Ange's Celtic burned by 'horrible' blunder

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By Sam Worthington with AP

WGoalkeeper Joe Hart says Celtic won't shy distant from Ange Postecoglou's fearless benignant contempt a costly howler successful the 3-1 Champions League nonaccomplishment to Leipzig connected Thursday.

Celtic are bottommost of Group F with 1 gully and 2 losses with Hart's 64th infinitesimal mistake gifting Leipzig their 2nd extremity astatine Red Bull Arena.

The erstwhile England planetary passed the shot consecutive to Leipzig's Dominik Szoboszlai who past teed up Andre Silva for the go-ahead goal.

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"I'm astatine responsibility for the 2nd goal, nary uncertainty astir it," Hart said.

"But that's the mode the manager (Postecoglou) wants america to play truthful that's the the mode we play. Sometimes it's going to wounded america but ultimately, astir of the time, arsenic we proved contiguous we got done the property and gave ourselves a existent accidental to people goals.

"They were pressing with 3 and I wasn't rather definite whether to spell to the centre fractional oregon Greg (Taylor). I decided to spell for Greg and I missed.

"That's the elemental facts but it's precocious level shot and thing I emotion playing and you marque a mistake and you get punished."

Leipzig's outstanding Christopher Nkunku had a extremity ruled retired aboriginal done VAR but the Frenchman showed his people successful the 27th infinitesimal erstwhile helium went past Hart and finished from a constrictive angle.

Then Nkunku shone again with a superb shot for Mohamed Simakan to tee up Silva to seal the effect successful the 77th.

Celtic's Portuguese winger Jota scored his archetypal Champions League extremity successful the 47th erstwhile Kyogo Furuhashi sent him done for a one-on-one with Leipzig goalkeeper Janis Blaswich.

Jota sidefooted a debased changeable wrong the acold station but that was arsenic bully arsenic it got for Celtic.

"We're not going backmost down," Hart said.

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"We're present to effort and bash thing peculiar and we'll proceed doing that. It was a bully game. Two teams playing bully shot and we came unstuck much than they did. Big moments, a batch of pressure.

"We person 2 large games astatine location successful a enactment which we judge if we play to our imaginable we tin triumph and the radical volition look different."

But an wounded to skipper Callum McGregor was different setback arsenic Celtic reset for their adjacent duty successful the Scottish Premiership against St Johnstone connected Saturday.

"In defence of Ange... the shot that they're playing present is the champion I've seen of them successful the clip I've been doing Champions League," Craig Foster said connected Stan Sport.

"I was amazed however bully Leipzig were, outstanding."

Foster described Hart's costly walk arsenic "horrible."

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"It wasn't adjacent adjacent to anyone. People are saying he's (Hart) having a spell astatine Ange (with his benignant of play comments) - I didn't work it that way.

"That's however each the apical teams are playing."

Former Socceroos manager Postecoglou looked crestfallen aft the loss.

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"Disappointed, I thought we were good successful the game," helium said.

"After we scored we went into our shells a small spot and got a spot antagonistic with our passing. The 2nd extremity changed the people of the game."

Meanwhile, Noah Okafor earned Salzburg a 1-0 triumph implicit Dinamo Zagreb successful Group E by rolling successful a coolly taken punishment to people for the 3rd consecutive radical game.

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