It was McGregor who opened the scoring connected the night, a deflected changeable and a 4-0 pb connected aggregate.
LASK had started good but that extremity looked to each the satellite similar a footwear to their star plexus. They had chances successful Glasgow and they had chances successful the opening minutes successful Linz - and they were 4-0 down!
How galore punches tin 1 squad instrumentality earlier they suffer their fight? Many, arsenic it turned out.
Celtic were obliging, of course. Painfully so. We trumpeted their classy goals and their adventurous play a week agone and wrongly assumed that they had gumption to spell with it. Big mistake.
When Benjamin Nygren's ridiculously escaped walk led straight to LASK's equaliser connected the night, the archetypal signs of a wobble were visible.
Thirty 2 minutes had been played and Celtic did not look wholly comfy astatine 4-1 connected aggregate. Mad, but true.
When they conceded again 3 minutes into the 2nd half, determination were a fewer jelly legs connected show. Auston Trusty was culpable this time. Brushed disconnected the ball. Swatted and 4-2 now.
Trusty was poor, not the lone one, but a constituent of existent weakness that LASK went for.
Ten minutes aft the hosts scored their second, they scored their third. Too galore parts of the Celtic squad were successful afloat fright mode now. The dilatory decease was picking up pace.
Camilo Duran, the leader of the archetypal leg, was reduced to a non-event. Kasper Hogh worked hard but with nary impact. Passes went astray. Celtic were directionless. Everything fell apart.
Rabbits successful headlights bash not thin to look arsenic mislaid arsenic Celtic did erstwhile the unit truly hit.
If McGregor was trying to enactment retired fires successful his ain squad helium was failing. He could not chopped done the tension.
Martin O'Neill looked connected similar a antheral 10 years older than his existent age. This was a shocking nighttime for him. One of his worst successful football, helium said later. He took responsibility, but helium cannot beryllium unsocial successful that.
He emptied his seat successful a hopeless effort to stem the flow, but his substitutions, 5 successful 12 befuddled minutes, had zero impact.
Celtic did not person a changeable connected people successful the 2nd fractional of mean clip nor successful extra-time. They lone existed arsenic a antheral hanging disconnected a cliff borderline exists. There was lone 1 mode this was going to end.
LASK's 4th extremity mightiness person travel successful the 90th infinitesimal but it was deserved.
By that constituent they'd had 33 shots connected Celtic's extremity (they finished connected 40) to spell with the 20 from past week. It was a rout.
Cameron Carter-Vickers was hobbling astir connected 1 leg. Hogh overmuch the same. Forward came the waves and Celtic tried to clasp them backmost with a backmost 4 of Anthony Ralston, Dane Murray, Trusty and Liam Scales.
The 5th extremity was a mercy, and different Celtic subordinate doing the incorrect happening astatine the incorrect clip successful the incorrect place. For Nygren and Trusty work Luke McCowan. Hapless and helpless - and retired of the Champions League.
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