MARTIN O’NEILL has fielded his strongest Celtic side for the second leg of the Champions League play-off against LASK in Austria tonight.
The Hoops go into the £40million winner-takes-all encounter with an unchanged starting line-up that earned a 3-0 lead from last week’s first game at Parkhead.
TEAM: Sinisalo; Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Tierney; Nygren, McGregor, Baur; Duran, Hogh, Yang. Subs: Doohan, Scales, Balikwisha, McCowan, Tounekti, Osmand, Hassan, Kenny, Hatate, Murray, Forrest and Ralston.
Earlier today, we asked how much could you remember about the 74-year-old team chief’s Euro adventures as Hoops manager in CQN‘s fun five-minute quiz to test your knowledge.
Now we repeat those questions and provide the answers.
TONGUE-LASHING…Benjamin Nygren celebrates firing Celtic to a 3-1 Europa League victory over Feyenoord in Rotterdam last November. (See Question 4.)
QUESTIONS:
1: True or false: Henrik Larsson scored the first goal in Martin O’Neill’s European debut as Celtic boss?
2: Who netted a quickfire hat-trick in O’Neill’s first-ever UEFA Cup match at Parkhead on August 24 2000, a 7-0 romp against Jeunesse Esch? Was it A: Henrik Larsson; B; Chris Sutton or C: Mark Burchill?
3: Who scored the Celtic goals in the 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield in March 2003 on their way to the UEFA Final in Seville?
4: O’Neill was the interim-manager when Celtic overcame Feyenoord 3-1 in Rotterdam in November last year. Who were that Hoops’ marksmen?
5: In his second period as caretaker boss, O’Neill saw his team beat VfB Stuttgart 1-0 in Germany in February. Who was on target for the visitors?
ANSWERS:
1: False. The first goal was scored by Lubomir Moravcik in the 4-0 UEFA Cup win over Jeunesse Esch in Luxembourg on August 10 2000. Moravcik netted a second goal before Henrik Larsson and Bobby Petta added the others.
2: C: Mark Burchill who netted a lightning-swift hat-trick in a record three-and-a-half minutes.
3: Alan Thompson and John Hartson.
4: Yang Hyun-jun, Reo Hatate and Benjamin Nygren.
5: Luke McCowan.
Well done if you got five out of five. Go to the top of the class!
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