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One name leads out there, Kallum McGregor starts competitively for | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
the first time. He was a star last season. Despite a good preseason, | :01:45. | :01:57. | |
one player is on the bench. The referee is Greek. He is 36 years old | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
and from Athens. Celtic made it last year, but they turned it round | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
against the Kazakhstan side and their manager Neil Lennon decided -- | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
said it was his biggest achievement and the ball. It is incredible that | :02:19. | :02:32. | |
it was a year that Celtic were taking on Cliftonville. It is likely | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
that they will ask more team -- questions than the Northern Irish | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
team did. Former Celtic striker and current Scotland assistant boss Mark | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
McGhee is alongside me. How do you see it going? It can only go | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Celtic's way, lots of goals in the teams with Commons. They will have | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
to start with the right frame of mind. We saw them a year ago at this | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
stage having to qualify through the sort of games. They concentrated in | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
did the job may need to get themselves into the group stages. It | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
is all getting very wheel -- real for the Norwegian manager drafted in | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
as Neil Lennon's replacement, alongside him, John Collins, the | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
former Celtic midfielder, back as assistant. Another early start | :03:28. | :03:41. | |
without being in this accommodation is unthinkable. It would have been | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
stressed to Ronny Deila early on in the negotiations that brought him | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
here to Celtic Park. The bread-and-butter no longer satisfies | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
the appetites of the Celtic supporters. The title is theirs | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
before a ball is kicked, really, as Griffiths chases the ball. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
He start on the right-hand side with Stokes through the middle. Textbook | :04:05. | :04:21. | |
pass from Charlie, left foot, over the top. Into Griffiths. The touch | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
did not get him in. They were keeping the ball, being patient, | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
working the opposition. They do need this European adventure, Celtic. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Here come the Icelandic champions, the most successful side in | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Icelandic football being chased down by the English, Martin. He had a | :04:46. | :05:02. | |
loan spell in Iceland, just ten games, just a up fitness. He ended | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
up staying. He's been here for a free veneers -- few years now. | :05:08. | :05:19. | |
Fraser Forster, still a Celtic player, but we don't know Fama to | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
longer. The Celtic fans will hope a lot longer -- we don't know how much | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
longer. We were wondering if there was any prospect of him leaving and | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
they might have compromised him by playing in the Champions League game | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
if he moves to a club in Europe, and he is playing, so maybe that tells | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
us he is going to be here. McGregor. An early touch him. A big night for | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
the 21-year-old. A terrific season in England with Notts County and a | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
good pre-season with Celtic when they were in Austria. Commons has | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
found him. He has won a free kick as well. He has done well there. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Quickly. He is stepping in off the left-hand side, on his right foot | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
it's a difficult thing to pick up. A good opportunity with a free kick. | :06:16. | :06:42. | |
35 yards out. Stokes leaves it for Munro. Van Dijk. -- Mulgrew. Another | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
one that Celtic will hope stays at the club is coming campaign. I | :06:53. | :07:06. | |
thought maybe he could have moved his feet quicker and could have | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
headed it across goal. Just a little bit high. Mulgrew, firing it out to | :07:10. | :07:44. | |
lusty, who missed so much of last season through injury. -- two | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
lasted. -- Lustig. Mulgrew is skippering the side. Scott Brown out | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
for. -- for the foreseeable future thanks to the horrible hamstring | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
injury he picked up against Rapid Vienna. Griffiths tries to keep it | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
alive. Just stepping away from Baldi. In | :08:10. | :08:32. | |
from Ambrose. Mulgrew. Izaguirre. Stokes is trying to work it back to | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
the Hondurans. Strong defending, in the writeback area. Hauksson, now | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Martin. -- in the writeback area. That is what you need when striker | :08:43. | :09:09. | |
becomes isolated, when the opposition are dominating, when it | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
is up there, you need to keep it. He has done well for his team. | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
KR had been on a good run until last week when they lost to the bottom | :09:19. | :09:51. | |
side, or at least they were the bottom side, until they came out as | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
2-0 winners last Thursday night with a goal in each half. Before that, | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
five wins in a row for KR Reykjavik. Ambrose, sliding it through for | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Lustig. Decent looking cross and Griffiths was waiting. Decent cross | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
into a good area, but you are right, Leigh Griffiths was waiting for it | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
and he has to be on the move and get across people, but instead he was a | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
bit flat-footed and did not give himself any opportunity to get on | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
what the end of was a good cross. Baldur Sigurdsson is playing just in | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
front of the four-man defence, and he got it clear. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Celtic's top scorer last season. 32 and he's not even an out and out | :10:40. | :10:52. | |
striker. Very difficult to replicate that. Scotland's Player of the Year, | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
a fantastic season and gold tally. It will be interesting under the new | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
management to see if he is given such freedom and such license, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
because a lot of the time it doesn't take too much into the defensive | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
side of the game. I don't mean he does not work hard, but he is very | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
effective, but it will be interesting to see how his role | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
develops under the new manager. Hauksson, the former Iceland U21 | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
international. Plays over at right back. They actually lost a left-back | :11:32. | :11:43. | |
today. The man on loan from Molde was expected to be here but returns | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
to his home club in Norway this morning. According to the KR | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
manager,, Runar Kristinsson, he also happens to be Iceland's most capped | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
player with 104 caps. He has managed to win a trophy every | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
season since he took the reins here. First time from Johannsson, for | :12:06. | :12:23. | |
Griffiths. Commons. He is so unlucky. What a hit from Commons. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
The flag is up for offside, in the meantime. That was a wonderful | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
effort. As you were saying, the Player of the Year in Scotland. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Setting the tone already, why should he not be Player of the Year. Taking | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
its first time. What a fantastic effort to combat of the bar. -- | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
taking it. -- to come back off the bar. Wonderful technique from | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Commons, we saw it so often last year, so confident outside the | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
penalty box. Another example there. Lustig in trouble but gets the free | :12:55. | :13:08. | |
