{"id":600740,"date":"2026-04-11T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:50:08","slug":"celtic-1-st-mirren-0-as-it-happened-martin-oneills-men-hold-on-to-go-second-in-the-premiership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600740\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic 1 St Mirren 0 as it happened \u2013 Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s men hold on to go second in the Premiership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Champions <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/celtic-fc\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Celtic<\/a> maintained the title pressure on Hearts after a narrow win over St Mirren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain made the difference for <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/martin-oneill\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Martin O&#8217;Neill<\/a>&#8216;s men despite a disappointing display &#8211; as the win over the Buddies was enough to move the Hoops about Rangers and into second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hearts fought back from a goal down to Motherwell to maintain their lead over Celtic at the summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Despite the win, <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/st-mirren-fc\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">St Mirren<\/a> can take plenty of credit from the game. Craig McLeish has vowed to make himself impossible for club chiefs to ignore when it comes to appointing a permanent boss, and defeat won&#8217;t have done his care any harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Despite a good display, a 2-0 win for Aberdeen over Hibs moved the Paisley side down to 11th in the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Celtic: Sinisalo, Ralston, Trusty, Scales, Tierney, Nygren, Oxlade-Chamberlain, McGregor, Yang, Cvancara, Maeda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Subs: Doohan, McCowan, Iheanacho, Tounekti, Engels, Saracchi, Hatate, Arthur, Forrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">St Mirren: George, Gogic, Freckleton,Donnelly, O&#8217;Hara, Campbell, Phillips, Devaney, John, Ayunga, Mandron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Subs: Mullen, Richardson, King, Tanswe, Idowu, McMenamin, Douglas, Etete. Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champions Celtic maintained the title pressure on Hearts after a narrow win over St Mirren. 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