A sucker punch against Lazio leaves the Scottish champions with an uphill battle to reach the knockout stage.
This never ending hard luck story is starting to wear a bit thin for Alistair Johnston’s liking. Yes, Celtic may have traded blows with Lazio under the lights on Wednesday and came within a brush of Daizen Meada’s sock of flooring the Italians with a knock-out blow.
“They’re the team that scored more than us and that’s the brutal honesty about football. I do feel there were really good spells for us, especially in the second half when we looked really comfortable. “We really felt like we were in the ascendancy and potentially could have had a winner that was chopped off. But that’s football. We need to learn from that and build on it.”
“The Champions League is all about moments. There’s too much quality on the pitch and you have a moment where you make a mental error and these teams are so good that they will punish you. Boss Brendan Rodgers has his own theory which, the more often he repeats it, the deeper it resonates. To thrive at this level, any team requires the kind of match winning quality which former Barcelona striker Pedro provided in the closing moments, after Cameron Carter-Vickers had been robbed of possession deep inside his own half.
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