Inverness CT 1 - 2 Celtic
League MatchSaturday, October 18th, 2008, 12:30 PM at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium
Attendance: 7,143
Referee: Iain Brines
Inverness CT | Celtic |
Goalscorers |
Garry Wood (69) |
Scott Brown (48) Glenn Loovens (65) |
Team Managers |
Craig Brewster | Gordon Strachan |
Starting Eleven |
Michael Fraser Richard Hastings Ross Tokely Grant Munro Phil McGuire Roy McBain Russell Duncan Ian Black Don Cowie Garry Wood Dougie Imrie |
Artur Boruc Gary Caldwell Stephen McManus Glenn Loovens Lee Naylor Aiden McGeady Scott Brown Marc Crosas Barry Robson Scott McDonald Shaun Maloney |
Substitutes |
Ryan Esson Jamie Duff Lionel Djebi-Zadi Barry Wilson Zander Sutherland Iain Vigurs Adam Rooney |
Mark Brown Mark Wilson Darren O Dea Paul Hartley Shunsuke Nakamura Patrick McCourt Cillian Sheridan |
Substitutions |
Jamie Duff for Phil McGuire (54) Adam Rooney for Ian Black (66) Barry Wilson for Roy McBain (75) |
Mark Wilson -> Gary Caldwell (64) Cillian Sheridan -> Scott McDonald (64) Paul Hartley -> Marc Crosas (90) |
Bookings |
Ian Black (28) Dougie Imrie (73) Ross Tokely (90) |
Marc Crosas (40) Scott Brown (45) Aiden McGeady (85) |
Red Cards |
None. | None. |
Appearances & Goals To Date
Michael Fraser (GK) |
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68 apps | - |
Phil McGuire |
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34 apps | 1 goal |
Richard Hastings |
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346 apps | 4 goals |
Ross Tokely |
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451 apps | 30 goals |
Grant Munro |
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250 apps | 6 goals |
Roy McBain |
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309 apps | 19 goals |
Ian Black |
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117 apps | 5 goals |
Russell Duncan |
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264 apps | 9 goals |
Don Cowie |
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52 apps | 11 goals |
Dougie Imrie |
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26 apps | 4 goals |
Garry Wood |
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7 apps | 2 goals |
Jamie Duff (sub) |
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8 apps | - |
Barry Wilson (sub) |
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349 apps | 83 goals |
Adam Rooney (sub) |
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10 apps | 1 goal |
Starting Lineup
Youngest Player: | Dougie Imrie (25 years 83 days) |
Oldest Player: | Grant Munro (2010 years 80 days) |
Average Player Age: | 28 years 280 days |
Domestic Players: | 10 (90.91 % of starting eleven) |
Matchday Squad
Youngest Player: | Iain Vigurs (20 years 169 days) |
Oldest Player: | Adam Rooney (2010 years 80 days) |
Average Player Age: | 28 years 247 days |
Domestic Players: | 17 (94.44 % of matchday squad) |
First Team Debuts
Milestones
Grant Munro played his 250th major competitive game for the Club. |
Tic Pip ICT:
League Leaders Celtic, travelled to Inverness today a couple of men down, but Caley Thistle weren't without their own injury problems as Barrowman was unavailable for selection.
The first 45 minutes ended without a goal, but it only took Celtic 3 minutes to break the deadlock in the second half when ICT seemed to fall asleep and allowed Brown to stick away an easy ball.
Loovens increased the lead to two on 65 and it looked like one way traffic until Wood managed to get a foot on a headed ball to put it out of the reach of Boruc and went on to look as if they were in the ascendancy.
It wasn't to be however, and the game finished 1-2 in favour of the visitors.
hislopsoffsideagain summed up:
Take away the first 20 minutes of the second half and we were the better team. Brew had us well organised from the off, and the lack of a target man and a route one ball meant Celtic had to play it through us, which they found pretty tough. Wood deserves a bit of flak for missing that glorious chance, but it was a world class stop by Boruc.
What does Brew put in the players' half time tea though? Yet again we were caught cold at the beginning of the second half. Imrie had a wonderful game otherwise, but he should have been tracking Naylor down the left. Our defence should have dealt better with the cross though, and the same goes for the second goal. It was a shame as we looked great in the closing stages after Wood grabbed one back, the substitutions were good ones (Black was walking a tightrope and wasn't having all that great a game) and we definitely warranted a draw.
C'est la vie. Imrie deserved his MotM, while I thought Wood did a good job with such little service. Munro was the pick of our defenders for me.
Match report written by hislopsoffsideagain/cto
None.
Pld | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | Pts | ||
1. | Celtic | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 22 |
2. | Rangers | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 19 |
3. | Kilmarnock | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 16 |
4. | Hibernian | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | -1 | 13 |
5. | Hearts | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 12 |
6. | Dundee Utd | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
7. | St. Mirren | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 11 |
8. | Inverness CT | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 10 |
9. | Motherwell | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | -3 | 10 |
10. | Aberdeen | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 10 |
11. | Hamilton Academical | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -7 | 9 |
12. | Falkirk | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 16 | -4 | 7 |