Celtic became the latest club to stumble in the race for the Scottish Premiership title as struggling Dundee United beat them at Tannadice for the second time this season.<\/p>\n
It is the first time United have achieved such a feat in 35 years, and goes some way to alleviating fears they could get sucked into a relegation play-off battle.<\/p>\n
United captain Will Ferry got the first goal, stabbing in from close range on a pitch that was heavily criticised for its sandy, bobbly surface.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Agyei, a January signing from FC Ashdod in Israel, scored the unlikely second, drilling in from outside the box to double the hosts’ advantage.<\/p>\n
Celtic pushed for a way to get back into the game, but United proved more stable at the back than they did last week in their last collapse against neighbours Dundee.<\/p>\n
It was a deserved victory for Jim Goodwin’s men, too. <\/p>\n
Although Celtic dominated possession, United had 18 shots – the most the Glasgow club have faced in the league this season – as they peppered the opposition in a surprisingly offensive performance.<\/p>\n
Martin O’Neill’s side now trail league Hearts by five points, and second-placed Rangers by two.<\/p>\n
As well as claiming another famous scalp, United keep their slim hopes of a top-six finish alive. They are six points behind Falkirk, with two games to play before the split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic became the latest club to stumble in the race for the Scottish Premiership title as struggling Dundee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-557274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}