Celtic 2-Motherwell1: Pittsburgh Edition!

By: Matt | May 4th, 2008

skippy scrappy Bhoy, are you guys unlucky. I was planning on doing a live blog for yesterdays game, bright and early at 7:30 Eastern Time. You would have been exposed to some unprecedented obscenities for the first 60 minutes of the game. “Some artists work in oils or clays, [Matt]’s medium is obscenities.” However, I had to head to the Steel City early yesterday morning for a family funeral. Luckily Tyler Durden of the Dead Raibead kept me updated via mobile phone and Channel 67 (rip off but my home computer refuses to let me *ahem* type random letters and have the game show up, so I ponied up the cash for a month subscription) let me rewatch the game. Like all of you, even though I knew the results I still got to experience in all the frustration!
It wasn’t pretty. Celtic and Motherwell had some chances in the first half, but Motherwell probably gets credit for dominating the first half. Both teams, however went into halftime scoreless. Motherwell then struck first in the 60th minute and it was tense times to say the least, or at least a tense two minutes. Celtic and Scott McDonald struck back and it was on. Celtic waited until the 79th minute to get their first corner of the game. Until that point Motherwell had 14 corners, however one was all Celtic needed. Barry Robson delivered a peach of a corner and Georgios Samaras put a head on it into the back of the net and put Celtic ahead for good and earn an ugly 3 pts. Ugly 3 pts count exactly the same as a pretty 3 pts, and perhaps even more with Rangers tying Hibs today. Celtic are now 7 points ahead with Rangers having 3 games in hand. The virtual lead for Rangers is now 2 points. Celtic and Rangers will have a wee opponent switch as Celtic hosts Hibernian while Dundee United will travel to Ibrox.