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By Alex Gordon.

A DREADFUL penalty-kick miss by Bahrudin Atajic condemned Ronny Deila to his first defeat as Celtic manager.

The Bosnian striker had the ideal opportunity to level the scores four minutes from time after substitute Paul McMullan had been downed in the box.

Unfortunately, Atajic blazed his spot-kick over the bar into the Hamburg crowd much to the annoyance of the new Hoops gaffer.

It was a largely experimental Celtic line-up with Deila taking no risks ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League qualifier against Legia Warsaw in the Polish capital.

Alas, appalling defending by Filip Twardzik gifted the Germans the winning goal before the interval.

The left-back made a mess of trying to control a long and hopeful punt into the Celtic penalty box. The ball broke clear and was immediately presented to Christopher Nothe who could hardly believe his good fortune.

Nothe struck his effort first time from eight yards and Craig Gordon had no chance as the low drive zipped past his right hand in the 39th minute.

Twardzik toiled in the opening 45 minutes and was also booked in the 33rd minute after a lunging tackle after once again giving the ball away with a slack pass.

Celtic started at whirlwind pace and had three excellent opportunities inside the opening 10 minutes.

Atajic fizzed in a low shot from just outside the box, but keeper Philipp Tschauner got down swiftly to hold the ball at his right hand post.

Five minutes later, Tony Watt, looking lively on the left wing, tried his luck from a tight angle.

His shot totally bamboozled Tschauner, but carried over the crossbar and out to safety.

Amido Balde should have got the game’s opening goal in the 10th minute when he was through on goal after some neat play outside the box.

However, the Portuguese Under-21 international lacked composure at the vital moment and allowed the keeper to block his hurried parting shot.

Gordon, making his second appearance for the Hoops, showed he was still rusty after being out for over two years with a slack goal-kick to Nir Biton.

The Israeli midfielder, captain for the day, was taken unawares and St Pauli broke forward, but made a mess of the opportunity.

Stuart Findlay, partnering Eoghan O’Connell in the middle of the inexperienced back four, was also sloppy with some wayward passes, but the Hoops escaped punishment.

The game was billed as a friendly – and the clubs have an affiliation – but the home players weren’t slow to put in some punishing challenges.

Skipper Soren Gonther was yellow-carded for a rugby tackle on McGeouch that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Celtic’s current home at Murrayfield.

Liam Henderson tried to set up Balde with a neat chip into the danger zone, but the ball carried over the giant frontman’s head.

It looked like being a stalemate at the interval until Twardzik’s lapse in concentration and control allowed St Pauli to snatch the lead.

Deila put on Lukasz Zaluska for Gordon at half-time and replaced the ineffective Balde with Paul McMullan.

Henderson brought the St Pauli keeper into action with a long-range free-kick in the 65th minute. The idea was good, but, unfortunately, the execution didn’t quite match the ambition.

Zaluska produced one memorable moment when he pushed a raging effort from Sebastian Mhyre over the crossbar 10 minutes from time.

Then came Atajic’s dreadful spot-kick blunder which was followed in the last minute by an effort from Watt which swept just wide of the target.

As an exercise, it was worthwhile and the Celtic youngsters will expect to do better when presented with the opportunity to impress the new manager.

CELTIC: Gordon (sub: Zaluska 46); Herron, Findlay, O’Connell, Twardzik; Biton, Henderson, McGeouch; Atajic, Balde (sub: McMullan 46) and Watt.

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  1. ryecatcher on

    Ger57…….

     

     

    McBride was never a friend of Celtic.

     

     

    An opportunist

     

     

    He won’t figure in Celtic historical debates even 10 years from now……

  2. CaltonTongues#TeamOscar on

    Mags Magill

     

     

    Nice turnover – Nice hoose but yer windaes are getting tanned ya fenian bastard…..

     

    EPL fodder – fenian fodder but yer windaes are still gettin tanned ya fenian bastard….

     

    CL if yer lucky – oot the close if yer lucky ya fenian bastard….

     

     

    wunner whit the huns are daein? – Read above, life in Easterhouse in the 60’s/70’s/80’s….

     

     

    As for yon deid team – feck them. When MY team beat yon deid team you love’s 54 titles then comeback and question me about finance.

     

     

    Until then, keep tanning ma windaes or buy me a pint!

  5. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    The £9 Million bid from Southampton is now meant to be for Virgil rather than Fraser Forster.

     

     

    Allegedly Celtic have said they will not accept less than £10 M ——– but that could all be bollocks of course.

  7. Margaret McGill on

    CaltonTongues#TeamOscar

     

     

    00:55 on 28 July, 2014

     

     

    When’s Easterhoose getting its independence?

     

    So if I buy you a pint all those windaes I did the tanning of back in the day is forgiven?

     

    Or shall I keep tanning yer windaes in a hun like manner?