kick. The shot was overdue because we had played ten minutes and that | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
was the first one goal, and I think Celtic would be expecting by this | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
stage, given the possession, to have had a few more shots on goal, but | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
that has got it started and now we can start to see them build up the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
bit of confidence and maybe get some more shots away and May the 1st | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
goal. Griffiths. One by Gunnarsson, the left-back. Wasn't expecting to | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
start. The man from Molde, if he had been playing left-back, which he had | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
most of the season, they are 11 games into their campaign, KR | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Reykjavik and that works in their favour tonight. Celtic's first | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
competitive outing. Johannsson, who played under Ronny Deila. Won the | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
title with him as well. Johannsson, to Commons. He looks in the mood. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
The goalkeeper made a real mess of that and eventually dealt with it, | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Stefan Magnusson. A great strike, on target, with power. Gave the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
goalkeeper problem and looked as though it moved a little bit. It's | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
one the bit in the air, but the goalkeeper dealt with it well | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
enough. -- it swung a bit. Scramble out of the corner, the first of the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
match. -- scrambled out for the corner. | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
Van Dijk almost got there. Ambrose. But a free kick. One of the | :14:45. | :15:00. | |
interesting things is the interesting relationship between | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
McGregor and Lustig. Griffiths has to develop that as well. A couple of | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
times when they have hit the diagonals, they are both on the | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
touchline, so they haven't got that right yet. You watch the corner, and | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
the referee blew his whistle before Ambrose got the shot away. It is a | :15:17. | :15:33. | |
hip injury for Lustig. Hauksson came across. Away by Ambrose. Just | :15:34. | :15:51. | |
dragging the ball away. The first real questions being asked of the | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
Celtic defence there. Good work from Gunnarsson on the left-hand side. | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
Just a word of warning. McGregor trying to search for Anthony Stokes, | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
thumped away by Sigurdsson. Trying to find Izaguirre, who | :16:13. | :16:40. | |
appreciate the spot by Commons. Gary Martin's sixth goal. -- sixth | :16:41. | :17:19. | |
game of this campaign so far. Gunnarsson. Either van Dijk or | :17:20. | :17:38. | |
Ambrose can step in with the ball and Mulgrew can fill in, so that's a | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
good bit of security. Leigh Griffiths was a bit slow to get it. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Again, taking it up the park. They do like to marauding forward | :17:53. | :18:17. | |
from their defensive post. McGregor -- to marauding forward. | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
Ambrose, and Izaguirre, he played all three of his country 's games at | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
the World Cup final. Van Dijk had ambitions to be part of | :18:34. | :19:06. | |
the Dutch squad. Izaguirre. Straight to Balde. -- Lorenzo Balbi. The | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
pitch could have done with some rain, it is a bit sticky. The | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
grasses along when you walk across it. It is slowing the ball down a | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
bit -- the grass is long. Slipped through towards | :19:25. | :19:36. | |
The long ball forward from Hauksson. Offside flag against Gary Martin. | :19:37. | :19:54. | |
He feels he probably has something to prove. | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
Not the best angle to be able to clarify the offside there. Flag was | :20:03. | :20:14. | |
up as soon as Martin went on goal. Meantime, here come Celtic through | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
Stokes. Did not catch it well, but Johannsson gets the consolation | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
prize of a corner. Just came underneath him a little bit and | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
forced him to side footed. The surface is a little bit slow and it | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
didn't arrive as quick as he would have liked. Stokes with the corner. | :20:37. | :20:48. | |
Not a bad headed clearance and it has got KR Reykjavik on their bike, | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
and it is with Martin. That is a free kick, the referee in agreement. | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Again, Martin did well, running down the line. There might have been a | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
hand on his back to give him the opportunity to go down, but again | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
good running from him and he's taken his team up the park. Got the team a | :21:16. | :21:27. | |
free kick, which is good. Lorenzo Balbi is over it. Scored his first | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
for the club the same night that Luis Suarez scored his two goals | :21:32. | :21:32. | |
against England. Celtic deal with it and it is with | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
Callum MacGregor. A great run on the right-hand side from Leigh | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Griffiths. There it is with Griffiths. Loads of black and white | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
shirts back to defend. Stokes is tossing it in. That will be easy for | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
the goalkeeper, Stefan Magnusson. The 33-year-old in his second spell | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
at the club. He does have Icelandic caps, ten of them, in fact. Hasn't | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
played for them since a 4-0 defeat against Hungary a few years back. No | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
KR Reykjavik players in the Iceland squad in the last couple of years | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
anyway. And Iceland squad that was very close to getting to Brazil in | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
the finals that have just finished. They lost out to Croatia in a two | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
legged play-off. They drew 0-here -- 0-0 here, in a different part of the | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
cash -- capital. A 2-0 defeat by Croatia through in Zagreb. | :22:50. | :23:11. | |
The more weeks went by after the arrival of step Johannsson, the more | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
comfortable he looked, getting into his stride -- Stephan Johansen. He | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
had not long finish the Norwegian season before he was brought to | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Celtic during the January transfer window. | :23:28. | :23:41. | |
Some legally little fouls being put out -- niggling little fouls being | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
put in. That was Atlason. Griffiths is offside. At this stage | :23:50. | :24:04. | |
of the season they are looking to develop the play and see things a | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
bit earlier. Izaguirre is doing a lot of creeping down the left-hand | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
side and there have been a couple of times he might have been put in but | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
at this stage of the season it takes a bit longer to get it right. Grip | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
is right on the line and it was a tight decision. I pray yes, but the | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
right decision. -- yes, but the right decision. | :24:25. | :24:59. | |
Celtic have six of these matches to play if they reaped -- reach the | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Champions League. I think it is unfair with a European pedigree like | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
Celtic, that they have to play these rounds. One qualifying round, maybe | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
two, but three is ridiculous for a club like Celtic. Secondly, if they | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
approach it the way they are, these are part of the build-up. They are | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
not playing a C Milan Barcelona. They are playing a team they should | :25:29. | :25:41. | |
take care of. Playing at team like this in a pre-season friendly, | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
instead of that it's competitive, which is better for the builder. | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
Ronny Deila had plenty to say about it yesterday. All Celtic can do is | :25:55. | :26:08. | |
keep playing well and then the other clubs can come back to Europe, like | :26:09. | :26:22. | |
