2018-09-19: Celtic 1-0 Rosenborg, UEFA Cup

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Trivia

  • Europa League Matchday 1
  • Round 1 8pm KO;
  • Late win for Celtic with Griffiths nicking it.
  • Ajer out injured. Sevco drew their game 2-2. Red Bull double header, with RB Salzburg beating RB
  • Leipzig 3-2, so Salzburg top on goals scored in the group.
  • First time Celtic won an opening group stage game!
  • Storm Ali – the first of the autumn – battered a swathe of central Scotland with winds up to 80mph.
    Former Scottish FA president George Peat has claimed the chairman of a club urged him not to help
  • Rangers at the tail end of the 2007/08 season. They won the Scottish League Cup, and hoped to win the Scottish Premier League title and the Scottish Cup, while advancing to the UEFA Cup final. Celtic won the league fair and square, this is all a joke.
  • A sheriff has deserted the trial of nine Celtic supporters charged with hanging effigies at match with Sevco in 2016.Sheriff Allan Findlay hit out at prosecutors for not giving defence lawyers “full disclosure” of available evidence. The fans were charged after a league match at Parkhead in September 2016, which Celtic won 5-1. The accusations centred on effigies and a banner and were said to be “threatening and offensive”. Regardless, those effigies were a disgrace and should never have been put up, and are not reflective of the attitude of the vast Celtic support.
  • Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell has insisted the champions remain committed to strengthening their playing squad but “hyperinflation” in the transfer market makes it increasingly problematic.The release of Celtic’s annual accounts have revealed the club achieved record revenue of £101.6 million in the 12 months to 30 June this year, largely as a consequence of a second consecutive season in the group stage of the Champions League. £17m pre-tax profit as revenue, costs and liabilities increase

Review

(Williebhoy of KDS)Celtic 1 Rosenberg 0

We were taking 10 – 15 passes to reach the halfway line, no striker will score goals with such a SLOW build up…not like our midfield is creating barrowloads of chances themselves.
McGregor makes much the same runs as Rogic….most of our decent play comes from the full backs which makes me ask WHY we need two wide players who are not going forward. Both Forrest & Sinclair when he came
predominantly stood their ground taking the ball with their back to play and laying backwards. At least show the intellingence to come short or spin in behind at pace. Our lack of movement up front should be tempered with the mdifield not picking out runners so looks like they have given up looking. The balance isn't right and BR needs to sort it out. Overall though a very good result against a side on a long unbeaten run, top of the Norwegian league, brimming with confidence… compare that to Villareal – fighting relegation, playing fringe players and yet snatching a draw is seen as a tremendous result !! I know who the tougher opponent was last night and we should give the team credit for ensuring they had zero shots at goal…5 x clean sheets for the much maligned defence….Huge task to get another in Salzburg but here's hoping.

Teams

Celtic

  • 1Gordon
  • 23Lustig
  • 20Boyata
  • 32Benkovic
  • 63Tierney
  • 8Brown
  • 49ForrestSubstituted forJohnstonat 58'minutes
  • 18RogicSubstituted forSinclairat 58'minutes
  • 21Ntcham
  • 42McGregor
  • 22EdouardSubstituted forGriffithsat 76'minutes

Substitutes

  • 4Hendry
  • 9Griffiths
  • 11Sinclair
  • 17Christie
  • 27Mulumbu
  • 29Bain
  • 73Johnston
Goals
  • Griffiths (87' minutes)

Rosenborg

  • 1Hansen
  • 2Hedenstad
  • 16Hovland
  • 4Reginiussen
  • 3Meling
  • 5Denic
  • 7Jensen
  • 8KonradsenSubstituted forLundemoat 45+1'minutes
  • 11de LanlaySubstituted forTrondsenat 69'minutes
  • 14SøderlundBooked at 59minsSubstituted forLeviat 78'minutes
  • 27JebaliBooked at 15mins

