pettigrew scored for 'Well. With Celtic attacking the Graham-Pettigrew combination up front was a constant threat and Graham made it 2-0 before half time. Celtic pulled themselves together after the shock of going two behind and Harry Hood pulled one back before the whistle, having had an earlier goal ruled out for offside.
In the second half Celtic fought bravely and grabbed the initiative. Hood scored a second goal from a Kenny Dalglish cutback.
However Pettigrew scored again after running through a slack Celtic defence to give Motherwell the points and leaving Celtic yet again rueing missed chances and failing to produce goals when they had dominated play.
Teams
Celtic:
Hunter, McGrain, McNeill, Murray, MacDonald, McCluskey, Hood, Glavin, Deans (Johnstone 79), Dalglish, Wilson. Sub: Callaghan
Scorers: Hood 2 (28, 57)
Motherwell:
Rennie, W Watson, Wark, R Watson, McLaren, Goodwin, McIlwraith, Pettigrew, Graham, Taylor, Goldthorp (Millar). Sub: Dickson
Scorers: Pettigrew 2 (12, 76), Graham (21)
Referee: J R P Gordon (Newport-on-Tay)
Attendance: 26,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
