Celtic Champions League roller coaster left them with same old nauseous feeling - Keith Jackson's big match verdict

Ten years spent on the same old roller coaster and yet it almost always ends the same way.

With Celtic feeling nauseous and their senses scrambled. But never more so than last night as Lazio clambered on board and snatched a victory from the jaws of what was nearly a defeat in a sickener that just might top the lot. An injury-time winner from sub Pedro left a familiar feeling in the pit of Parkhead’s stomach, meaning Brendan Rodgers and his players are already staring at elimination from Group E just two games in.

It came as a second crushing blow shortly after VAR had intervened to deny Luis Palma what had looked like a late winner of his own. Sickening? You bet. And yet this is a ride Celtic can’t get enough of despite the queasiness it creates. Rodgers picked the correct Lazio team before he had even decided on his own line-up. He called it on Tuesday when he said Ciro Immobile would be in from the start despite sitting out most of a defeat against AC Milan last weekend. And, true to form, he was spot on.

But the biggest riddle he had to solve was how to fill the role on the right of his attack... and with whom. He had choices with go-to man James Forrest and Palma, who came off the bench to make such a dramatic contribution at Fir Park on Saturday. But he opted instead to hand a start to another new boy, Yang Hyun-jun, even though the South Korean has spent the early part of the season trying to find his feet with limited success.

Yang started on the left, with Daizen Maeda switching across to fill the problem position, which meant it remained to be seen if Rodgers had chosen wisely. But he was also correct about the noise, which was reaching deafening levels in the moments leading up to kick-off. When Lazio got the