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Brendan Rodgers embarrassingly loses first competitive Celtic match

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Glasgow side lose 1-0 to Gibralar’s Lincoln Red Imps

Brendan Rodgers’ first competitive game as Celtic manager has not gone to plan, and ended in a 1-0 loss to part-time Gibraltar side Lincoln Red Imps.

A goal from Lee Casciaro handed the minnows their famous victory in a defeat that has already been dubbed the worst in the Glasgow giants’ history.

 Celtic, who were the first British club to win the European Cup in 1967, have not reached the group stage of the Champions League since 2013 but will be stunned by losing to their opponents who have won their tiny domestic league for 14 years on the trot.

Rodgers vowed to put things right in the return leg at Parkhead, declaring: “A game that we dominated and had enough chances to score, but sometimes it can happen in games like that, one ball up the pitch and they’re in.

“We’ve given ourselves a bit of work to do. I saw enough from the game, we created enough to go through.

“Of course you never want to lose the game. You let the local team have their night, we press on, another week’s training and be better for it.

“There’s no embarrassment. We never took our chances and they took theirs. The second leg will be different.”

Oh dear Brendan…

 

By Ben Kelly – @benkelly_10

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