CAPTAIN Callum McGregor is the only player to be involved in EVERY game during Celtic’s European Dossier of Disaster.
The Hoops capitulated in Austria on Tuesday after the 33-year-old onfield leader had scored the opening goal to add to the 3-0 first leg victory to give Martin O’Neill’s side a 4-0 advantage with just an hour to play against LASK.
Unbelievably, the Parkhead club folded to a 5-4 aggregate extra-time defeat to exit the Champions League at the qualifying round for the SIXTH consecutive time.
It’s a bewildering sequence of abject failure spread over eight years with Celtic failing against AEK Athens (Greece), CFR Cluj (Romania), Ferencvaros (Hungary), FC Midtjylland (Denmark), Kairat Almaty (Kazakhstan) and now LASK.
AGONY IN AUSTRIA…Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney watch Celtic struggle against LASK.
Here is the record of misery:
2018/19
Third round:
AEK ATHENS (Agg: 3-2)
2019/20
Third round:
CFR CLUJ (Agg: 5-4)
2020/21
Second round: One-off tie*
FERENCVAROS 2-1
2021/22
Second round:
FC MIDTJYLLAND (Agg: 3-2)
2025/26
Play-Off round:
KAIRAT ALMATY (Agg: 0-0; Kairat win 3-2 on pens)
2026/27
Play-Off round
LASK (Agg: 5-4)
* Covid season, played at Celtic Park.
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