Premiership: St Mirren 0-0 Celtic as it happened

Summary

Olivier Ntcham sent off for second booking
Oran Kearney earns draw in debut as St Mirren manager
Celtic two points off leaders Hearts having played a game more

Live Reporting

Andy Campbell

Postpublished at 20:09 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
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I have been impressed with the way St Mirren have gone about their business, defensively and offensively. They have made some good chances and there's been a hardness about them as well
Postpublished at 23 mins
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
St Mirren have certainly had the better of things so far and new boss Oran Kearney will be encouraged with what he has seen so far.
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Postpublished at 20:03 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
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Celtic are creating their own problems. There was a lack of communication between Scott Brown and James Forrest, and no-one was picking up Ryan Flynn in the box. They are silly little errors
Postpublished at 20:03 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
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Anton Ferdinand joined St Mirren today and did not need to wait long to make his debut
Celtic 'all over the place' at the backpublished at 20:02 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Steven Thompson
Former St Mirren striker on BBC Sportsound
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The cross from Lee Hodson is absolutely pinpoint. I think Flynn has to do better. He must hit the target. He's in the middle of the six-yard box, the ball is right on his head, he doesn't have to change his body shape too much. He has to do better. Almost 15 minutes and Celtic look all over the place defensively
Postpublished at 20:00 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Rob Maclean
BBC Scotland commentator
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He really should've hit the target there
CLOSE!published at 14 mins
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Ryan Flynn heads over the Celtic crossbar from Lee Hodson's cross.
St Mirren pressurepublished at 19:57 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Steven Thompson
Former Scotland striker on BBC Sportsound
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St Mirren are not allowing Celtic any time.They are saying 'you have it, we don't care' but when that ball comes into the middle of the park they are on Celtic
Postpublished at 19:55 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
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It is perfect tactics from St Mirren so far, keeping it compact and tight, giving Celtic no space, and then hitting them on the counter-attack
Postpublished at 19:55 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
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Filip Benkovic (right) is making his Celtic debut this evening
CLOSE!published at 6 mins
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Decent pressing from St Mirren on their left. Celtic get in a couple of blocks before Kyle Magennis flashes a shot across the face of goal.
Postpublished at 19:50 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
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He went for pace and power and it was a decent save, but you would expect Craig Gordon to save that
GREAT SAVE!published at 3 mins
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
St Mirren have the first real effort at goal after winning a free-kick. Cammy Smith fires straight for the top left corner but Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon beats away.
Postpublished at 19:48 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Steven Thompson
Former St Mirren striker on Edwards' booking
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What is he doing? It's his debut and he's trying to set the tone and he went in and pressed Kieran Tierney but he leaves one on him, which is so blatantly obvious. There's enthusiasm and there's taking it too far
YELLOW CARDpublished at 2 mins
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
An early yellow card for St Mirren debutant Ryan Edwards for a foul on Kieran Tierney.
KICK-OFFpublished at 19:46 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren 0-0 Celtic
Benkovic lines up at the back for Celticpublished at 19:44 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren v Celtic (19:45)
Ferdinand straight into sidepublished at 19:43 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren v Celtic (19:45)
Match statspublished at 19:42 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren v Celtic (19:45)
- St Mirren have only won one of their past 30 league meetings with Celtic - a 4-0 victory in March 2010
- The Buddies have only managed nine goals in the other 29 meetings.
- St Mirren have only earned one point in the previous 15 meetings between the two (L14), a 1-1 draw in March 2013, and have lost all six games since.
- Celtic have lost two of their past three league games away from home (W1), as many defeats as in their previous 36 matches on the road.
- Celtic’s Olivier Ntcham has been directly involved in three of their five league goals so far this campaign.
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Olivier Ntcham (right) scored the winner in Celtic's win over Rangers 12 days ago
Scottish Premiership bottom sixpublished at 19:38 British Summer Time 14 September 2018
St Mirren have won only one of their opening four matches since their return to the top flight and sit second-bottom before tonight's match with Celtic.
Dundee are four losses from four.
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