Aberdeen, then Celtic can go back and not have to play these games. | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Aberdeen will be joining in on Thursday and then Motherwell are up | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
against another Icelandic side. Martin's effort. Forster holds on. A | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
decent effort but the two centre halves, they back off and let them | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
have a shot. He has a knife or goal, Gary Martin. KR Reykjavik are | :26:53. | :27:05. | |
currently third in the league. And St Johnstone face lucerne of | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
Switzerland. Saints away from home in the first leg. Celtic away from | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
home and on the ball with Izaguirre. He evades the challenge of | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
Sigurdsson. Celtic contrived to give it away immediately after. 20 | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
minutes gone, they have got to lose patience. They have two games to win | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
the tie, so it is early and they've not scored yet. They could get | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
anxious, but they shouldn't and eventually the play will go for them | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
and they will get a goal, so they don't have to force it and start | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
hitting long balls, just be patient and keep probing and one of the good | :28:02. | :28:11. | |
players up front will get a goal. Celtic forfeited home advantage for | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
the first two qualifiers and they will play at Murrayfield for the | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
first time next week. Celtic Park being used in the opening ceremony | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
of the Commonwealth Games morrow. The referee not happy with the | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
challenge by older Sigurdsson, the KR captain. | :28:29. | :28:46. | |
Mulgrew. Griffiths. Snapping at his heels. | :28:47. | :29:08. | |
Johansen. MacGregor. Mole group things it out to Lustig. -- he pings | :29:09. | :29:31. | |
it out to Lustig. It goes Celtic's way. Celtic finding it difficult | :29:32. | :29:41. | |
with Reykjavik playing a tight back for an Sigurdsson in front of them, | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
to get the ball into Commons has been difficult. He is getting | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
frustrated. He wants the ball and he is moving it from side to side to | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
create space but not yet been able to find a space often enough in the | :30:00. | :30:10. | |
central area that was so effective. Celtic were 3-0 winners over | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
Cliftonville in the first leg at this stage last season and scored | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
another couple at Celtic Park to comfortably go through. Not quite as | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
comfortable against the Swedish side in the following round, the third | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
qualifying round and then what an experience that Celtic, 2-0 down in | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
the second leg, then won 3-0 with a last-minute goal from James Forrest, | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
a ?50 million goal that took Celtic into the group stages again. Looking | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
for a hat-trick of group stage appearances. A long way to go. | :30:46. | :30:55. | |
Picked up by Josepsson. Very deft from Sigurdsson. He is now on the | :30:56. | :31:11. | |
ball. Hauksson. Back to him. We have seen plenty of Martin, and he is on | :31:12. | :31:21. | |
it again. Not a bad delivery either. Lustig had to be at his station and | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
aware of the thread. Lovely touch by Griffiths. Getting no sympathy from | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
the referee. The cross from Gunnison. Pressure here for Celtic | :31:31. | :31:38. | |
to withstand. Yet it is blocked. Griffiths has made the recovery | :31:39. | :31:49. | |
frustrated with the past. That is Griffiths. It is ambitious. The | :31:50. | :31:58. | |
goalkeeper has slightly shifted out the centre of the goal and he tried | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
to hit the long one back into him but didn't quite catch it and he | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
recovers. Not a ridiculous idea for someone of his ability to go there. | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
There was a decent period of pressure just before that. I think | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
Celtic are aware that there is a threat. The important thing about | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
these games is that Celtic need to get the first goal, and if they | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
don't, they will be under pressure, but if they get the first goal, you | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
will see them settle down and they will believe they will win the game. | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
At the moment there is that bit of edginess and nervousness but the | :32:36. | :32:43. | |
first goal can help diminish that. This will not help the nerves, | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
Lorenzo Balbi winning the free kick off Ambrose. And Gary Martin is | :32:49. | :32:55. | |
sizing this up. Everybody rather than the goalkeeper -- other than | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
the goalkeeper up and around the penalty area for KR. Martin. | :33:01. | :33:12. | |
from the left-hand side and they have taken them poorly, much to the | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
pleasure of Celtic, and they have not been able to put any pressure | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
through the free kicks as they have fallen short. KR have to take more | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
advantage and put them in a dangerous area and they have done it | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
with crosses but not with free kicks. Johansen. Stokes. There is a | :33:30. | :33:58. | |
danger that Celtic are expected to win this tie, and with some degree | :33:59. | :34:08. | |
of comfort. Even those in this part of a world were suggesting that. | :34:09. | :34:26. | |
By think Anthony Stokes should be getting himself back up front. -- I | :34:27. | :34:42. | |
think. Still nothing each. Sigurdsson. Up and under. Less sick | :34:43. | :34:56. | |
felt he was felled. The -- Lustig felt he was fouled. | :34:57. | :35:16. | |
Izaguirre wins a free kick. He is not expecting a challenge. They are | :35:17. | :35:32. | |
not going to just lie down and be beaten in a Champions League game. | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
They are going to fight. He needs to get on with it. | :35:37. | :35:56. | |
Last season's group stage for Celtic yielded just one victory. They won | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
that one and lost all the others. Miserable compared to the previous | :36:08. | :36:10. | |
season. A no holds barred clearance there | :36:11. | :36:29. | |
from Sigurdarson. A wistful look at the referee from Martin. He was | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
wanting a free kick. A good initial play by Izaguirre. | :36:37. | :37:02. | |
Lost sight of the goal of there. That was a straight pass. A bit of | :37:03. | :37:14. | |
space, the movement got him on the ball. A good bit of play from | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
Stokes. Much more encouraging for Celtic. As the game goes on, there | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
will be spaces. They have to be patient, and eventually Charlie will | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
get one of those and they will score a goal. They both have similar | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
goal-scoring records. Stokes, 68 goals, Commons, 65 and 164 games. -- | :37:43. | :37:58. | |
in 164 games. Stokes was another who really began to crack out in the | :37:59. | :38:13. | |
second half of the last season. Forster watched all three of | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
England's World Cup matches from the bench, but a fantastic experience | :38:21. | :38:34. | |
for him. Lovely ball from McGregor. He has got it in but it could just | :38:35. | :38:55. | |
not get there. The angle. Much more encouraging. Half a dozen passes and | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
he ends up with the ball on the left-hand side. Celtic have to build | :39:02. | :39:08. | |
play and build opportunities. If they keep passing the ball the way | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
they did then, they will open up this act four. -- back four. | :39:14. | :39:26. | |
This time last year, Wilson played the last two rounds for Celtic and | :39:27. | :39:39. | |
then left for Nottingham Forest before the final stage. A real | :39:40. | :39:47. | |
problem this time last year, Celtic, in the respect that will then left | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
not long after the start of the season. Hoover had also gone, the | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
spine of the Celtic team. Look at their domestic record. You would | :40:01. | :40:09. | |
never know it. One defeat came to Aberdeen. | :40:10. | :40:31. | |
A free kick. The referee is on the scene. No question, Johansen hauling | :40:32. | :40:51. | |
Balbi to the deck. Reykjav?k is hardly a metropolis, | :40:52. | :41:24. | |
