Celtic news bulletin as Stephen Welsh hooked at half time on debut against old team-mate and Champions League rivals toil

Stephen Welsh suffered a nightmare debut on loan at Mechelen as he was hooked at half-time while up against his old Celtic team-mate Oh.

The stopper has moved to Belgium after finding top team games hard to come by at Parkhead but he lasted just 45 minutes in his first outing. Mechelen took a quick-fire lead through Benito Raman after just eight minutes but conceded twice in 10 minutes before the break and Welsh didn’t reappear for the second half.

Manage Besnik Hasi said: "Racing Genk was better in many aspects. They were faster, smarter and more technical, and we were not good enough. Our block was too big. We were going to put pressure, but we had not agreed on that. As a result, the defense did not keep up and there was too much space. The 1-1 hurt us. We lost our way for a while. And in the second half we did not create enough."

Oh also struggled for game time at the Hoops at joined Genk at the start of the season. He has scored six goals and was also substituted, although late on.

Next up for Celtic are Young Boys and new boss Giorgio Contini insists his side have to stop being so wasteful if they are to stun Celtic this week. The Hoops face the Swiss Champions League whipping boys on Wednesday, with YB bottom of the new look format with no points and a -19 goal difference.

They came out of their winter break and fought out a disappointing goalless draw with bottom side Winterthur. And Contini - who took charge of the club last month - admitted they must do more in Scotland. He said: "It's a shame we didn't reward ourselves with goals for our good performance. This was a game where we deserved to win comfortably.

"Their goalkeeper had a very good game and we never got any luck. However, I saw a team of players who