Substitutes

  • 10Vilhjálmsson
  • 15Trondsen
  • 17Levi
  • 20Gersbach
  • 24Østbø
  • 25Lundemo
  • 26Serbecic
Referee:Pawel Gil
Attendance:47,287

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Celtic
Rosenborg

Possession
Home64%
Away36%

Shots
Home13
Away4

Shots on Target
Home7
Away0

Corners
Home8
Away1

Fouls
Home9
Away10

Articles

Celtic 1-0 Rosenborg: Leigh Griffiths secures dramatic win
Celtic's Leigh Griffiths celebrates his late winner. Picture: Rob Casey/SNS
Celtic's Leigh Griffiths celebrates his late winner. Picture: Rob Casey/SNS
Stephen Halliday
https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/celtic/celtic-1-0-rosenborg-leigh-griffiths-secures-dramatic-win-1-4803316
Having been warned by Brendan Rodgers he still has much to do in order to be regarded as Celtic’s No 1 striker, Leigh Griffiths stepped off the bench to secure a dramatic but deserved winning start for his side in Group B of the Europa League.

Griffiths’ late intervention ensured Celtic were not frustrated by a gritty but unremarkable Rosenborg side who failed to force Craig Gordon into a single save. It was something of a landmark victory for the Scottish champions. In their 14 previous group stage campaigns in European football, either in the Champions League or Europa League, they had never before won their matchday one fixture.

There is little these two sides can come up with to surprise each other, having now been drawn together three times in just over a year in European competition. That sense of familiarity was perhaps a telling factor in a contest which occasionally flickered but never truly sparked into life. While Rosenborg’s approach was a defensively diligent one for most of the evening, the visitors were not entirely without ambition.

There was some early aggression from Rini Coolen’s side whose captain Mike Jensen, as he has in the previous clashes with Celtic, consistently caught the eye. The Danish midfielder saw a shot blocked by Dedryck Boyata as Rosenborg attempted to open up on the front foot.

Celtic secured the lion’s share of possession soon enough but too often were unable to find the tempo necessary to make it count. There was an anxious moment for the hosts in the 15th minute when Issam Jebali outpaced Mikael Lustig down the left and burst into the area. The Tunisian winger went down as Lustig scrambled back to cover the threat but Rosenborg’s claims for a penalty were correctly turned down by Polish referee Pawel Gil who booked Jebali for 
simulation.

Seven minutes later, Celtic finally posted their first serious attempt at goal when Kieran Tierney forced a corner on the left. Callum McGregor swung it in to find Filip Benkovic at the far post but the on-loan Leicester City defender’s header was comfortably held by Andre Hansen.

It kick-started Celtic’s first sustained period of pressure on the Rosenborg goal and Odsonne Edouard might have done better than blaze a shot over from around 12 yards after he had been played in by Tom Rogic’s through ball.

Tierney and McGregor then linked superbly to set Olivier Ntcham free on the left side of the penalty area but the French midfielder’s low cross was cut out by the alert figure of Anders Konradsen.

Having talked up the Europa League so passionately in the build-up to the match, Tierney matched his words with the commitment of his work. The left-back was Celtic’s biggest attacking threat and he whipped an inviting ball right across the six-yard box only to find none of his team-mates had reacted quickly enough to get on the end of it.

Tierney continued to try to drive Celtic on, fizzing in a low shot from 22 yards which Hansen gathered. Three minutes before half-time, the Rosenborg keeper defied Celtic with a superb double save.

Tierney was the source of the move once more, finding Rogic just inside the area. The Australian playmaker’s first shot was blocked before his follow-up effort was parried low to his right by Hansen. The ball broke to Edouard on the corner of the six-yard box but the striker drove his shot too close to Hansen who was able to divert it on to his right-hand post and behind for a corner.

Rosenborg were forced into a change on the stroke of half-time with the influential Konradsen limping off to be replaced by Marius Lundemo but there was no doubt the visitors were the more content as they headed into the dressing room.

