Celtic were held to a thrilling draw as Dundee United extended their unbeaten run to six games and the hosts retained their four-point lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n
It looked like Jim Goodwin’s visitors might end a 34-year, 51-game wait for a win at Celtic Park when goals from Zac Sapsford and Neil Farrugia gave them a half-time lead after Camilo Duran’s opener for the hosts.<\/p>\n
But Liam Scales’ equaliser ensured Celtic secured a deserved point given their second-half pressure, albeit they have won just three times in their latest nine outings.<\/p>\n
Both sides had gone close from set-pieces before the hosts broke the deadlock – and it was no surprise that it came from Duran.<\/p>\n
Kasper Hogh knocked the ball back into his path inside the box and his Colombian strike partner slotted it home with typical aplomb for this 12th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Jesse Randall was denied by Celtic goalkeeper Sam Johnstone from close range and Benjamin Nygren by Jack Walton at the other end before the game took an unexpected twist.<\/p>\n
Sapsford, fresh from scoring the weekend winner against Aberdeen, rose in similar fashion to meet a Lyall Cameron free-kick and glance into the far corner.<\/p>\n
Three minutes later, another Cameron free-kick bounced off Bert Esselink into the path of fellow defender Farrugia to prod home his first United goal off the despairing Liam Scales.<\/p>\n
Two half-time changes turned the tide back in Celtic’s favour.<\/p>\n
With Hogh and Callum Osmand withdrawn by manager Martin O’Neill and Haissem Hassan and Jota recruited on the wings, the latter’s inswinging cross following a corner was glanced inside the far post off the head of Scales.<\/p>\n
Celtic piled on the pressure, but United held on for a point, although that was not enough to prevent Dundee leapfrogging them into fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic were held to a thrilling draw as Dundee United extended their unbeaten run to six games and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-898065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}