Kairat vs Celtic LIVE score and goal updates from the Champions League clash

Celtic have made the gruelling 3500-mile trip to Kazakhstan with a mammoth 10-hour flight for their Champions League showdown with Kairat Almaty.

But victory and they will feel like they could fly back to Glasgow themselves such is the enormity of the 90 minutes facing the Scottish Premiership champions.

The Parkhead money men will certainly be sky-high if they can get their hands on a £40million cheque from UEFA that comes with reaching the league phase of European club football's most prestigious tournament.

For Brendan Rodgers and his players, though, it's about the prestige rather than the pounds of rubbing shoulders with the cream of the continent.

They did it last season and they want to get back there after the late sucker punch against Bayern Munich ended their hopes of reaching the last-16.

Celtic will have to play much better than they did in the first leg after a shock goalless draw at Parkhead which has left this play-off tie firmly in the balance.

The conditions are sure to be testing with stifling heat in a country that is further east than Afghanistan and a sell-out home crowd and just a hardy band of travelling Hoops legions.

It's going to be nervy and you can follow all the build up, match action and reaction right here in our LIVE blog.

The man in the middle in Kairat Almaty's Central Stadium is Italian referee Maurizio Mariani who is taking charge of his first Celtic game.

The experienced whistler will be assisted by Daniele Bindoni and Alberto Tegoni with Matteo Marchetti the fourth official.

Marco Di Bello is the man on VAR with Valerio Marini the man assisting him in the booth.

While main man Mariani hasn't officiated a Celtic game before, he has been involved in fixtures involving Scottish