Celtic looked to up the pace, as they clearly needed to, after the break and Rogic wasted a glorious opportunity to make the breakthrough when he pounced on Lundemo’s error and surged clear through the middle. He had the choice of passes to Edouard or McGregor either side of him but opted to attempt a shot himself which he could only direct straight at the grateful Hansen.
Leigh Griffiths leads training at Celtic Park on Wednesday ahead of the Europa League tie in Austria against Salzburg. Picture: SNS
Brendan Rodgers says Celtic must exploit Salzburg frailty at back

Rodgers decided a double change was in order as the stalemate continued, introducing Scott Sinclair and Mikey Johnston for Rogic and Forrest just before the hour mark. The substitutes almost made a dramatic impact, young winger Johnston’s cross from the right picking out Sinclair who volleyed just wide of Hansen’s right-hand post.

Rodgers made his final switch, Edouard making way for Griffiths who duly seized his chance to make a crucial impact. With 87 minutes on the clock, Scott Brown’s long ball was nodded on by Boyata for the Scotland striker to steer a header beyond Hansen from close range.

BBC
Leigh Griffiths headed in with three minutes left against Rosenborg to give a wasteful Celtic their first European group stage home win in 11 games.
Brendan Rodgers' hosts were blunt for much of this Europa League contest, Odsonne Edouard, Tom Rogic and Mikey Johnston all spurning chances.
But substitute Griffiths was deadly, racing into the box and nodding home.
It was the Scottish champions' first group triumph since beating Astra of Romania in 2014.
And it was Celtic's second win over Rosenborg this season, having beaten them at Celtic Park in the Champions League qualifiers before being knocked out by AEK Athens.
Celtic now travel to face Red Bull Salzburg, who beat RB Leipzig 3-2 on Thursday, in their second Group B fixture.

Familiar forward bails Celtic out

When Rosenborg came to Glasgow in July, they departed after a 3-1 defeat that could have been heavier. Since then, they have had a renaissance, playing 10 and winning nine while scoring 24 goals.
They had a promising beginning on Thursday – Issam Jebali got booked for simulation in the penalty area when Mikael Lustig's challenge might have led to an altogether different outcome – but after 20 minutes or so Celtic pushed them back and took ownership of the game.
The outstanding Kieran Tierney led the charge up the left but, for all their possession, Celtic couldn't carve out many chances. Rogic had a shot saved by Andre Hansen, who then jumped to his feet to push Edouard's follow-up on to a post.
Edouard – only one goal in seven games now – should have scored. Rodgers went with the Frenchman from the start, but it was a familiar Scot who bailed him out at the finish.
That miss came not long before the break. Not long after it, Rogic went through and had options left and right but chose his own road – the wrong one – and blasted straight at Hansen.
In an effort to inject pace and tempo, the kind of relentless energy Celtic at their best play with, Rodgers brought on Scott Sinclair for Rogic and Johnston for James Forrest, but that didn't do the trick either.
Celtic were unconvincing. They had a chance, created, inevitably, by Tierney, but Johnston scooped it over from close range.
Then, just when the faithful's frustration was beginning to turn into resignation, Griffiths, from a nod down by Dedryck Boyata, nipped in to put a downward header past Hansen.
That was the Scotland striker's 101st goal for Celtic. Maybe it was the one that makes him first-choice again too.

'Celtic still awaiting thunderclap display' – analysis

After a poor performance against St Mirren on Friday, there was supposed to be a response from Celtic here, a thunderclap showing that reminded everybody of their threat.
It didn't come, but the bottom line was enough on the night. Against the fourth seed in their group, they had to win. Thanks to Griffiths, they did. Just.
Celtic are excellent when their tempo is high and their runners are relentless. Only in tiny pockets did they bear a passing resemblance to their better selves. Griffiths, not for the first time, was the difference.
He's had to be patient. He's had multi-million pound French strikers ahead of him in the pecking order. He's had to listen to his manager talking publicly about the things he needs to do to start the big games. Griffiths soaked up all of that and when he was needed, he delivered.
Griffiths may not be worth the £19.7m Lyon paid Celtic for Moussa Dembele, or the record fee the Scottish champions forked out for Edouard, but he was the only one with the solution last night.

