World media reacts as ragged Celtic punished by 'lucky' Leipzig while Giakoumakis penalty snub sparks German disbelief

There has been plenty of sympathy for Celtic across the globe after their Champions League dream came to a crashing halt against RB Leipzig on Tuesday night.

Ange Postecoglou set up his team to go for the throat against the Bundesliga side and aided by an sizzling Parkhead atmosphere that seemed to knock the visitors out of their stride from the minute the competition's famous anthem rang out, they initially threatened to breathe fire into their European campaign.

But as was the case against Shakhtar in Poland, chance after chance came and went. Matt O'Riley rattled the post, Greg Taylor skelped the crossbar, and Daizen Maeda headed over all in the space of a few first-half seconds that summed up how their group stage campaign has played out so far in a nutshell.

With the breakthrough just refusing to come, there was a sense of the inevitable coming as the game entered its late stages and Leipzig once again proved their quality on the break. Timo Werner opened the scoring with a wonderful header before he turned provider to set up Emil Forsberg.

As ever there has been plenty of reaction all over the planet with the Hoops now out of the Champions League and hanging onto their hopes of third place by a thread. So let's get into it.

Starting in Germany, there weren't too many plaudits for Leipzig who were labelled "lucky" after keeping a clean sheet against the odds. There was also some confusion after Giorgos Giakoumakis claimed for a penalty for a pull by Benjamin Henrichs, with the incident not even checked by VAR.

"After a late and lucky win against Celtic Glasgow, RB Leipzig can once again dream of reaching the round of 16 in the Champions League. Timo Werner gave the Saxons a deep lead on Tuesday in the second