A dream premiere with five stars for the Celtic in this year’s Champions League!
The Scots dominated against the Slovan Bratislavathrowing a huge party at Glasgow’s packed Celtic Park and celebrating the resounding victory with 5-1starting her duties in the organization in the best possible way!
For the next matchday, Celtic will travel with high spirits to Germany, for the difficult test against Dortmundwhile things will not get any easier for the Slovakian champions (Kyriakos Savvidis came on as a substitute in the 76th minute), who will host the Manchester City.
The home team came into the heat at Celtic Park, creating their first real chance to open the scoring in the 4th minute, with Magenta to get in the back of the defense but shoot high out. In the 8th minute, Slovan answered, with Strelets entering the big area, shooting over a defender’s body.
From there, however, Celtic took the reins of the match, pressing Slovan’s defense with consecutive set pieces and coming close to the goal again in the 12th minute, with Takacs blocking a Maeda header. Finally, the score was opened in the 17th minute when Engels took a corner and Scales sent the ball into the net with a powerful header! In fact, a minute later Furuhashi missed a great chance to make it 2-0, seeing Takacs stop his attempt.
The Japanese striker was also a protagonist in the 35th minute, failing to score from a very good position, in a phase that started with a mistake in Slovan’s defense, which was probably lucky to go to the locker room losing only 1-0.
Unfortunately for them, Celtic went into the second half loaded as well, with Takacs stopping Engels’ powerful shot in the 46th minute and Furuhashi making it 2-0 in the 47th minute, after an individual effort and a couple of assists. of Kun!
Slovan tried to fight back, taking possession for a couple of minutes, but it was the home side who found a way to the net again in the 56th minute, with Ignatenko taking a penalty and Engels slotting home to make it 3-0. In the 61st minute, Wimmer scored with a superb outside pass to give his team hope, but Celtic could not really be threatened in this match, completing their triumph with two more goals from Maenda (70′) and Aida (87′). )!
Celtic: Schmeichel – Johnston (71′ Ralston), Carter Vickers, Scales, Taylor – Engels, McGregor, Hatate (77′ Bernardo) – Kuhn (71′ Forest), Maeda, Furuhashi (77′ Aida)
Slovan: Takacs – Blackman, Kasia, Bayric, Wimmer – Ignatenko (76′ Savvidis), Kutska (85′ Gaidos) – Barseyan (76′ Marcelli), Tolic, Weiss (76′ Mak) – Strelets (85′ Metsoko)
Source: Sport Fm
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