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8¹ A good ball from SUCIC on the left fell to NKUNKU who sliced his shot just beyond the far post. 10¹ BAUMGARTNER shot over. 11¹ A lovely cross from XHAKA was placed goalbound by FÁBIO SILVA only for the 'keeper to palm clear. 13¹ A twenty yard shot from FÁBIO SILVA caused MESLIER no problem. 16¹ A poor strike from BAUMGARTNER trickled agonisingly wide. 19¹ NKUNKU stabbed an easy chance past the near post. 21¹ GOAL!! A thirty yard free-kick was skillfully fired into the net by MÜLDÜR. (1-0 Celtic) 25¹ ARÉOLA saved a clever strike from SCHLAGER. 29¹ A cynical foul gets TOMÁS ARAÚJO a yellow card. 37¹ GOAL!! TETÊ made space for BAUMGARTNER who, after an interchange of passes twenty-five yards out, glanced the ball past the Lens 'keeper. (2-0 Celtic) 39¹ SKÓRAS made space on the right and touched the ball to FÁBIO SILVA who clipped the ball wide. 0² KALIMUENDO waltzed past TETÊ and stroked a weak shot over the bar. 1² A free-kick from VANAKEN went just beyond the near post. 6² GOAL!! A neat one-two left EMBOLO clear and he made no mistake by flicking the ball beyond the oncoming Lens 'keeper. (3-0 Celtic) 13² NKUNKU was put clear by BAUMGARTNER and he nutmegged ARÉOLA but thrust his shot over. 14² A mix up in the Celtic defence enabled KALIMUENDO to crack the ball wide. 21² DE WINTER rushed an easy chance. 23² TETÊ beat four Lens players and thundered a shot just beyond the near post. 27² DE WINTER clipped the ball through a ruck of players but MESLIER was a match for it as he dived to his left. 32² EMBOLO ran onto a great ball from SUCIC but hit his shot wide of the righthand post. 34² SUCIC beat DE WINTER and placed the ball to EVERTON who fumbled his shot wide. 41² A good effort from BREKALO scraped the top of the crossbar.

Celtic   League position: 17 Home league form: XLXO Overall league form: WXXLLLXL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Illan MESLIER 7½ 1 7  Alphonse ARÉOLA Mert MÜLDÜR 7½ 2 7½ Koni DE WINTER (c)James MILNER 7½ 3 6½ Oleksandr ZINCHENKO Xaver SCHLAGER 5½ 4 7  Granit XHAKA(c) Chancel MBEMBA 7  5 6½ TOMÁS Lemos ARAÚJO Angelo OGBONNA 7  6 6½ Takehiro TOMIYASU TETÊ 6½ 7 6½ Yunus MUSAH Christoph BAUMGARTNER 7½ 8 5½ Hans VANAKEN (p)Breel-Donald EMBOLO 6½ 9 6  Arnaud KALIMUENDO(p) (f)Luka SUCIC 7½ 10 5½ Michal SKÓRAS(f) Christopher NKUNKU 7  11 6  FÁBIO Daniel SILVA Manager Amine GOUIRI    12    Anton KADE Salvatore SIRIGU    13    PAU LÓPEZ Sabata Nathan PATTERSON    14    Yari VERSCHAEREN Josip BREKALO 6  15    Elias CABRERA EVERTON Sousa 6  16 6  José GAYÁ

Lens   League position: 15 Away league form: LXXW Overall league form: LWLLXXXW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Celtic 3 Lens 0 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 37,543, Stadium: Celtic Park, Referee: Gerd Grabher 5½) Müldür 21¹, Baumgartner 37¹, Embolo 6² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   SchlageróEverton 29², TetêóBrekalo 37² XhakaóGayá 39²       Tomás Araújo 29¹ 4 1 1 19 7 3 4 4 13 6 17 10 1 4 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Mert Müldür ¶