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Trivia
- Celtic renew their rivalry with Dynamo after their games in 1966 and 1968.
- All ticket game.
- Dynamo have 9 of the Russian 1986 world cup team in their side.
- Dynamo are current ECWC holders.
- Tommy Burns broke an ankle.
- On the following day Celtic lost 2-0 to Aberdeen in a Reserve League match at Celtic Park. The Celtic team was Latchford, Traynor, McGee, Baillie, McGugan, O'Leary, McGuire, W. McStay, Fraser, Rogan, Archdeacon. Sub Kean. Wright scored both Aberdeen goals.
Review
Tommy Burns was brutally tackled by Zavarov and was taken off injured. He would be out for 6 months.
Dynamo are a superb side but Johnston's late goal keeps them in the tie.
Teams
CELTIC: P Bonner; P Grant, T Burns (M McGhee 21), R Aitken, D Whyte, M MacLeod, B McClair, P McStay, M Johnston, T Shepherd, A McInally Subs: Latchford W McStay McGugan Archdeacon
Goal: Johnston 80
DYNAMO KIEV: V Chanov; V Bessonov, V Gorili, O Kuznetzov, A Demyanenko, V Ratz, P Yakovenko, A Bal, A Zavarov, V Yevtushenko, I Belanov.
Goal: Yevtushenko 18
Referee: E Aladren (Spain)
Attendance: 48,000
Articles
- Match Report(See Below)
Pictures
Articles
Evening Times 23rd October 1986
Football Yevtushenko pens a Scots elegy on Burns's off nightTimes, The (London, England)
October 23, 1986
Author: DAVID MILLER
Estimated printed pages: 3
Celtic …………… 1 Dynamo Kiev ………. 1
Was this not the team which could have won the World Cup? There were moments when Valeri Lobanovski's Kiev, most of whom had trounced Hungary and matched France in Mexico, suggested that nothing will stop them being the Soviet Union's first winners of the European Cup.
Yet Celtic, playing with much of that old persistence, speed and determination which won them the trophy 20 years ago, came back from a goal down to keep this marvellous second-round tie stridently alive for the second leg.
For 10 minutes or so at the start it seemed that David Hay's bold policy of sending out his men to attack what is probably the best team in Europe was about to pay dividends. Kiev are not accustomed to having two or three forwards hurtling at them simultaneously, sometimes in random fashion with no more idea about what may happen than the defenders have themselves.
McClair, Johnston and McInally were individually and occasionally collectively dangerous. In the sixth minute Johnston headed down a high ball and McInally, having momentarily switched from left to right, hit a first-time shot on a bouncing ball against the right-hand angle of the post.
The crowd, somewhat less than the 60,000 expected, hurled out their encouragement and two minutes later, from McInally's cross from the line on the left, McClair shot past the far post with Kiev in momentary panic. Demyanenko, Bal and Gorili, the markers playing in front of the sweeper Bessonov, were having to work assiduously to hold Celtic's three attackers, and they started to dish out some hefty treatment, including a nasty foul by Bal on Burns in the thirteenth minute.
This treatment took the sting out of Celtic and in the seventeenth minute Kiev went ahead, having been threatening trouble in a succession of lightning moves in the previous couple of minutes. It was, however, a tame goal, several defenders on the near post totally misjudging a corner by Demyanenko and Bonner in goal failing to make a simple interception. Yevtushenko was left with the easiest shot.
Minutes later Burns was obliged to leave the field with an injury. Hay's substitution of McGhee, the former Aberdeen forward, may have added to the team's attacking potential but was at the expense of making two additional positional changes, McLeod switching from midfield to left back and McClair to midfield, disrupting his partnership with Johnston. Was this sensible? Celtic had lost some of their early momentum and Kiev proceeded to show us the full range of their talents. Their team included seven of the national team which had beaten France in Paris recently and their first-time passing and use of angles was an exhilarating sight.
Repeatedly they glided past Celtic's defence and looked likely to score further goals but somehow Celtic kept their heads and stood firm. McGhee, bursting through on to a loose ball, was unlucky not to have equalized as he blasted a shot that hit a defender.
Three minutes before half-time McInally had a half-chance when juggling with a difficult cross that came to him on the half-volley on the far post but as the interval arrived Kiev were going forward again, Demyanenko launching himself once more from defence into attack to attempt a glancing header.
Early in the second half, with Celtic still taking the risk of throwing their forces forward at every opportunity, Johnston headed a high ball over Chanov, the goalkeeper, only to see it bounce clear off the foot of a post. Kiev were beginning to labour under the weight of Celtic's physical persistence. McClair hooked a shot straight at Chanov.
Kiev continued to try to sit on their slender lead and with just under 10 minutes to go Celtic were rewarded. MacLeod crossed from the left, Johnston met the ball at the far post, hammered a shot which Chanov parried shoulder high and on the rebound Johnston lashed the ball into the roof of the net. It was no less than Celtic deserved.
CELTIC: P Bonner; P Grant, T Burns (sub: M McGhee), R Aitken, D Whyte, M MacLeod, B McClair, P McStay, M Johnston, T Shepherd, A McInally.
DYNAMO KIEV: V Chanov; V Bessonov, V Gorili, O Kuznetzov, A Demyanenko, V Ratz, P Yakovenko, A Bal, A Zavarov, V Yevtushenko, I Belanov.
Referee: E Aladren (Sp).