Match stats

  • Rodgers registered his second group stage win with Celtic in European competition (D3 L8), ending a run of four successive defeats
  • Excluding qualifiers, Celtic didn't allow a single shot on target against them in European competition for the first time since September 2008 against Aalborg BK
  • Celtic's last eight goals in the Europa League have been scored by Scottish players – of their previous 28, only six came from Scots
  • Rosenborg have conceded at least once in each of their 25 Europa League games
Match ends, Celtic 1, Rosenborg 0.

Full Time

Second Half ends, Celtic 1, Rosenborg 0.

Goal!

Goal! Celtic 1, Rosenborg 0. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dedryck Boyata with a headed pass.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Vegar Hedenstad.
Attempt missed. Tore Reginiussen (Rosenborg) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Vegar Hedenstad with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Issam Jebali (Rosenborg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Michael Johnston (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.

Substitution

Substitution, Rosenborg. Jonathan Levi replaces Alexander Søderlund.
Attempt missed. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Olivier Ntcham.
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexander Søderlund (Rosenborg).

Substitution

Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Odsonne Edouard.
Offside, Rosenborg. Mike Jensen tries a through ball, but Issam Jebali is caught offside.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Even Hovland.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Marius Lundemo.

Substitution

Substitution, Rosenborg. Anders Trondsen replaces Yann-Erik de Lanlay.
Attempt missed. Issam Jebali (Rosenborg) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Michael Johnston with a cross.
Offside, Celtic. Kieran Tierney tries a through ball, but Scott Sinclair is caught offside.

Booking

Alexander Søderlund (Rosenborg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alexander Søderlund (Rosenborg).

Substitution

Substitution, Celtic. Michael Johnston replaces James Forrest.

Substitution

Substitution, Celtic. Scott Sinclair replaces Tomas Rogic.
Foul by Olivier Ntcham (Celtic).
Issam Jebali (Rosenborg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Odsonne Edouard.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Mike Jensen (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexander Søderlund (Rosenborg).
Foul by Callum McGregor (Celtic).
Marius Lundemo (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Djordje Denic (Rosenborg).

Second Half

Second Half begins Celtic 0, Rosenborg 0.

Half Time

First Half ends, Celtic 0, Rosenborg 0.

Substitution

Substitution, Rosenborg. Marius Lundemo replaces Anders Konradsen.
Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic).
Birger Meling (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Anders Konradsen (Rosenborg) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.
Foul by Filip Benkovic (Celtic).
Djordje Denic (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by André Hansen.
Attempt saved. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Vegar Hedenstad.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Djordje Denic (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Olivier Ntcham.
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Djordje Denic (Rosenborg).
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Birger Meling (Rosenborg).
Foul by Dedryck Boyata (Celtic).
Alexander Søderlund (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Celtic. Filip Benkovic tries a through ball, but Odsonne Edouard is caught offside.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Anders Konradsen.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Even Hovland.
Attempt blocked. Issam Jebali (Rosenborg) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alexander Søderlund.
Foul by Olivier Ntcham (Celtic).
Yann-Erik de Lanlay (Rosenborg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Tomas Rogic with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Filip Benkovic (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Callum McGregor with a cross.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Yann-Erik de Lanlay.

Booking

Issam Jebali (Rosenborg) is shown the yellow card.
Issam Jebali (Rosenborg) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Offside, Celtic. Scott Brown tries a through ball, but Odsonne Edouard is caught offside.
Offside, Rosenborg. Vegar Hedenstad tries a through ball, but Alexander Søderlund is caught offside.
Hand ball by Issam Jebali (Rosenborg).
Offside, Celtic. Callum McGregor tries a through ball, but James Forrest is caught offside.
Foul by Alexander Søderlund (Rosenborg).
Filip Benkovic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Issam Jebali (Rosenborg).
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mike Jensen (Rosenborg) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Rosenborg. Conceded by Mikael Lustig.

Kick Off

First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.