Celtic 1
Dundee Utd 0
League (Premier Division)
Celtic |
1 - 0 |
Dundee Utd |
 |
League (Premier Division) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| Murdo MacLeod (pen.) (38) | None. |
| Team Managers | |
| Billy McNeill |
Jim McLean |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1. Peter Latchford 2. Alan Sneddon 3. Danny McGrain 4. Roy Aitken 5. Roddie MacDonald 6. Tom McAdam 7. Davie Provan 8. Dom Sullivan 9. Bobby Lennox 10. Murdo MacLeod 11. Johnny Doyle |
Hamish McAlpine .1 Derek Stark .2 Frank Kopel .3 George Fleming .4 Paul Hegarty .5 Dave Narey .6 Eamonn Bannon .7 Paul Sturrock .8 Willie Pettigrew .9 John Holt .10 Billy Kirkwood .11 |
| Bench | |
|
12. George McCluskey 14. Johannes Edvaldsson |
Davie Dodds .12 Iain Phillip .14 |
| Substitutions | |
| Johannes Edvaldsson for Johnny Doyle (68) |
Davie Dodds for Billy Kirkwood (61) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Frank Kopel (54) Eamonn Bannon (84) |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
K Stewart (Glasgow) (Referee) |
Match Report
This match has no report.
Squad Statistics (as at January 5th, 1980)
| 1979-80 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Hamish McAlpine (GK) | 31 |
|
25 | - | 392 | 3 |
| Dave Narey | 23 |
|
33 | - | 266 | 19 |
| Paul Hegarty | 25 |
|
24 | 2 | 222 | 39 |
| Frank Kopel | 30 |
|
33 | 4 | 326 | 13 |
| John Holt | 23 |
|
9 | 1 | 95 | 7 |
| Derek Stark | 21 |
|
32 | 1 | 65 | 2 |
| Eamonn Bannon | 21 |
|
13 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| George Fleming | 31 |
|
29 | 2 | 329 | 37 |
| Billy Kirkwood | 21 |
|
27 | 4 | 110 | 27 |
| Willie Pettigrew | 26 |
|
31 | 13 | 31 | 13 |
| Paul Sturrock | 23 |
|
33 | 10 | 202 | 53 |
| Davie Dodds (sub) | 21 |
|
20 | 3 | 66 | 17 |
League Table (as at January 5th, 1980)
| Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Celtic | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | +22 | 28 |
| 2. | Morton | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | +13 | 26 |
| 3. | Rangers | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | +1 | 20 |
| 4. | St Mirren | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 20 |
| 5. | Partick Th | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 18 |
| 6. | Aberdeen | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | +8 | 17 |
| 7. | United | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | +4 | 17 |
| 8. | Kilmarnock | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 17 |
| 9. | Dundee | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | -12 | 16 |
| 10. | Hibernian | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | -19 | 9 |
| League results since United's last match |
|---|
| 1st January 1980 |
|---|
| St Mirren | 2-2 | Morton |
| 5th January 1980 |
|---|
| Celtic | 1-0 | Dundee Utd |
| Dundee | 1-1 | Partick Th |
| Kilmarnock | 3-1 | Hibernian |
| Morton | 1-0 | Aberdeen |
| Rangers | 1-2 | St Mirren |