00:00A really disappointing night for Celtic tonight here at Celtic Park as they lose 2-0 to Braga in the Europa League in their opening home game of the competition.
00:09A point last week at Red Star Belgrade was seen as a good point and rightly so, but tonight they were just not at the races.
00:15The first 20 minutes you could say they were in the ascendancy, they looked like the team that wanted to open the scoring,
00:20but some sloppy possession play from goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel gave Braga the impetus and out of sort of nowhere at one point,
00:29shot from I think it was 33 yards out or so, goes straight into the middle of the goal to be honest.
00:36A long range strike, but it's one way Kasper Schmeichel needs to be doing better, you'll be disappointed in that.
00:42He said as much afterwards to be completely honest, but that rocked Celtic, I think it was a bit of a lulled atmosphere tonight in Celtic Park.
00:49I think it's fair to say that the fans don't want to be in this competition and feel they can achieve more,
00:54but at the same time, you know, it's a chance to maybe win another competition, do well in Europe again,
01:00but there's almost a feeling of frustration and anger.
01:03Of course, there was the protest planned for tonight, which has been shelved after discussions with the Celtic hierarchy,
01:09something that Brendan Rodgers asked, sort of was pleaded with, to sort of not happen.
01:14But look, I'll be honest, the atmosphere wasn't great tonight and there was a feeling of sort of a grumble when that first goal went in
01:20and Celtic never really recovered. I thought Sebastian Tonechti was excellent.
01:25He did try to get Celtic going, but there were just far too many players on the pitch that really weren't showing up
01:30and weren't playing to the standards that I think many people have come to expect.
01:34And I think the talking point would be Kelechi and Nash showed this loud goal.
01:39I've watched it three or four times since the final whistle. I still don't really see the handball.
01:43Maybe there's an angle I haven't seen yet, but I can't understand how Boaz ruled it out.
01:48And, you know, to say that Celtic do equalise in that, I think it was the 51st minute,
01:52then the game's maybe a little bit different.
01:54But it's something that didn't get given, it was ruled out, much to the frustration of the Celtic players,
02:00the Celtic fans and, of course, Brendan Rodgers, who spoke about after the game
02:03and doesn't really understand why it was given either.
02:05But when the second goal came on later on in 84 minutes to see the win for Braga,
02:11it kind of summed up a night for Celtic that's going to have to be forgot about very quickly
02:16with Motherwell coming up on Sunday.
02:19But a disappointing night for Celtic.
02:20They're in 27th place at the time of speaking in the Europa League
02:23with just one point from their first two games.
02:25They'll be hoping for a better performance when they welcome Sturm Graz here
02:29on the 23rd of October in the same competition.
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