'Following a good start to the domestic league season including in a 4-0 win against Rangers, Celtic were brought down to earth by Real Madrid.' twoht
It’s been a decade since Celtic last made it through the group stages of the Champions League, but hopes for this season had been fairly high. After having won the league title back from Rangers at the end of last season, they’ve already started this season with a bang, winning their first six straight league matches.
And it can hardly be said that Glasgow isn’t significant to Real Madrid. Of all those fourteen wins, possibly the most precious was their 7-3 win against Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden Park in 1960 when, on a gusty night in front of more than 127,000 people, a team containing Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas played some of the greatest football this tournament has ever seen. They would only win the tournament once in the next 38 years.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda seemed to be the motto of their evening. Celtic piled on pressure throughout the first half and the opening stages of the second, hitting the post through Callum McGregor, who was set up by Georgos Giakoumanis. They had other chances besides, and in an unexpected bonus Karim Benzema, Real’s arch-tormentor in this competition last season, limped from the pitch after half an hour to be replaced by European football’s forgotten man, Eden Hazard.
Laser-targetted and ruthlessly efficient, Real Madrid settled into their a familiarly comfortable swagger. A match that had felt like a contest for fifty minutes effectively ended as one in the space of five second half minutes, and completely killed off with a quarter of an hour to play. Celtic Park fell quiet, hopes of a big European nights running aground against the reality of European club football’s inequalities.
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