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Trivia
- Jock Stein took a party of 16 players to Copenhagen for the tie including Davie Hay, Jim Brogan and Harry Hood. The party left Glasgow on the Tuesday afternoon.
- The team was announced on the day of the game. Evan Williams was dropped from the side paying the penalty of lapses at Ibrox. David Hay and Jim Brogan were also 'rested' and in came the old pairing of Jim Craig and Tommy Gemmell at full backs.
- Big crowd turns out to watch Celtic train on the day before the game.B1903 were a team of part-timers despite being chamipions of Denmark
- Celtic sensationally beaten by the part time Danes.
- Stein fuming at lacklustre performance. Celtic were 10/1 ON to win !
- Gordon Marshall snr makes a rare appearance in the Celtic goal, his only major competitive match.
- Celtic played in green socks.
- Copenhagen goalie Birger Jensen played for FC Bruges in the 1978 European cup final at Wembley against Liverpool. Kenny Dalglish scored the winner that night.
- The Celtic party headed back to Glasgow immediately after the game arriving back home on the Thursday morning at 2:00 am. They were back training for the Morton game in the morning.
Review
Celtic turned in a mediocre performance in Copenhagen and no matter how hard they tried they could not get going. Johnstone was so bad he was subbed at half time and only Murdoch and Macari were in the usual gear.
Evan Williams was dropped after his lapses at Ibrox with veteran Gordon Marshall given a rare outing after being given a free by Hibs in the summer.
The Danes managed to slow the pace of the game to what they wanted and the Celtic players went along with it in the first half. Copenhagen scored in 13 minutes after Johansen had been set up by Mathieson and scored with a fine shot. Macari then equalised after a great run and cross by Callaghan. Johansen scored again from a good cross by Nielsen and then Celtic piled on the pressure with Dalglish going close and Jensen making a great save from Murdoch's powerful shot.
In the second half Wallace livened the Celtic attack and Macari twice headed narrowly over before Callaghan shot wide with Celtic's last effort.
Stein reckoned this was Celtic's worst ever performance in European competition.
Teams
1903:
Jensen, Nielsen, Petersen, Westergaard, Anderssen, Sjolbberg, Thygesssen, Mathiesen, Forrsing, Aabling, Johansen .
Scorers: Johansen 2 (13, 24)
Celtic:
Marshall, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Connelly, Johnstone (Wallace 46), Dalglish, Macari, Callaghan, Lennox. Substitutes: Williams, Hughes
Scorer: Macari (20)
Referee: E. Bergstad (Norway)
Attendance: 6,600
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Evening Times 16th September 1971
