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Monday, 20th Feb 2012With only five Premier League wins at Celtic Park, Dunfermline are always up against it at Parkhead
Dunfermline travel to Celtic Park to take on the league leaders in a match brought forward as a consequence of Celtic winning through to the Scottish Communities Cup Final at Hampden on Sunday 18th March. This SPL match was scheduled for the Saturday of that weekend thus the Pars will play thir 28th SPL match of the season on Wednesday night.
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Premier League v Celtic (Away) | |||||
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Pld |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
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28 |
5 |
0 |
23 |
19 |
79 |
With only five Premier League wins at Celtic Park, Dunfermline are always up against it at Parkhead but they have won twice in the last seven visits. The Pars last win at Celtic Park was in November 2005 when a Greg Ross goal secured the Pars first away win of the 2005-06 season`s SPL campaign. The 1-0 win inflicted the first SPL defeat for Celtic and this followed a 2-1 Pars win in Glasgow back in May 2004.
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Milestones Celtic (Away) | |||
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Last League Victory # |
1 - 0 |
SPL | |
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Last League Defeat # |
1 - 2 |
SPL | |
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Best League Victory * |
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2 - 0 |
Prem Lg |
Worst League Defeat* |
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0 - 9 |
Div One* |
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* Pre Reconstruction | |||
Dunfermline have lost ten of their last twelve SPL games against Celtic. The other two are the afore mentioned wins.
Last Twelve League Matches v Celtic | |||
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Date |
H/A |
F-A |
Scorers |
| 02/01/12 | H | 0-3 | [0-1] Stokes, [0-2] Wanyama, [0-3] Mulgrew |
| 23/11/11 | A | 1-2 | [0-1] Hooper, [0-2] Forrest, [1-2] Barrowman |
| 03/03/07 | A | 1-2 | [0-1] Miller, [0-2] Vennegoor of Hesselink, [1-2] Hammill |
| 10/12/06 | H | 1-2 | [0-1] McGeady, [0-2] Zurawski, [1-2] Simmons |
| 16/09/06 | A | 0-1 | [0-1] McManus |
| 19/02/06 | H | 1-8 | [0-1] Petrov, [1-1] Tod, [1-2] Hartson, [1-3] Zurawski, [1-4] Zurawski , [1-5] Zurawski, [1-6] Maloney,[1-7] Lennon. [1-8] )Zurawski |
| 26/11/05 | A | 1-0 | [1-0] Ross |
| 28/08/05 | H | 0-4 | [0-1] Zurawski, [0-2] Hartson, [0-3] Nakamura, [0-4] Zurawski |
| 12/03/05 | A | 0-6 | [0-1] Hartson, [0-2] McGeady, [0-3] Hartson, [0-4] Petrov [0-5] Petrov, [0-6] Beattie |
| 12/12/04 | H | 0-2 | [0-1] Sutton, [0-2] Petrov |
| 25/09/04 | A | 0-3 | [0-1] Varga, [0-2] Camara, [0-3] Camara |
| 02/05/04 | A | 2-1 | [1-0] Nicholson, [1-1] Larsson [2-1] Dempsey |
Its top v bottom and the bookies quotes Celtic 7-1 on to win.
| Current League Position | |
| Celtic | Dunfermline |
| League Position | |
| 1 | 12 |
| League Points | |
| 68 | 19 |
| Goal Difference | |
| +42 | -30 |
| Last 6-SPL Match Form | |
| WWWWWW | WLLDLD |
| Home / Away SPL Record | |
| P13, W11, D1, L1 | P13, W4, D1, L8 |
Dunfermline`s win at Kilmarnock is their only SPL success since beating Hibs at Easter Road on 5th November. Celtic are undefeated in their last 18 Scottish games and are undefeated in the SPL since October. At home they have lost only once, on 21st August when St Johnstone won 1-0 and drawn with Hibs.
| Recent Form - home / away | ||||||
| Celtic (home) |
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Dunfermline (away) | ||||
| Inverness Caley Th | W | 1-0 | Aberdeen | L | 0-1 | |
| Dundee United | W | 2-1 | Motherwell | L | 1-3 | |
| Rangers | W | 1-0 | Kilmarnock | W | 3-0 | |
| Kilmarnock | W | 2-1 | Inverness Caley Th | D | 1-1 | |
| Hearts | W | 1-0 | Hearts | L | 0-4 | |
| Atletico Madrid | L | 0-1 | Rangers | L | 1-2 | |
Last Time Out
DUNFERMLINE: Chris Smith; Jordan McMillan, Kevin Rutkiewicz, Alex Keddie, Paddy Boyle; David Graham, Gary Mason (c) (Ryan Thomson, 80), Kyle Hutton, Joe Cardle (Paul Burns 72), Martin Hardie (Liam Buchanan 74), Andy Kirk
SUBS NOT USED: Ryan Goodfellow (GK), Andy Dowie, Austin McCann, Paul Willis,
CELTIC: Fraser Forster; Kelvin Wilson, Charlie Mulgrew, Thomas Rogne, Joe Ledley, Victor Wanyama, Scott Brown, Adam Matthews, James Forrest, Anthony Stokes, Gary Hooper
SUBS: Pawel Brozek, Lukasz Zaluska, Sung-Yong Ki, Georgios Samaras, Daniel Majstorovic, Kris Commons, Emilio Izaguirre
Referee at Celtic Park will be Stevie O`Reilly.
Come on ye Pars!
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