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Trivia
- Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill and Hughes were selected to play for the Scottish League against the Irish League on September 8th at Ibrox. Jock Stein would manage the side.
- Both Ayrton Inacio and Marco di Sousa played for the Reserves in the Reserve League Cup game at Celtic Park against Motherwell and this helped to bring in a healthy attendance of 11,500 for a Reserve fixture. Inacio scored two goals on the way to a 3-1 win which put them into the latter stages of the Reserve League Cup.
- For this game Hughes was moved across to centre forward with McBride out having picked up a leg knock against Dundee Utd; Charlie Gallacher coming in at outside left.
Review
This was a tough game with both sides aware of the implications of the result and both fighting for the win. Celtic looked to be cruising through until Murray popped up at the end but they only had a few more minutes to last out and Motherwell failed to find the third goal in the dying minutes. All of the Celtic side played well but John Hughes was a stand out. Celtic's first goal came from a corner lobbed over by Gallacher. Hughes missed the ball but he had attracted all the attention of the defenders and when Chalmers knocked it back in Lennox had an easy job to score. Celtic then proceeded to pound the Motherwell defense with attack after attack but during this time Motherwell made a break and and Fallon let in a powerful shot from Delaney. Then followed the penalty incident. Lenox was penalised for crashing into the goalkeeper. The free kick was taken and the ball passed back to the goalkeeper who Lennox challenged again. However Mastt Thomson had taken on the role of enforcer and he flattened Lennox. Penalty! Hughes made no mistake with the spot kick and Fir Park was in uproar!
In the second half Tommy Gemmell added to the power of the front line getting forward at any and every opportunity offering up his might shots. and it was from one of his dribbles to the byline and chip backs that Lennox got his second and Celtic's third goal. Motherwell fought back but could only get the one just before the end.
This was a well fought match. McCallum was booked late in the game for something he said to the referee.
Dundee Utd 1-3 Dundee – Dundee Utd's loss to Dundee opened the group right up and meant that any of the four teams could top the group depending on results in the last game
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts |
| Celtic | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Dundee Utd | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 |
| Dundee | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Motherwell | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 |
Teams
Motherwell
McCloy; M. Thomson, W. McCallum; Aitken, Martis, Murray; I. Thomson, Howieson, Delaney, McLaughlin, Hunter.
Scorers Delaney (31), Murray (87)
Celtic
Fallon; Young, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Chalmers, Divers, Hughes, Lennox, Gallacher.
Scorers Lennox 2 (4, 52), Hughes (pen 43)
Referee: N. Watson (Glenrothes)
Attendance: 22,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
