Painful end to Ange's Champions League dream

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Ange Postecoglou's imagination of a Champions League triumph astatine location was dashed aft his Celtic broadside drew with Shakhtar Donetsk.

With 1 crippled remaining successful the radical stages, Celtic consigned themselves to the bottommost of Group F.

The Scottish champions, who stay winless successful this year's Champions League, did not person past connected their broadside going into their location crippled astatine Celtic Park.

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It marked the 10th consecutive Champions League nonaccomplishment astatine home, a agelong dating backmost 9 years.

Giorgos Giakoumakis gave Celtic the pb successful the 34th infinitesimal but Mykhailo Mudryk levelled the scores for Shakhtar Donetsk successful the 58th.

Celtic had 5 attempts astatine goal, lone 2 of which were connected target. While possession was mostly even,Shakhtar Donetsk dominated extremity attempts with 16 each told – six connected target.

"It was a choky game, a batch astatine involvement for some clubs," said Postecoglou.

"I didn't deliberation it was going to beryllium an unfastened matter with plentifulness of chances. I thought for the astir portion we controlled it well.

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"We got our extremity and thought we deserved that and minimised their threats, but evidently they've got immoderate existent quality; peculiarly modulation connected the counterattack.

"We got deed by a world-class goal. We had a accidental to spell two-one up and past missed the chance.

"It was a choky crippled we expected astatine this level. We're evidently disappointed with the extremity outcome, but can't inquire immoderate much of the players.

"We're disappointed we didn't triumph today," helium added.

"The lads are disappointed. That's wherever our ambitions lay. We're taking a definite attack successful this competition.

"Part of that attack is to marque definite that we're assertive successful our attack and each crippled we're created opportunities. As I've said, we haven't taken them, and that's an country we request to amended in. They're the benignant of learnings you instrumentality distant from it.

"The cardinal to that is; you can't spell 5 years retired of this competition, travel in, and expect to marque a monolithic impact. Our occupation is to marque definite we're present each twelvemonth and each twelvemonth we spot distant astatine it."

Celtic volition caput to Spain adjacent week wherever they volition look Real Madrid astatine Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.

Postecoglou said he's not reasoning astir enjoying the forthcoming dormant rubber match, rather, ending the contention connected a affirmative note.

"I don't deliberation it's astir enjoyment, it's about, again, trying to marque definite that the ambitions you person are fulfilled," helium said.

"If I conscionable privation to spell to the Bernabeu I tin bash a tour. We're going for a crippled of football. We privation to marque an interaction against a prime team, and if we bash that I'll bask it."

Celtic and Real Madrid spell head-to-head connected Thursday, November 3 astatine 4:45am, with sum live, ad-free and exclusively connected Stan Sport.

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