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Trivia
- Celtic travelled to Mostar via Dubrovnik.
- Game played in neutral Gradski stadium in Mostar on UEFA instruction after crowd trouble the previous season.
- Game played in torrential rain after temperatures had been in the 80's.
- 1000 Celtic fans travelled to Mostar.
Review
In 10 minutes Partizan were dealt a blow when goalkeeper Omerovic was injured after a challenge by Anton Rogan.
In 15 minutes Zupic was lucky to remain on the park after a shocking tackle on Burns. He was the first of four Partizan players to be booked on the night.
Partizan scored in 20 when they hit Celtic on the break after Dziekanowski's slack pass to Burns was intercepted and Miloyevic ran on to finish well. Partizan then missed two great chances which they should have scored with as Celtic were rocking.
Celtic improved after half time and Galloway, who had just been booked, scored an excellent goal when he hooked in Coyne's knock down from Morris's cross.
Duredevic gave the Slavs the lead with a fine shot and late in the game Celtic had a good penalty claim when Dziekanowski was fouled in the area.
Teams
FK PARTIZAN BELGRADE: Omerović (Panaurivić10); Zupić, Milanić, Spasić, Petrić, Vuyacić, Đorjević, Miloyević, Đuredević, Durovski, Bogdanović (Pantic 70) Subs: Bajovic Militic Scepovic.
Scorers: Miloyević (20), Duredević (53)
CELTIC: P Bonner; C Morris, A Rogan, R Aitken, D Whyte, P Grant, M Galloway, P McStay, D Dziekanwski (A Walker 62), T Coyne, T Burns Subs: Andrews McCahill Fulton Miller.
Scorer: Galloway (42)
Referee: H Kohl (Austria).
Att: 15,000
Stadion Gradski, Mostar
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Articles
Evening Times 13th September 1989
"Galloway gives Celtic cause for optimism"
The Times (London, England) (Sept 13, 1989)
Partizan Belgrade 2 Celtic 1
Mike Galloway, whose goal here last season helped Heart of Midlothian secure a UEFA Cup quarter-final place against Bayern Munich, may have ensured the advance of Celtic in this season's European Cup Winners' Cup with another invaluable goal, in yesterday's first round, first leg against Partizan Belgrade. In an often cynical, always physical game, the muscular Galloway was well equipped to survive and prosper. Five players were booked, including four Yugoslavs, and one could not help thinking that Partizans' intimidatory behaviour was an unwise choice. It sadly betrayed the greater skills elsewhere in a side boasting seven full internationals, despite the summer exodus of a similar number. It was from a foul on Coyne that the Scots scored the goal that provides them with that vital extra insurance for the second leg, at Parkhead, in a fortnight. It could hardly have come at a more hurtful time for the Yugoslavs, three minutes before the interval. When Morris took the free kick, Coyne was there to head back at the far post for Galloway the only Scottish booking to hook the ball past Panaurivic, a substitute goalkeeper. Galloway, who was born in Oswestry and began his professional career with Halifax Town, scored five for Hearts in Europe last season and could become Celtic's talisman. It would seem that Partizan had misjudged the region of Mostar, both its nationalistic fervour and its weather. They had been forced to play this tie at least 300km from Belgrade, after crowd disturbances in a UEFA Cup tie last season many more of the fireworks that they fired during this tie and they could end up playing in Greece next season. The choice of Mostar this time was less than inspired, since they had mercilessly beaten the local side 6-1, in the Cup Final which earned them their presence here. The cool reception they received from the locals was not the only one for them. Half an hour before kick-off, a torrential downpour brought the temperature down several degrees; Partizan had been hoping that the humidity and heat would help them overwhelm the Scots. But in the event, Celtic found neither the weather nor the heavy pitch particularly alien to them. That was not all that rebounded on the injudicious Yugoslavs. If they were looking to upset the Scots with Milanic's cynical second-minute foul on Coyne, they succeeded. From the free kick, Rogan went charging into the goalkeeper, with the ball, one felt, of secondary importance. Omerovic, the country's No.2 goalkeeper, came away from the challenge holding his arm and five minutes later, left the field to take no further part in the proceedings. But Celtic, despite more than their fair share of possession, created little to trouble the substitute goalkeeper, who was making his debut for the club. It was from a Celtic attack which Partizan went ahead in the 20th minute. A ball played behind his forwards by Dziekanwski was picked up by the Yugoslavs and moved briskly upfield by Miloyevic. With Celtic still numerically strong enough to resist the break, Miloyevic strolled through a thinly-disguised defence to strike a low shot past Bonner. Partizan might have seriously worsened Celtic's position had Dorjevic not hoisted a marvellous opportunity over the crossbar, after Duredevic had successfully put Rogan off his stroke with an elbow in the ear. If Partizan cursed their luck then, they were beside themselves with grief when Durovski scooped over the top with Bonner yards from his station, after failing to make a connecting tackle on Bogdanovic. Celtic's equalizer only further depressed them but they lifted themselves sufficiently after half-time to regain the lead in the 53rd minute, when Duredevic spun to shoot past Bonner. Strangely, the Yugoslavs continued to be preoccupied with the physical rather than the finesse and might even have conceded a penalty late in the game when Dziekanwski was unceremoniously flattened in the area.