but there are six top-flight clubs playing football in the Icelandic | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
capital. Griffiths to McGregor. This is | :41:28. | :42:01. | |
promising from a Celtic point of view. | :42:02. | :42:11. | |
Mulgrew did well to keep that in plate there. He was lucky. He was | :42:12. | :42:20. | |
just trying to shepherd the ball out for the goal kick. That is lovely | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
from. Van Dijk. Play on, says the referee. It is not | :42:23. | :42:49. | |
a massive crowd inside the KR-vollur stadium but they are not happy. They | :42:50. | :43:01. | |
are right on top of that. You do not often see him play on the | :43:02. | :43:11. | |
right-hand side. You do not often see him on the right. The manager | :43:12. | :43:20. | |
will want him to create the space for Lustig, and then he takes it on | :43:21. | :43:31. | |
to his left foot where he can be effective. It is a good position for | :43:32. | :43:34. | |
a player like Leigh Griffiths. Not a bad ball thereby Atlason. Well | :43:35. | :43:53. | |
read by Ambrose. Commons has it now. Now it is with | :43:54. | :44:17. | |
Haukur Hauksson. Returning the favour. | :44:18. | :44:26. | |
Apart from the two Commons efforts, one that hit the bar and one that | :44:27. | :44:35. | |
was saved Magnusson, Celtic have not really troubled the KR Reykjavik | :44:36. | :44:47. | |
goalkeeper. There will think that the manager will want to encourage, | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
but it has given them a picture in this first half will stop idea not | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
think it has been bad for the game at this stage in the type of | :44:57. | :45:06. | |
opposition. Celtic are doing probably about as well as could be | :45:07. | :45:07. | |
expected. Johansen and Commons. McGregor. | :45:08. | :45:32. | |
Mulgrew to Johansen. Great ball by Lustig. Great play all around from | :45:33. | :45:41. | |
Celtic. The opportunity was set up and it was fantastic. A short pass | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
and a chip over the back for Lustig. Neither of the players could get the | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
end of it. Encouraging. Keep playing that, keep doing that, and Celtic | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
will get there eventually. The quarter is taken by -- the corner is | :46:01. | :46:13. | |
taken by Mulgrew. He is teasing Finnbogason. Nobody they are in | :46:14. | :46:25. | |
yellow. -- there in yellow. A couple of minutes to half-time. Celtic are | :46:26. | :46:43. | |
looking for the vital away goal. If there is anything missing from the | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
Celtic first-half performance it is that there has not been a player who | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
has really taken anyone on. When it is tight like this you need someone | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
just to keep the ball. Sometimes you need someone to try to beat | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
somebody, Stokes work almonds, someone to take someone on and | :47:04. | :47:13. | |
create an opportunity. -- Stokes or Commons. A little shuffle | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
information perhaps from Delia. Maybe move leakers has out to the | :47:22. | :47:31. | |
left. -- Leigh Griffiths. Only five minutes to half-time and I think it | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
is late to make that change. Van Dijk gets in the way. Josepsson. I | :47:37. | :47:48. | |
think McGregor may have found his way into the opposite -- may have | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
found his way. Johansen. Can Celtic find the | :47:53. | :48:19. | |
opening goal in the dying seconds of this first-half in Iceland? It is | :48:20. | :48:26. | |
easy to forget when Celtic are passing the ball and working | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
Reykjav?k as hard as they are, Reykjav?k are getting tired. They | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
are trying to contain Celtic and denied them opportunities on the | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
butt that is hard work. -- opportunities, but that is hard | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
work. There will be nothing added on at the end of the first half here at | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
the KR-vollur Stadium. Celtic have come closest to very good ash | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
Chicago have come closest. Two very good efforts. -- Celtic have come | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
closest. Two very good efforts. Half-time and the Champions League | :49:09. | :49:17. | |
qualifying round, first leg. It has not one -- been one to get | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
the pulse racing. It is all about getting through the qualifying round | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
and getting closer to the group stages of the Champions League | :49:29. | :49:31. | |
second leg, which is coming next Tuesday night at Murrayfield. With | :49:32. | :49:38. | |
me in the studio, my guests. What have you thought of that so far? On | :49:39. | :49:47. | |
a sticky pitch, the ball does not quite travel like you would like | :49:48. | :49:56. | |
it. They fell out of it and allowed KR Reykjavik a couple of chances. | :49:57. | :50:04. | |
This time of the season, that is probably the biggest issue, when you | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
do not see the pass or you over hate it or you do not get it there. They | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
want to get a result, they need it, just to get the momentum going. This | :50:15. | :50:23. | |
is something of a wearing down process, and KR Reykjavik will tire | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
as they try to constantly deny space and opportunities to Celtic. We were | :50:29. | :50:37. | |
just saying that it is almost the back four that have talked in really | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
tight. That can be difficult to break down. Charlie Mulgrew played a | :50:42. | :50:52. | |
great ball. You would hope that they do tire, but you expect that this | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
time of year, from a Celtic perspective. McGregor is playing | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
almost on the inside, and on the other side, Griffiths, who does not | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
like playing out there, he is tucked in, almost convincing that middle | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
area, and they are hoping maybe a change of play... There has been one | :51:13. | :51:26. | |
instance where Celtic... They can get that opportunity and finish it. | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
You have got to play with pace. You got to play quicker. You are not up | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
to full speed at this time of year. Scott Brown gives the team real | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
drive. Johansen in the middle, lovely on the ball, but you need | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
somebody with the ability to drive past two or three players and catch | :51:48. | :51:57. | |
the opposition. Celtic needs players who can take people on and go on the | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
inside and outside, and one of their players was injured and they are | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
missing him. Players need a good preseason and they need to get their | :52:07. | :52:14. | |
fitness levels up. Celtic almost scored within the first ten minutes. | :52:15. | :52:21. | |
When you have got ability like the best, Chris Commons is capable, and | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
what a fantastic strike. If it drops beneath the cross are, that is a | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
different game. He would love to get off to a season with a goal like | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
that, a fantastic strike. Beautiful technique. And it looks already as | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
if he is going to be as valuable a plow it -- player to Celtic this | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
season as he was last season. I think Celtic me -- miss the creative | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
players, and maybe he has stepped in, and he has done magnificently | :53:02. | :53:09. | |
well over the last few years. They will have to hope that he can | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
reproduce what he has done over the last couple of years. Little pockets | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
of space in between the lines, and it makes it difficult for the | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
opposition to pick up. It is important that he can get on the | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
ball. He is the one real creative force that they have, but it is | :53:30. | :53:32. | |
difficult when you are playing against such a tight defence. You | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
were concerned about the kick out from Forster, just handing | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
possession straight back. I have spoken to him about this in the | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
past. This particular instance, he kicked it away, and this was | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
probably the one key chance, albeit a short one, that he handled quite | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
well, but it will be interesting, under Ronny Delia, and I think it | :54:02. | :54:10. | |
