Draw ends Celtic's European interest for another season

Celtic will not play in European football beyond the World Cup break after being held to a 1-1 home draw by Shakhtar Donetsk.

Giorgos Giakoumakis gave the hosts the lead at half-time but a brilliant finish from exciting young talent Mykhailo Mudryk earned the visitors a point and made it 10 Champions League home games without a win for Celtic, a run which stretches back nine years.

The result consigned Celtic to a bottom-placed finish in Group F ahead of their final game against holders Real Madrid in Spain next week and blocked their escape route to the Europa League.

The Scottish champions did not quite create the quality of chances they had in earlier group games but Kyogo Furuhashi missed an excellent opportunity to put them back in front. However, the visitors subsequently produced a strong contender for miss of the season.

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Celtic's tally of one point and two goals from their opening four matches was scant reward for their attacking ambition and Ange Postecoglou was even bolder in his approach for their final home match in this season's competition.

The Celtic manager employed a 4-2-4 formation with Giakoumakis and Furuhashi starting together for only the second time, and the first since a 2-0 win over St Johnstone 12 months ago. Sead Haksabanovic and Liel Abada were out wide with creative midfielders Reo Hatate and Matt O’Riley behind them.

Furuhashi dropped deep to engineer Celtic’s first shooting chance, which led to Giakoumakis hitting a first-time effort over from 25 yards.

Shakhtar took the sting out of the game early on and Celtic needed some good covering from Greg