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Trivia
- Celtic took a party of 17 to Yugoslavia for this tie. These included Fallon, Cattanach, O’Neill, Brogan, Wallace and Gallacher.
- Willie Wallace was tied for this game as he had not been registered as a Celtic player in time. This was a 6:30pm kick off under floodlights. The Yugoslavs had had teams of electricians and fitters working to fit a new floodlighting system for the game. Celtic players later claim the Vojvodina floodlights are the best they have ever experienced.
- Prior to the game Vojvodina were playing the mind games and reckoned they had no chance of beating Celtic. Then the coach reversed his mind and said Vojvodina would win by 2 goals.
- 5000 Slavs turn out to watch Celtic training sessions including the Vojvodina manager Boskov who travelled 30 miles on the night before the game just to watch Celtic train.
- Celtic players ordered by Stein to stay in bed until lunch time on day of game to conserve energy.
- For the game Celtic arrived with Jimmy Johnstone carrying an injury from Saturday’s game against Stirling Albion. After physio in Yugoslavia he made the game. In too was Bobby Lennox. The team was kept secret until arrival at the stadium on the day of the game.
- Vojvodina had two of their stars, Trivic and Pusibrk, banned for the game having been sent off in the previous replay against Atletico Madrid. Also their star centre forward from previous rounds had just been transferred to Stade Rennais in France.
- Inter Milan knocked out Real Madrid in the Bernabeau on this night.
Review
There were injury doubts regarding Jimmy Johnstone but the wee man took his place on the Celtic right wing at kick off.
For 45 minutes Celtic were brilliant in defence as they soaked up massive periods of pressure from the big strong Slav side. The defence was so good that Simpson had barely a save to make all game and Vojvodina were reduced to shooting from distance.
Celtic were angry when the referee refused to stop the game to allow treatment for the injured Murdoch who was on the ground for some time.
After half time Celtic became more adventurous and Auld gave Lennox the chance to shoot only for Pantelic to make a fine save. Shortly after McNeill went on a run and shot just wide of the goal.
Vojvodina’s goal was a tragedy for the hard working Gemmell when he shanked a pass to Clark which allowed Stanic a chance to beat Simpson from close in – the one breakdown in an otherwise outstanding defensive night.
Celtic held out against further pressure with McNeill having a magnificent game in defence. Boskov was somewhat underwhelmed by his team’s performnance without admitting it upfront. A one goal advantage was all thery would take to Celtic Park and Celtic had the wherewithal to reverse that in the return leg.
Teams
Vojvodina:
Pantelic Aleksic Radovic Brzic Nesticki Dakic Sekeres Rakic Radoslav Dordic Stanic
Scorer: Stanic 69
Celtic:
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Johnstone, Lennox, Chalmers, Auld, Hughes.
Scorers:
Referee: P Schiller (Austria)
Attendance: 24,000
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