will be interesting to see will add that philosophy to his game and | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
build the game from the back in a more structured way that -- maybe we | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
have seen in the past. Is there a case for reshuffling the front four? | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
I think Delia is getting to know the team. Commons is looking to play | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
that behind and to play that behind and of is to look for the ball. | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
Griffiths, he wants to play on the last man and stretch the opposition. | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
Stokes comes and he can float around a lot more. Griffiths is out on the | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
right and is not comfortable there. If you put him in the middle, you | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
can put Stokes out wide and McGregor on the other side, and it would be a | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
better balance, but for Ronny Delia, he is getting to know the players. | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
He has seen them in training and a few games. This is competitive | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
football and he will be looking to see if they can step up. We listened | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
to him on the radio just before we started and he was talking about | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
McGregor, who had a good knowledge of the game, and he will be hoping | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
that his players have that and can play a few different positions and | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
he can have different ways of playing, not just one way every week | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
that he can change depending on who is playing in the league. He has got | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
to come into the Scottish league and there will be teams that he has | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
never played against before, so it'll be interesting. It is | :55:38. | :55:44. | |
important for him to set tone. Even if they lost, you would expect they | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
would go to Celtic Park and wind. Getting a victory is vitally | :55:50. | :55:56. | |
important. The players start to buy into what you are doing as a | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
manager. You do not get results, the players can sometimes start to ask | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
questions in terms of, is this guy as great as we think he is? What did | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
you make up the appointment of Ronny Delia? You bump into him before he | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
got the job. It was about six weeks before he got the job. We went along | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
to his club to monitor what the goalkeeper coach was doing. He left, | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
of course, but I had no idea that he was going to be the Celtic manager | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
at that point in time. He was impressive and he was involved on | :56:35. | :56:38. | |
the pitch with his players. He was not doing too much and he was not | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
too overenthusiastic. We sat down and spoke to him afterwards and | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
reflected on what they were doing and he impressed me. I really did | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
not think he would be the Celtic manager. He has also been obviously | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
impressed people -- he has obviously impressed people. He was known | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
about. He must have impressed someone to get that huge job. You | :57:06. | :57:15. | |
would have expected Celtic to get in behind the Reykjav?k defence a lot | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
earlier than they did. A great ball I Charlie Mulgrew. -- by Charlie | :57:21. | :57:30. | |
Mulgrew. These guys are on the same wavelength. All of the sudden, the | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
opposition defence is running back towards their own goals, and it is | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
difficult to bear. If you get the full-backs getting in... You get | :57:40. | :57:45. | |
enough bodies in there, and eventually, he will pick somebody | :57:46. | :57:48. | |
out. That is the thing about Forster, he is someone who can | :57:49. | :57:56. | |
naturally play the ball and take players on and give you that | :57:57. | :57:59. | |
penetration and which stopped it is about getting the right balance for | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
the team, and it will take time for Ronny Delia to find the best lens. | :58:04. | :58:11. | |
-- blend. They have been without their skipper for three months. You | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
would expect Celtic to stroll through, but these games get war and | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
March difficult as you age towards the group stage. -- more and more | :58:22. | :58:31. | |
difficult. You need to experience, huge experience over the last two | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
years, Scott Brown was a captain, and he was missing last year, when | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
he got sent off in vital games, and he can help, and we talk about | :58:39. | :58:44. | |
younger players coming through, they need experienced players coming | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
through to really make them settle in, so he will be a huge miss, and | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
it does not look as though they are going to go to the market and by | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
someone. If he is out for three months, should they be signing a | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
Scott Brown type player for that role? It is difficult to find a | :59:02. | :59:12. | |
replacement for a player like him. He is a top international player. To | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
go out and get someone of that caliber will cost you a fortune. He | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
comes back in three or four months. It is a difficult conundrum for the | :59:21. | :59:28. | |
club. Do we speculate? That is why these guys are earning big money, to | :59:29. | :59:33. | |
make those decisions. There are going to be difficult rounds to | :59:34. | :59:40. | |
play. Would you be spending ?30 million on players at this stage not | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
knowing that you will actually get there? It is a big chance to take. I | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
think the strategy is quite sensible. They be that is the likes | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
of Roy Keane or the big guys did not get this job, the demands on them to | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
get big players. It is all about trying to fight for | :00:01. | :00:15. | |
the Europa League and there are quite a few hurdles. | :00:16. | :00:27. | |
We don't know too much about the Icelandic opposition, but those | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
games look pretty tough for St Johnstone and Aberdeen. I have been | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
out there before playing in games. They are at a different level than | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
what we are seeing with KR Reykjavik tonight. There is Switzerland's, I | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
have been out there for the preseason and they are a tough team. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
You see that they have a high standard out there. It is a tough | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
draw at this stage in the competition. Aberdeen will be | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
thinking that they might have enough quality to get to the group stages | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
but they have a long way to go. They are a quality side. The guys in | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
there, St Johnstone, Motherwell, they are good teams. There are guys | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
that have played on European stages as well, so they will go into that | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
tight with a lot of confidence, because they had a good season last | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
year, and they had someone who could be a potentially great signing for | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
them. I think those teams have got a good opportunity. This is ready in | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
analysis takes a strange twist. You will have to explain this. Doing a | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
bit of dodging there, but the trees were trying to knock me over. Just | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
doing a bit of filming for the adventure show. And you can find out | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
what he was happy with. I think it might have been his time on the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
adventure show, which is tomorrow night at 7:00pm. Heading back into | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
the second half of the match in Iceland between KR Reykjavik and | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Celtic. It is 0-0 have through. Here comes the second half life, with | :02:39. | :02:53. | |
