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Hearts 0-2 Celtic Glasgow - December 26, 2004 / Premier League 2004/2005

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Premier League 2004/2005 - Round 20

Tynecastle Park - Edinburgh - Scotland

December 26, 2004

16 163

Hearts

0 - 2

Celtic Glasgow

Aiden McGeady

68'

Stilian Petrov

logo Heart of Midlothian HM

9' - Goal Aiden McGeady

12' - Substitution Michael Stewartis substituted by Neil MacFarlane12

logo Heart of Midlothian HM

57' - Substitution Dennis Wynessis substituted by Joe Hamill57

68' - Goal Stilian Petrov

73' - Substitution Jamie McAllisteris substituted by Graham Weir73

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Hearts

0 - 2

Celtic Glasgow

Hearts Celtic Glasgow

Team line-ups

Hearts

Gordon

Craig Gordon

Scotland

B.date31/12/1982

Age21 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

McKenna

Kevin McKenna

Canada

B.date21/01/1980

Age24 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

Pressley

Steven Pressley

Scotland

B.date11/10/1973

Age31 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

McAllister73

Jamie McAllister

Scotland

B.date26/04/1978

Age26 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Maybury

Alan Maybury

Republic of Ireland

B.date08/08/1978

Age26 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Neilson

Robbie Neilson

Scotland

B.date19/06/1980

Age24 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Stewart12

Michael Stewart

Scotland

B.date26/02/1981

Age23 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Hartley

Paul Hartley

Scotland

B.date19/10/1976

Age28 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Stamp

Phil Stamp

England

B.date12/12/1975

Age29 years

H1m78

positionPlaymaker

Wyness57

Dennis Wyness

Scotland

B.date22/03/1977

Age27 years

H1m78

positionStriker

de Vries

Mark de Vries

Netherlands

B.date24/08/1975

Age29 years

H1m92

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Craig Gordon		21	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kevin McKenna		24	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steven Pressley		31	127	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jamie McAllister	73	26	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Maybury		26	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Robbie Neilson		24	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Stewart	12	23	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Hartley		28	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Phil Stamp		29	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dennis Wyness	57	27	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mark de Vries		29	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Celtic Glasgow

Douglas

Rab Douglas

Scotland

B.date24/04/1972

Age32 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Baldé

Dianbobo Baldé

Guinea

B.date05/10/1975

Age29 years

H1m92

positionSweeper

Laursen

Ulrik Laursen

Denmark

B.date28/02/1976

Age28 years

H1m90

positionLeft central defender

Varga

Stanislav Varga

Slovakia

B.date08/10/1972

Age32 years

H1m96

positionCentral defender

McNamara

Jackie McNamara

Scotland

B.date24/10/1973

Age31 years

H1m75

positionFull-back

Petrov68

Stilian Petrov

Bulgaria

B.date05/07/1979

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Lennon

Neil Lennon

Northern Ireland

B.date25/06/1971

Age33 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

Thompson

Alan Thompson

England

B.date22/12/1973

Age31 years

H1m83

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

McGeady9

Aiden McGeady

Republic of Ireland

B.date04/04/1986

Age18 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Sutton

Chris Sutton

England

B.date10/03/1973

Age31 years

H1m91

positionPlaymaker

Hartson

John Hartson

Wales

B.date05/04/1975

Age29 years

H1m86

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Rab Douglas		32	144	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dianbobo Baldé		29	163	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ulrik Laursen		28	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stanislav Varga		32	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jackie McNamara		31	300	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stilian Petrov	68	25	242	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Neil Lennon		33	200	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Thompson		31	185	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Aiden McGeady	9	18	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Chris Sutton		31	170	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Hartson		29	138	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

29 years

Average number of matches played for the team

154

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Neil MacFarlane	12	27	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Joe Hamill	57	20	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Graham Weir	73	20	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Kevin McKenna

Patrick Kisnorbo

OUT

Dennis Wyness

Graham Weir

OUT

Phil Stamp

Andy Webster

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Rab Douglas

Magnus Hedman

OUT

Ulrik Laursen

Joos Valgaeren

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

John Robertson

Success rate in this team:

36 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Robertson vs Celtic Glasgow

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 2004

Robertson vs O'Neill

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 2004

Manager

Age

Match num

Martin O'Neill

259

Success rate in this team:

75 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

O'Neill vs Hearts

18 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 2004

O'Neill vs Robertson

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 2004

Referee

Thomas Michael McCurry

11 victories	4 draws	9 losses	Hearts24 matches	General total	Celtic Glasgow48 matches	36 victories	8 draws	4 losses
2 victories	1 draw	1 loss	Hearts4 matches	Season total	Celtic Glasgow5 matches	3 victories	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 08, 2008					Latest figure on September 21, 2008

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Key figures

Celtic Glasgow keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a draw in Premiership running (since 04/12/2004).

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Martin O'Neill has reached 75% of wins .

Only back at the time of Jock Stein head of (09/03/1965-01/06/1978), you can see a manager go over Martin O'Neill with 2.52 goals scored per game in Premiership (2.59).

