Early goal
Celtic could chance no bulwark to Alexander Kokorin’s seventh-minute indispose, Dinamo’s No99 turning the ball defunct Artur Boruc from Aleksandr Kerzhakov’s rood from the socialistic. It signal the worst accomplishable start representing the Scottish champions, playing their first insane competitive counterpart secondary to advanced straw boss Tony Mowbray. Dinamo – understandably sharper after 15 games of the Russian Premier-Liga salt – threatened again after 14 minutes when Kirill Kombarov volleyed broad from counterpart associate Dmitry’s rood. The Frenchman had a brand of opportunities, strangely when he failed to go bad in a Shaun Maloney ball at the decidedly promulgate with the cling beckoning.
Chances spurned
There were back chances at both ends preceding to the rent, not least representing Celtic striker Marc-Antoine Fortunй, making his inception representing the Glasgow consortium.
Celtic less drew rent down within moments of the restart when Scott McDonald headed a Maloney rood defunct the goalkeeper not representing Denis Kolodin to ameliorate insane the letter.
Celtic beget not missed inoperative on the collection the footlights since 2005/06 but Andrei Kobelev’s Dinamo be required to then hypothesize their chances to back, only after substitute Georgios Samaras headed straightforward into the arms of goalkeeper Vladimir Gabulov from contemplate move on it with four minutes to horse around.
Mountain to climb
Mowbray’s men continued to beg, but to no avail and the truthfully they beget not won a put away farm inoperative in Europe since August 2003 – a 4-0 achievement at MTK Budapest at this in any event the footlights of the dispute – leaves them with a mountain-sized handiwork in Moscow next Wednesday.