your commentators. This is the third time KR Reykjavik have a Scottish | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
opposition, losing 14-1 on aggregate against Aberdeen in 1969, then | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
losing against Kilmarnock. Ambrose in the background there. A decent | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
World Cup campaign with Nigeria. They have had their problems since | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
their final match in Brazil, their last 16 game against France. Ambrose | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
played all four games, Bosnia, Argentina, then the game against the | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
French. Izaguirre played all three games for Honduras against the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
French, Ecuador and Switzerland. The closest KR Reykjavik have come to | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the group stage was in 2011 when they got to the third round in the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Europa League losing 6-1 on aggregate, but they knocked out a | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Slovakian side who had been in the Champions League group the season | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
before. KR Reykjavik do require a level of respect and I'm sure Ronny | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Deila has that in mind. He is up against Runar Kristinsson, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
and they came up against each other in the Norwegian top-flight. Ronnie | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Christensen was a midfielder, Ronny Deila was a defender. -- Runar | :04:21. | :04:21. | |
Kristinsson. Here is Albee -- Lorenzo Balbi. Not | :04:22. | :04:33. | |
a bad ball. It was useful. They have a corner, the host. No, not a bad | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
ball, and he got a second bite and got a corner kick. I was going to | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
say, these games are difficult until Celtic get the first goal, and they | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
do have to bide their time and defend well and keep their | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
concentration until they get a goal, and then the picture changes | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
and becomes different. Away by van Dyck. He took a clatter and it might | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
even have been his central defensive body who did the damage. | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
They both seem to be OK as their manager watches on, 38-year-old | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Ronny Deila, Celtic's 19th manager. Here is the corner that led to van | :05:22. | :05:40. | |
Dyck and Ambrose getting a sore one -- van Beek -- van | :05:41. | :05:52. | |
MacGregor. Now the Commons. MacGregor did not look out of place | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
in the first. Excellent ball for Lustig. The two Scandinavians. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Charlie Mulgrew, for Griffiths. Good effort from Commons again. That one | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
is off target. It was off target, but that is three out of three for | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Celtic that have come from Kris Commons with some interplay between | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
him and Griffiths. We wondered if there had been a change before | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
half-time of the managers had swapped MacGregor and Griffiths, but | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Griffiths is back on the right-hand side now. | :06:28. | :06:40. | |
The Icelandic season begins in October. That is due to the harsh | :06:41. | :06:56. | |
winters. Stokes. MacGregor. Izaguirre. Sigurdsson gets it away | :06:57. | :07:13. | |
to Martin. He is on his own really. A bit of company. He is not getting | :07:14. | :07:29. | |
there. Ambrose does. Stephan Johansen. Commons does well to keep | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
it alive. MacGregor. Just looked like it was opening up the Celtic. | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
Joss Upson got himself in the way. Part from the passing move and there | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
was the pace of it -- Josepsson. MacGregor, Commons, or moving | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
quickly and sprinting into position. That will make it difficult for | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
Reykjavik. Lustig. And Griffiths. We know he can do a lot better than | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
that. At this stage of the season, that is | :08:09. | :08:29. | |
what they are here for, to get it out the way and side -- fine tune | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
it. Maybe the next sighting will, and he will hit the target. | :08:35. | :08:46. | |
Eventually the referee makes the decision after Mulgrew was all over | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Lorenzo Balbi. Last season was the first time Celtic had to negotiate | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
the three rounds of qualifying and they are having to do it again this | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
year. The coefficient says so, and it is frustrating for the Celtic | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
players and the management team and the supporters, just the fact that | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
there are teams who finished fourth in their leagues who come in at the | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
later stages. Away by van Dijk. Sigurdsson with the long ball out. A | :09:18. | :09:35. | |
wonderful turn. Excellent skill. They do have individuals in the team | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
who are capable. Yes, and Celtic must respect that. Celtic snuffed it | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
out, stopping them coming into the box. There were a couple who felt | :09:52. | :10:16. | |
that their minds have drifted to this fixture. Struggling to hold | :10:17. | :10:33. | |
onto their title, that is sure. Johansen. It might break for Stokes. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Commons! He has got to score, surely. I think with his quality, | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
you would expect him to do better, but it was on his right hand side, | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
not the favoured left. He is trying to hit the target, scoop it into the | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
top corner but he has, and it is over the left-hand side. Got to | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
score is maybe taking it a bit too far. Bob Lee Ball causing problems | :11:17. | :11:31. | |
for the goalkeeper -- a bobbling ball causing problems for the | :11:32. | :11:32. | |
goalkeeper. MacGregor. Ambrose. Johannsson -- Johansen, for | :11:33. | :11:50. | |
Griffiths. Good work by MacGregor. That is in towards Griffiths. Celtic | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
putting a bit of pressure on here. Sigurdsson headed it clear. | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
The Celtic skipper for the night, Mulgrew. Looks likely to hold onto | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
the armband in the absence of Scott Brown. Lustig asked the question. | :12:11. | :12:23. | |
Better pressure from Celtic. They are playing on the front foot and | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
pressurising a bit higher up the park. There is an added tempo to the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
game that was missing in the first. MacGregor has started well. He has | :12:34. | :12:49. | |
probably gained a lot from his first performance and is getting himself a | :12:50. | :12:50. | |
bit more involved. MacGregor. Stokes. Stokes again. | :12:51. | :13:25. | |
This is promising. Commons. Did not quite get a hold of it. Commons may | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
be expected that wind up in the bottom corner, but MacGregor was at | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the heart of it, then Stokes, and the cutback in almost finding its | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
way into the back of the net. Another huge chance for Kris | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
Commons. Head in his hands there. Anyone who scored 30 goals a season | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
does not go a season without missing chances. You only get 30 goals if | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
you take shots and your percentages up, and eventually when he has that | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
many shops, one of them will go in. Sublime goal tally for Kris Commons | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
when you consider that he is not a main striker. He smashed through the | :14:20. | :14:32. | |
30 goal barrier in the course of a season that was terrific thing on a | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
personal level and also for Celtic. 26 times they have been Icelandic | :14:35. | :15:07. | |
champions, KR Reykjavik. The oldest, most successful club in Iceland. | :15:08. | :15:23. | |
Commons was tripped. Great play between Mulgrew and Commons, getting | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
in the whole, and then Charlie with the slide rule pass through the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
middle. Into his feet, and Kris Commons took it forward with one | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