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VHeart of Midlothian 2-1 Hibernian24/10/2004

VHeart of Midlothian 3-0 Dundee FC30/10/2004

LHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Schalke 0404/11/2004

LHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Motherwell20/11/2004

VHeart of Midlothian 3-0 Dunfermline Athletic04/12/2004

LHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Ferencváros16/12/2004

Overall

LHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Motherwell20/11/2004

VFC Basel 1-2 Heart of Midlothian25/11/2004

LGlasgow Rangers 3-2 Heart of Midlothian28/11/2004

VHeart of Midlothian 3-0 Dunfermline Athletic04/12/2004

DInverness 1-1 Heart of Midlothian11/12/2004

LHeart of Midlothian 0-1 Ferencváros16/12/2004

Current form

Away

VMotherwell 2-3 Celtic Glasgow30/10/2004

LGlasgow Rangers 2-1 Celtic Glasgow10/11/2004

LGlasgow Rangers 2-0 Celtic Glasgow20/11/2004

DFC Barcelona 1-1 Celtic Glasgow24/11/2004

DDundee FC 2-2 Celtic Glasgow28/11/2004

VDunfermline Athletic 0-2 Celtic Glasgow12/12/2004

Overall

DFC Barcelona 1-1 Celtic Glasgow24/11/2004

DDundee FC 2-2 Celtic Glasgow28/11/2004

VCeltic Glasgow 2-1 Hibernian04/12/2004

DCeltic Glasgow 0-0 AC Milan07/12/2004

VDunfermline Athletic 0-2 Celtic Glasgow12/12/2004

VCeltic Glasgow 1-0 Dundee United18/12/2004

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	6	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	3	6
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	3	2
Invincibility streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	19
9	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
7	Victories (Competition total)	15
5	Victories (Home / Away)	6
6	Draws (Competition total)	2
3	Draws (Home / Away)	2
5	Losses (Competition total)	2
1	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

19	Goals scored (Competition total)	45
12	Goals scored (Home / Away)	23
14	Goals conceded (Competition total)	18
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	13
1.06	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.37
1.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2.56
0.78	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.95
0.22	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.44

Betting aid

6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	14
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
9	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
7	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
5	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
0-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	4-2 (2 times)

Bookings

37	Yellow cards (Competition total)	18
15	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	13
2	Red cards (Competition total)	2
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	2

Key players

Paul Hartley	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	15 goals	John Hartson
Paul Hartley	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	7 goals	John Hartson
Paul Hartley	4 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Alan Thompson
Steven Pressley	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Alan Thompson
Paul Hartley	5 goals during the last 7 matches	The fittest player	15 goals during the last 18 matches	John Hartson

Historical head to head

Home

136 matches

47 v

30 d

59 l

176 gf

219 ga

Away

135 matches

18 v

34 d

83 l

136 gf

281 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Total

272 matches

65 v

64 d

143 l

313 gf

502 ga

Historical head to head

Home

135 matches

83 v

34 d

18 l

281 gf

136 ga

Away

136 matches

59 v

30 d

47 l

219 gf

176 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

1 ga

Total

272 matches

143 v

64 d

65 l

502 gf

313 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	September 14, 1895
Home	4 - 0	February 16, 1895

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	April 01, 1981
Away	5 - 0	August 23, 1890

Latest head to head

October 16, 2004 - Premier League 2004/2005

Celtic Glasgow

3 - 0

Hearts

April 25, 2004 - Premier League 2003/2004

Hearts

1 - 1

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

April 03, 2004 - Premier League 2003/2004

Celtic Glasgow

2 - 2

Hearts

February 07, 2004 - Scottish FA Cup 2003/2004

Hearts

0 - 3

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

January 18, 2004 - Premier League 2003/2004

Hearts

0 - 1

Celtic Glasgow logo Celtic Glasgow

Best historical scorers against Celtic Glasgow

Mark de Vries	4 goals	2002 - 2004
Austin McCann	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Kevin McKenna	1 goal	2004 - 2004
Gary Wales	1 goal	2002 - 2002
Phil Stamp	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Ricardo Fuller	1 goal	2002 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/10/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Hearts

Henrik Larsson	23 goals	1997 - 2004
Lubomir Moravcik	6 goals	1999 - 2001
Stilian Petrov	5 goals	2000 - 2004
John Hartson	4 goals	2002 - 2004
Chris Sutton	4 goals	2000 - 2004
Mark Viduka	4 goals	1999 - 2000

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/10/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Celtic Glasgow

Steven Pressley	13 matches	2001 - 2004
Alan Maybury	12 matches	2001 - 2004
Kevin McKenna	10 matches	2001 - 2004
Scott Severin	10 matches	2001 - 2004
Andy Webster	10 matches	2001 - 2004
Phil Stamp	9 matches	2002 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Hearts

Henrik Larsson	26 matches	1997 - 2004
Jackie McNamara	24 matches	1996 - 2004
Paul Lambert	21 matches	1997 - 2004
Stilian Petrov	18 matches	1999 - 2004
Tommy Boyd	18 matches	1996 - 2002
Johan Mjällby	17 matches	1998 - 2004