by Celta, with goals from the Honduran Luis Palma and Gustaf Lagerbielke, They beat Feyenoord 2-1 and added their first and only victory in an erratic group stage of the Champions League for the Scottish team.
Both were the most insistent men in the party, above all. Luis Palma, who with his success uncovered his great season. He reached nine goals in his appearance in the ranks of the Scottish team (two scored with the Greek Aris Thessaloniki shirt before being transferred with the season already started) and is walking with a firm step in his adventure with Celtic.
His debut in the top continental competition with a goal against Atlético de Madrid was extended on the last day against Feyenoord. He gave his team hope of achieving their first victory, which came late when everything was already lost.
The reality was harsh for both clubs, who played the match of the defeated, of the two teams with nothing at stake in the Atlético de Madrid group. They had few incentives other than honor and money for victory, 2.8 million euros at stake for the three points, an interesting amount for any entity wanting to fatten the inside of its safe.
Celtic, condemned to the last position after adding only one point in the previous five games, and Feyenoord, qualified for the Europa League and mathematically far from the round of 16, had to face one of the least interesting duels of the day . .
With that script, Celtic showed themselves to be a more combative team. He could not disappoint his fans, to whom he wanted to give their first victory, which in the end would be the only one in this edition of the Champions League. And with the parenthesis of a great goal against Santi Giménez disallowed for offside, almost all the chances went to the Scottish squad.
Twenty minutes later he gave a scare with a shot from inside the Furuhashi area that saved goalkeeper Justin Bijlow; and, after half an hour, he hit the target from eleven meters due to a knockdown inside the area by Ramiz Zerrouki on Benoit Bastien. Luis Palma did not fail and could only respond on the edge of half-time Lutsharel Geertruida with a shot that hit a post of the goal defended by Joe Hart.
The second act was practically a carbon copy of the first. Celtic carried the weight of the match and monopolized almost all the clear chances. Luis Palma almost scored a double and Bijlow, with a great intervention, prevented the complete happiness of the Honduran striker, who, substituted with a quarter of an hour left, watched from the bench as Yankuba Minteh tied the game to cool down a stand that became heated cabout a shot against the crossbar by Callum McGregor and that exploded with Lagerbielke’s final goal.
In the end, Luis Palma’s good game and a great header from his teammate were enough for Celtic to take three points or, in other words, 2.8 million euros.
