Celtic — Beşiktaş 3:2, 5 November: match result

match finished UEFA Europa League · Matchday 4 Thursday 5 November · 20:00 UTC

Celtic 32th · 3 pts WLLL

3 : 2 1st half 0:0

Beşiktaş 8th · 7 pts LDWWL

Celtic Park · referee S. Stegemann

Match predictionBold

Beşiktaş to avoid defeat

73% · Beşiktaş sit 24 places higher in the table

Prediction missed. We predicted “Beşiktaş to avoid defeat”, and the match finished 3:2.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Celtic 31% draw 23% Beşiktaş 46%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Beşiktaş win, and the match finished 3:2. Fans backed Beşiktaş win — they got it wrong.

fans 32 votes

Celtic 31% draw 16% Beşiktaş 53%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

J. Olaitan 0-1 54'

B. Nygren 60'

C. Duran for J. Forrest 61'

C. Donovan for J. Lotomba 61'

C. Osmand for S. Tounekti 61'

C. Osmand assist: C. McGregor 1-1 62'

T. Djalo for E. Agbadou 70'

D. Vlahovic for Oh Hyeon-Gyu 70'

O. Kokcu for S. Ozcan 76'

H. Hassan for K. Hogh 77'

C. Duran assist: C. Osmand 2-1 78'

D. Murray for C. Carter-Vickers 78'

I. Fakili for V. Cerny 83'

R. Yilmaz for K. Ouattara 83'

O. Kokcu assist: E. Poku 2-2 85'

C. Duran 3-2 87'

M. Murillo 90+4'

E. Topcu 90+5'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Celtic 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 Beşiktaş

Sam Johnstone  
Jordan Lotomba  20 Cameron Carter-Vickers  5 Liam Scales  63 Kieran Tierney  
Callum McGregor  22 Mika Baur  
James Forrest  8 Benjamin Nygren  17 Sebastian Tounekti  
Kasper Høgh  

Hyeon-gyu Oh  
Václav Černý  19 Leandro Trossard  17 Ernest Poku  
Junior Olaitan  6 Salih Özcan  
Amir Murillo  12 Emmanuel Agbadou  53 Emirhan Topçu  11 Kassoum Ouattara  
Alexander Nübel  

Celtic bench

21Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
19Callum Osmand
11Camilo Durán
51Colby Donovan
47Dane Murray
23Haissem Hassan
14Luke McCowan
18Oliver Sørensen
31Ross Doohan
33Sean McArdle
56Tony Ralston
1Viljami Sinisalo

Beşiktaş bench

70Ahmet Sami Bircan
80Doğan Alemdar
28Dušan Vlahović
8Kartal Kayra Yılmaz
10Orkun Kökçü
33Rıdvan Yılmaz
90Semih Kılıçsoy
22Taylan Bulut
35Tiago Djaló
4Wilfred Ndidi
58Yasin Özcan
29İlhan Fakılı

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

39%Possession61%

10Shots15

6Shots on target4

4Shots off target6

0Blocked shots5

4Shots inside box7

6Shots outside box8

76Attacks142

31Dangerous attacks64

5Corners7

2Offsides2

10Fouls11

1Yellow cards2

2Saves3

373Passes599

281Accurate passes513

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties1

Celtic

BeşiktaşThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Celtic and Beşiktaş met on matchday 4 of the UEFA Europa League on 5 November at Celtic Park. Final score — 3:2.

Celtic sit 32th on 3 points after 4 matches (1 win, 0 draws, 3 losses). Beşiktaş sit 8th on 7 points after 10 matches (7 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses), 5 matches without conceding.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Celtic last five Beşiktaş

WLLL form LDWWL

4 Matches 10

1 — 0 — 3 Wins — draws — defeats 7 — 1 — 2

6 — 11 Scored — conceded 19 — 9

0.75 Points per game 2.2

1.5 Goals scored per game 1.9

0 Clean sheets 5

0 Failed to score 1

unbeaten in 1 Current streak winless in 2

Celtic at home: 3 matches, 1 win, 0 draws, 2 losses, goals 5—7, 1 points per match.

Beşiktaş away: 5 matches, 3 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses, goals 8—6, 1.8 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
7	Bayer Leverkusen	4	3	0	1	8—1	9
8	Beşiktaş	4	2	1	1	11—8	7
9	Dinamo Zagreb	4	2	1	1	5—4	7
…
31	Olympique Marseille	4	1	0	3	2—6	3
32	Celtic	4	1	0	3	6—11	3
33	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	4	0	1	3	1—8	1

Full UEFA Europa League table