touch. Great play. This is in quite a central area. A | :15:35. | :15:48. | |
little bit closer than the one in the first half, probably six or | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
seven yards closer and this is with in range for Charlie Mulgrew. The | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
one in the first half he tried to play it to van Dijk, but this time | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
we will see him having a shot. An embarrassment of riches of free | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
kicks with Celtic. We have seen Griffiths score free kicks in the | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
past. So many capable from here. This will be the right of Stokes or | :16:20. | :16:36. | |
the left of Mulgrew. Stokes. I expected Charlie to maybe take that, | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
but a decent enough effort. Not too far over from Anthony Stokes, but | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
again, this stage of the season, they were practising training, but | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
when you get out onto the park it is a different ball game, playing a | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Champions League match and putting it into the top corner. A little bit | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
of a site for him. He is capable of putting it in the net. Lorenzo | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
Balbi, Luis Suarez's brother-in-law, and we don't know how much truth | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
there is the Luis Suarez was invited to nice, but were a couple of | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
reasons, not least is banned from football stadiums -- he's banned | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
from football stadiums, that is one of the reasons he is mooted of being | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
here. Zato is the replacement, defensive midfielder. Justice his | :17:30. | :17:29. | |
first season at the club. -- just his first season at the | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
club. Mulgrew. MacGregor. Van Dijk takes | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
in his stride. Izaguirre. That was an awkward one, but Martin | :17:43. | :18:16. | |
read it. Sigurdsson arriving if Martin can get away from Mulgrew, | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
which she can't. Van Dijk a bit casual. Sigurdsson trying to pick | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
his pocket. Van Dijk resists. James Mulgrew. Charlie Mulgrew has | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
defended well down the left-hand side. | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
Lustig had to look lively. Johansen. Griffiths. Good effort. | :18:45. | :19:08. | |
Sensational effort, and that is one of the advantages of having a left | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
footed player on the right. We know Leigh Griffiths is capable of that. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Comes back inside on his left and hit a tremendous shot. Mulgrew's | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
effort is blocked. Sigurdsson gets there. Celtic starting to knock on | :19:27. | :19:27. | |
the door here. An absolutely volcanic effort from | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
Leigh Griffiths, exploding off the underside of the bar. That should | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
give Leigh Griffiths encouragement about playing in that area. The | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
corner from Stokes. Lustig tried, but it's another corner. Looks like | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
he might have got moron that may be a goal-scoring opportunity. Just | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
seemed to glance at it. Here is the shot from Griffiths again. Shaking | :19:58. | :20:12. | |
the gold frame. Taking the corner kick, but clutched on with both | :20:13. | :20:26. | |
hands by Stefan Magnusson. Celtic doing more than enough to justify | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
being in front, but still goalless. That is encouraging itself. Leigh | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
Griffiths and MacGregor finding itself -- themselves on opposite | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
sides from the corner kick. Not sure if there has been a change now. | :20:43. | :20:57. | |
Johansen. Lustig to MacGregor. Mulgrew. Johansen. Griffiths trying | :20:58. | :21:13. | |
to make his mark. He arrived after the Champions League adventure last | :21:14. | :21:27. | |
season. Mulgrew's ball for Stokes. He has not played on that side that | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
often. Even mentally, being put out there, when he comes an side and has | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
the shot that should give her encouragement as there are | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
opportunities to join in with Anthony Stokes and Kris Commons it | :21:49. | :22:03. | |
is 8:15pm local time here. A bad evening though. The Champions League | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
final taking place in the Berlin R Gelling -- Perlin and wonderful | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
scenes today there is the national team paraded the World Cup. -- as | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
the national team. Martin driving it forward. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Izaguirre. Mulgrew. Griffiths again. He looks | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
in the mood now. Ronny Deila standing in the | :22:39. | :22:59. | |
technical area, taking it all in. Tricky footwork therefrom Zato. | :23:00. | :23:12. | |
There -- there from Zato. A good second half for the Scottish | :23:13. | :23:38. | |
champions. Not a goal to show for it. | :23:39. | :24:07. | |
Celtic passing the ball quicker and a bit more aggressively, running a | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
bit more aggressively. Murrayfield, the scope -- home of Scottish rugby, | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
that will be the venue for the return. Griffiths. Good play. | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
Brilliant from Griffiths. Will you finish the match? He hasn't on this | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
occasion -- will he have the finish to match. Should they negotiate his | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
round, they would have to play at Murrayfield in the next qualifying | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
round, the third round, with the likes of Maribor, Helsinki, who they | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
played a couple of seasons ago and actually knocked out KR Reykjavik | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
before they played Celtic. Celtic could have been coming to Iceland a | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
couple of seasons ago after the draw was made. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Think that was for something after the incident. I think it was for | :25:07. | :25:19. | |
dissent. The referee has given the free kick and had something to say, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
and he is booked. Griffiths. Commons. Zato who was | :25:22. | :26:00. | |
relegated with another Reykjavik team last season. Brought straight | :26:01. | :26:26. | |
back into the top flight. The defence looks sturdier than last | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
week Retallick. The goals they were good finishes, but it defensively | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
wasn't too clever. Stokes hanging the ball up. Zato. Only half away. | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
That is a long ball, hopeful punt, or is there something in it towards | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Martin? Ambrose slams the door in the face of the Englishman. | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
The build-up play at Celtic had, the rhetoric formation is 6-to-1. Very | :27:06. | :27:24. | |
crowded -- the Reykjavik formation is six -numeric 2-1 - one. You want | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
to see them try and beat someone rather than pass through the crowded | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
area. Spooky is going to be on for Celtic | :27:32. | :28:17. | |
in a minute. Summoned by his Norwegian manager. -- Pukki is going | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
to be on. Griffiths, brilliant again from him. | :28:25. | :28:46. | |
Just overcooked it slightly. It has gone for a corner. Despite the | :28:47. | :28:56. | |
protests of Sigurd arson. Leigh Griffiths trying to get in behind | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
without passing the ball and putting them under a lot of pressure, but | :29:02. | :29:13. | |
good pressure from Griffiths. Mulgrew, bending it in. Stokes knew | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
exactly where the ball was. Lost track of the flight as a zipped over | :29:20. | :29:29. | |
his head. Another great delivery from Charlie Mulgrew. | :29:30. | :29:36. | |
track of the flight as a zipped over his head. Another great There will | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
be a double change for Celtic. The rector is coming on, and so is | :29:41. | :29:50. | |
Pukki. -- Richter -- Boerrigter. Ronny Deila is going to shake things | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
up a bit. In the meantime, Gary Martin. Trying to be way too clever | :29:55. | :30:08. | |
there. Fraser Forster has had pretty much nothing to do for the evening | :30:09. | :30:20. | |
