Europe League's Playoff draw - Celtic FC vs FC Utrecht

The Bhoys can redeem themselves against Utrecht!

First Game at Celtic Park!

TQR - 2nd leg - Celtic's Pyrrhic victory at Paradise

Celtic, 2 SC Braga,1 (agg.2-4)

Very bad first half. Braga played very well and deserved the half time result.

In the second time, Celtic improved a lot when Marc-Antoine Fortuné came in.

It's impossible to recover from a 0-3 result, when you miss so many goal occasions!

We can see that the team is under a construction process. Of playing, a new players' adjustment...and it takes time.

Great effort from Samaras, sometimes with lack of lucidity. Juárez is a good player. Didn't like Charlie Mulgrew, or Celtic's defenders - lots of mistakes that could have been dramatic.

Now only one thought : Inverness

Celtic Lineup

Lukasz Zaluska;

Cha Du-Ri; Glenn Loovens, Jos Hooiveld and Charlie Mulgrew; (Marc-Antoine Fortuné)

Efrain Juárez, Scott Brown (Paddy McCourt) and Joe Ledley;

Georgios Samaras, Gary Hooper and Shaun Maloney (Daryl Murphy);

Gary Hooper and Efrain Juárez scored the goals

Non used subs - Cervi, Rogne, Rasmussen and Sung Yueng;

TQR - Celtic Park "Full House" expected

Champion's League 2011 - Third Qualifying Round

Sporting Clube Braga, 3 Celtic Football Club, 0 (

Goals: Alan (penalty), Echiejile and Matheus)

With such a result the Bhoys must play a wonderful match at Paradise (Celtic Park) to achieve Champion's League next stage.

It´s true it's Neil Lennon debut, the season just started and many new players came to the Hoops a few weeks ago, but the match was booked some months ago.

The squad neither reached a compact game,

nor a satisfactory pace, due to bad physical condition and many newcomers.

It will be a difficult match at Celtic Park, but Celtic won 3-0 at UEFA cups some other times!

Against portuguese teams

CL 2008 - against Benfica (1-0 / 0-1)

CL 2007 - against Benfica (3-0 / 0-3)

UE 2003 - against Boavista (1-1 / 1-0)

UC 1999 - against Guimarães (2-1 / 2-1)

UC 1984 - against Sporting CP (5-0 / 0-2)

CW 1976 - against Boavista (3-1 / 0-0)

CL 1970 - against Benfica (3-0 / 0-3)

UC 1965 - against Leixões (3-0 / 1-1)

Only for 3 times Celtic was in disadvantage with portuguese teams, FC Porto in UC final 2003 (2-3), FC Porto 2002 CL groups (1-0 / 0-3) and Sporting CP 1994 UC (1-0 / 0-2).

Celtic FC Line up at first leg

Lukasz Zaluska;

Cha Du-Ri, Jos Hooiveld, Glenn Loovens, Charlie Mulgrew;

Efrain Juárez (James Forrest), Scott Brown, Joe Ledley and Ki Sung Yueng;

Georgios Samaras and Shaun Maloney (Daryl Murphy);

CELTIC FC 2010-11 Team

Manager

Neil Lennon, former Celtic player - his first manager's season

Goalkeepers

Lukasz Zaluska (Poland, 28) - Dundee United (2009) - Poland's 3 caps .

Dominic Cervi (United States of America, 24) - Michigan Bucks (2009) - US under-23 : 2 caps

Defenders

Andreas Hinkel (Germany, 28) - Sevilla FC (2008) - Germany's 21 caps.

Cha Du-Ri (South Korea, 30) - Freiburg (2010) - South Korea's 50 caps.

Mark Wilson (Scotland, 26) - Dundee United (2006)

Jos Hooiveld (Netherlands, 27) - AIK Stockholm (2010)

Glenn Loovens (Netherlands, 27) - Cardiff City (2008)

Thomas Rogne (Norway, 20) - Stabaek (2010)

Darren O'Dea (Ireland, 23) - Celtic FC (2006) - Ireland's 2 caps

Joshua Thompson (England, 29) - Stockport (2009)

Charlie Mulgrew (Scotland, 24) - Aberdeen (2010)

Paul Caddis (Scotland, 22) - Celtic FC (2008)

Milan Misun (Czech Republic, 20) - Pribam (2009)

Midfielders

Scott Brown (Scotland, 25) - Hibernian (2007)

Marc Crosas (Spain, 22) - Barcelona (2008)

Joe Ledley (Wales, 23) - Cardiff City (2010) - Wales' 27 caps

Simon Ferry (Scotland, 22) - Celtic FC (2007)

Paddy McCourt (Nothern Ireland, 27) - Derry City (2008) - Nothern Ireland's 3 caps

Aiden McGeady (Ireland, 24) - Celtic FC (2004) - Ireland's 28 caps

Shaun Maloney (Scotland, 27) - Aston Villa (2008) / Celtic FC (2001) - Scotland's 14 caps

Efrain Juárez (Mexico, 22) - UNAM Pumas (2010) - Mexico's 21 caps

Ki Sung Yueng (South Korea, 21) - FC Seoul (2010) - South Korea's 23 caps

Beram Kayal (Israel, 22) - Maccabi Haifa (2010) - Israel's 13 caps

Niall McGinn (Nothern Ireland, 23) - Derry City (2008) - Northern Ireland's 6 caps

James Forrest (Scotland, 19) - Celtic FC (2009)

Fowards

Georgios Samaras (Greece, 25) - Manchester City (2008) - Greece's 35 caps

Gary Hooper (England, 22) - Scunthorpe (2010)

Daryl Murphy (Ireland, 27) - Sunderland (2010) - Ireland's 9 caps

Marc-Antoine Fortuné (France, 29) - Nancy (2009)

Ben Hutchinson (England, 23) - Middlesbrough (2008)

Paul McGowan (Scotland, 23) - Celtic FC (2007)

Cillian Sheridan (Ireland, 21) - Celtic FC (2007)

Morten Rasmussen (Denmark, 25) - Brondby (2010) - Denmark's 3 caps

Left the BHOYS

Artur Boruc (Goalkeeper) - Fiorentina

Edson Braafheid (Defender) - Bayern München

Landry N'Guemo (Midfielder) - Nancy

Robbie Keane (Foward) - Tottenham Hotspur

Lee Naylor (Defender)

Scott McDonald (Foward) - Middlesbrough

Diomansy Kamara (Foward) - Fulham

Koki Mizuno (Midfielder) - Kashiwa Reysol (Japan)

Zheng Zhi (Midfielder) - Guangzhou FC (China)

Daniel Lafferty (Defender) - Ayr United (loan)

Ryan Conroy (Midfielder) - Partick Thistle (loan)