{"id":646927,"date":"2026-05-03T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:51:09","slug":"hibs-vs-celtic-live-latest-updates-as-ineanacho-goal-gives-hoops-major-title-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646927\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibs vs Celtic LIVE! Latest updates as Ineanacho goal gives Hoops major title boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celtic head along the M8 with the incentive of knowing victory over Hibs will see them draw level on points at the top of the Premiership<\/a> with Hearts.<\/p>\n

The Jambos kick off 24 hours later when they welcome Rangers, also in the hunt for the title, to other side of Edinburgh for a mouthwatering Bank Holiday Monday clash.<\/p>\n

It’s set up to be a fascinating couple of days in one of the most enthralling title races in Scottish football<\/a> history.<\/p>\n

But what about today’s hosts, Hibs? Well, they still have a chance of fourth place after Motherwell slipped up on Saturday, the Steelmen going down to Falkirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some Hibees, though, say they would be happy to sacrifice that if it stops their bitter rivals lifting an historic Scottish title. But boss David Gray<\/a> and Joe Newell are adamant they have no intention of rolling over against Celtic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hibs: Smith, O’Hora, Boyle, Newell, Chaiwa, Iredale, McGrath, N Cadden, Megwa, Rocky, Elding Subs: Owens, Alasana, C Cadden, Obita, Barlaser, Andrews, Campbell, Scarlett, Suto<\/p>\n

Celtic: Sinisalo, Johnston, Trusty, Scales, Tierney, McGregor, Engels, Nygren, Yang, Tounekti, Maeda Subs: Doohan, McCowan, Ihenacho, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Saracchi, Hatate, Murray, Forrest, Ralston<\/p>\n

All that talk simply adds to the drama of and you can find out how it all unfolds right here in our LIVE blog from Leith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic head along the M8 with the incentive of knowing victory over Hibs will see them draw level…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22716,228239,18282,10756,54513,72676,43,84338,27603,84337,113572,44,9003,41,39,42,40,255762],"class_list":["post-646927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-nygren","tag-callum-mcgregor","tag-celtic-fc","tag-daizen-maeda","tag-david-gray","tag-footballblog","tag-headlines","tag-hibernian-fc","tag-james-forrest","tag-martin-boyle","tag-martin-oneill","tag-news","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-viljami-sinisalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646927","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=646927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}