     

     

    CSCWindaestanningsrus

  10. CaltonTongues#TeamOscar on

    Mags,

     

     

    You must have had some throw on you then Whitburn to Easterhouse….

     

     

    Impressed even though I know ye….

     

     

    Should you not be Shot Putting or Discus flinging in Glasgow at the mo?

  11. ryecatcher on

    Johnny Rambo….

     

     

    Ehab Al Ghossein,Hamas spokesman,does his people no favours though,ey?

     

     

    This is a murderous mess……,

     

     

    Suffer the little children.

  12. Margaret McGill on

    CaltonTongues#TeamOscar

     

     

    01:05 on 28 July, 2014

     

    ok nae bother

     

    I know where ye live

     

    expect some windaes tanned after the Commonwealth games :)

  13. An Tearmann on

    Neganon

     

    Can you link/direct me to your ‘peter lawell’ I am chairman article

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    HH

  14. NegAnon2 on

    An tearmann apologies but I have no idea how to do that. Is the CQN magazine still available on the site somewhere?

  15. Margaret McGill on

    I’m pretty sure Liverpool is the only communist city in England.

     

     

    As Karl Marx once said: “Property is theft”, and the Scousers agreed with his philosophy, and as a result, all property in Liverpool is the result of theft…

  16. NegAnon2 on

    Brogan. It’s a dead cert both will be sold. The money will go in the bank. Will it make any of us feel better???

  18. Margaret McGill on

    I think the best way for the Israeli government to keep track of all future Hamas terrorists is to tattoo numbers on the forearms of all palestinian children

  19. An Tearmann on

    Neganon2

     

    No worries, will have a rummage.thought maybe you had a copy handy :-)

     

    HH

  21. NegAnon2 on

    An tearmann I have a copy on my laptop but can’t access it at the moment. Will try and hunt it out when I can but would need your email addy.

  23. Margaret McGill on

    sipsini

     

     

    01:23 on 28 July, 2014

     

     

    I know. Its a disgrace. American foreign aid should be banned. period. All of it.

  24. Margaret McGill on

    To paraphrase a Bob Hope joke..legia Warsaw…are their Norwegian managers better than our Norwegian managers?

  25. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Tony Watt and Leigh Griffiths both through the middle.

     

    That is the key to success.

     

    Henderson in midfield too.Workhorse, fantastic brain and what an eye for a pass.

  26. Margaret McGill on

    Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    01:36 on 28 July, 2014

     

    yeah but how much are they worth?

  27. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Mags,

     

    Oh I know pal.

     

    I know what you are getting at.

     

    The chequebook is closed.I am trying to work oot in my head a formula to get us into the group stages.

  29. Margaret McGill on

    Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    01:41 on 28 July, 2014

     

     

    Infinitely many mathematicians walk into a bar. The first says, “I’ll have a beer.” The second says, “I’ll have half a beer.” The third says, “I’ll have a quarter of a beer.” The barman pulls out just two beers. The mathematicians are all like, “That’s all you’re giving us? How drunk do you expect us to get on that?” The bartender says, “Come on guys. Know your limits.”

  30. jamesgang on

    the spirit of arthur lee

     

     

    23:12 on 27 July, 2014

     

    CaltonTongues#TeamOscar

     

     

    If they stayed the would have won the Rugby

     

     

    ——///-

     

     

    Oh no they wouldn’t. They’d have got their erses kicked big time by ‘bigger Bhoys’!!!

     

     

    Never thought I’d see the day that I was enraptured by events at the bigotdome in this way (apart from us horsing them of course)

     

     

    And as someone who spent so many years hating the Bokke jersey how great to cheer on a team built on ability not colour or creed as they played great rugby to beat the unbeatable all blacks.

     

     

    I’ll forever be proud of my city for making a stand on apartheid. Pretty sure that if Nelson had been a footie Mhan rather than a boxer he’d have been a Bhoy.

     

     

    Night Timdom.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  33. Margaret McGill on

    Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    01:52 on 28 July, 2014

     

    these days only occasionally. However, I will next month when the opportunity arises.

     

    Why doth thou ask? Pray tell?

  35. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Margaret,

     

    Naw I wasn’t being smart, I just wondered.

     

    I share your views 100%.

     

    Desperately frustrating when we should be building.

  36. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    The Zombie lurks.Anybody who thinks that scum will not be in the SPL next season is on another planet.

     

    Forget the nonsense about Hibs and Hearts challenging them.This time next year, they will be ready.

     

    We better be prepared.

  38. Catman on

    In Las Vegas at the moment but just heard that Tony Watt may be off to Belgium again but this time for £1.2M

  40. RWE on

    Crc

     

     

    I’m with two of my granddaughters in Virginia for 3 days. We’ll be sending 2 off tomorrow to Josh.

     

     

    Great idea.

     

     

    HH

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