so far. Finnbogason, who we have hardly mentioned in the second half. | :30:21. | :30:21. | |
Zato. The pass was poor, but it's over the | :30:22. | :30:31. | |
head of Johansen. Sigurdsson, poking it through. Martin was closed down | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
beautifully by Virgil van Dijk. The centre-half giving good cover and | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
clearing the danger. A little bit fortunate getting through on the | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
left-hand side. It broke off the edge of the box and got them in | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
behind the good cover from the centre-half. Ronny Deila telling the | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
fourth official to wait until the corner has been taken. That was how | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
it was one. And that is how it is taken. Headed away by van Dijk. That | :31:09. | :31:18. | |
is Forster's. He has done it quickly towards Griffiths. Good control from | :31:19. | :31:20. | |
Leigh Griffiths. That is causing KR Reykjavik all | :31:21. | :31:32. | |
sorts of trouble when they get Griffiths on the ball on the right | :31:33. | :31:45. | |
flank is acquire. -- on the right flank. Izaguirre. Lustig leaving it | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
for Johansen. Mulgrew. Lustig. Another corner. The thumbs | :31:52. | :32:09. | |
up from Ronny Deila. The changes will be made in a second or two. | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
Pukki and Boerrigter waiting patiently. | :32:18. | :32:29. | |
Boerrigter will come on for Griffiths, and he had been such a | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
danger on the right, but he has run his race. I think he has had a good | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
second half in particular. First, the understanding between him and | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
Lustig was not entirely working, but in the second half, they found him | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
more often and he looked a bit more aggressive and confident on the ball | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
and more prepared to get at them. On comes the Dutchman, Boerrigter, who | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
scored a Champions League goal for Ajax against Real Madrid. Stokes | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
comes. Replaced by Pukki, who scored a hat-trick in pre-season and is | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
also on the mark in the previous match. Robbie disappointed not to | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
start tonight. He is on now though. -- probably. As just over 15 minutes | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
to make an impression. Van Dijk was close. McGregor. Picked up on the | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
chest by Sigurdsson. disappointed to come off having not | :33:27. | :33:42. | |
scored. It is a European again and he wants to score goals and he has | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
not. The manager does not want people injured were overdoing it, | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
and rightly, because there is another game to come, and he will | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
probably get a goal in the second game. A thundering effort off the | :33:57. | :34:04. | |
bar earlier in the first half from Kris Commons. | :34:05. | :34:23. | |
Lustig. They are just doing enough, Reykjav?k, to keep the match | :34:24. | :34:35. | |
scoreless post up -- Reykjav?k. Celtic have to come here these days | :34:36. | :35:05. | |
if they want to get back to the big stage, the glamour of the Champions | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
League. He was always going to shoot and | :35:10. | :35:43. | |
MacGregor is there. The keeper has done well, spread himself and made a | :35:44. | :35:51. | |
save. The keeper makes a little bit much of it and makes a good save the | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
second time. A little bit wide and he is not able to get it into the | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
back of the net. It is encouraging for Celtic, I don't care that it is | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
0-0. At this stage of the game, it could get away from them. Celtic | :36:10. | :36:11. | |
could still live -- when this game. They will fancy that they can get at | :36:12. | :36:28. | |
least one away a goal from this match. A great ball in. McGregor | :36:29. | :36:39. | |
could not quite get it under control. At little bit of a surprise | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
stop a terrific ball. It might have done a little bit better. | :36:45. | :36:53. | |
It does not get art around these parts until about half past 11, | :36:54. | :37:06. | |
midnight. -- dark. A great ball in. A little header that hits him in the | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
chest. A little bit unfortunate for the -- unfortunate. 12 minutes to | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
go. Celtic lost last year to Barcelona. | :37:23. | :38:02. | |
The most disappointing performance was they want in Amsterdam, they | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
lost 6-1. Here comes Pukki. Leaving it for Izaguirre. Johansen. | :38:07. | :38:34. | |
Mulgrew. Izaguirre. Commons. MacGregor. Another corner. He has | :38:35. | :38:45. | |
made a difference since he came on. He has caused a little bit of a | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
problem for KR Reykjavik. A harmless pass. That was tired from | :38:48. | :39:06. | |
Kris Commons. He has been really active in the last 50 minutes. -- 15 | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
minutes. A little bit of a tired effort. Gary Martin is coming off. | :39:14. | :39:23. | |
The English striker. Very politico in the Middlesbrough youth team | :39:24. | :39:33. | |
pulls up -- very prolific in the Middlesbrough youth team. Perhaps he | :39:34. | :39:46. | |
can show what he can do. I think he did a decent job for his team. He | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
was isolated, particularly in the first half. Strikers want to score | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
goals come in so he will be disappointed. The rain is starting | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
to come down. It rained quite a bit in these parts. -- reigns. | :40:08. | :40:30. | |
There was no purchase in the six yard area. The substitute | :40:31. | :40:41. | |
Ragnarsson. A little bit of the flexion. -- the flexion. That would | :40:42. | :40:50. | |
have been some sucker punch for Celtic to take. The final eight | :40:51. | :41:03. | |
minutes now. Celtic are still sitting out a goal. They feel there | :41:04. | :41:12. | |
is one out there for them. An average from Boerrigter, tapped over | :41:13. | :41:23. | |
by Magnusson. Keeping the pressure on. You feel as if there is a goal | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
here for Celtic if they can keep pressing for this last bit of the | :41:28. | :41:36. | |
game. A Commons corner. Shot to Izaguirre. He has a good left foot | :41:37. | :41:50. | |
on him. Bailed out why Zato -- by Zato. McGregor for Commons and | :41:51. | :42:08. | |
Mulgrew. Izaguirre. Boerrigter. Mulgrew resists the shot. A couple | :42:09. | :42:20. | |
of bodies in the way. There is Boerrigter. Wave after wave at the | :42:21. | :42:30. | |
moment. Johansen, he is the latest to have a go. Same result. Ambrose | :42:31. | :42:45. | |
as well. A change of pace. It has gone in! What a moment that is! | :42:46. | :42:53. | |
Celtic absolutely deserved that, and what a moment it is for McGregor! | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
First competitive start, and he has slammed home a crucial away goal. | :43:02. | :43:09. | |
That is thoroughly deserved. Celtic worked hard for that goal. KR | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
Reykjavik have defended well. Look as though there is a bit of the | :43:17. | :43:22. | |
flexion. It goes back inside and off his left foot. Slightly deflected up | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
in the corner at the near post, a terrific growth for the young man in | :43:28. | :43:41. | |
his debut. -- goal. He was a bright light for Notts County. He is the | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
bright light of Celtic now, though I'll stop back from that letter | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
misspelled. -- though. Back from that loan spell. He has got some | :43:53. | :44:01. | |
terrific balls into the box. He has taken the ball to KR Reykjavik and | :44:02. | :44:14. | |
put pressure on from wide areas. KR Reykjavik are looking for an | :44:15. | :44:23. | |
immediate retaliation. 1-0 would do Celtic. They should have more than | :44:24. | :44:33. | |
the one, but they will take it. Prior to the goal, there were a | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
couple of blocks, people throwing themselves in front of the ball and | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
defending in numbers. Celtic have kept the resident. -- present. Chris | :44:44. | :44:51. | |
Commons has been involved in everything. Looked as though he was | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
getting tired but he kept the momentum going went forward -- and | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
want forward. The most sought after things in | :45:01. | :45:27. | |
European football, away goals will stop they can be a golden ticket, | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
and tonight, Celtic are finally making the breakthrough. | :45:32. | :45:52. | |
It is Lustig, but he was offside. I am delighted for the manager of | :45:53. | :46:02. | |
Celtic. It is important for them to have a | :46:03. | :46:04. |