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… and with that, today’s Euro Clockwatch comes to an end. Thanks for reading and sticking with us!
ShareNancy: I’m not concerned … things will go our way
Wilfried Nancy talks to TNT Sports. “I asked a few things but the reality is we are not able to cope with the intensity … we could not come out under pressure … as soon as we had time to play forward we didn’t take the good decision … I really liked the second half … we escaped the pressure … I don’t like to talk about luck but it was an own goal … to come from behind was not easy … the attitude was good … the second half was better … I cannot tell you they didn’t try … they tried … we should have been able to connect a little bit more … I’m not concerned because I really liked the reaction … this is the most important … if they scored one goal the dynamic can change … I saw already good things … the result is not what we want … we play to win games … at this moment it is a bit difficult … I believe my players deserved more … but this is the reality … we rest and prepare for the final … the belief from my players is really strong and this is the most important for me … I respect the fans … they are really important for us … we play for them … they are not happy with the situation … they showed it … I know where we are going … for the moment it is obviously not what we want but I see lots of good things … patience is important … I believe in what we do … shortly things will go our way.”
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Ewan Murray was at Parkhead tonight as Evan Ferguson came of age in a Roma shirt. This is his report.
Basel 1-2 Aston Villa. Ben Fisher watched Villa break Basel fan Roger Federer’s heart. Here’s his verdict on Villa’s eighth win in succession.
Shelbourne 0-3 Crystal Palace. Ed Aarons was in Dublin to witness Palace’s walk in the park. Here’s his report.
Celtic’s Arne Engels talks to TNT Sports. “It was not good enough … we lost too many duels … we can do better … hopefully we can move on because we have a final in a few days … it’s up to us to keep our head high … react and go on … obviously the system is different … we need to find some solutions … there’s not a lot of time for the final … we cannot lose that … everybody is focused on that.”
Here’s what it’s done to the Europa League table. Aston Villa are looking good for a top-eight finish; Nottingham Forest have helped their chances of swerving the play-off round as well. Celtic have work to do if they’re to make it through the league stage, while Rangers are as good as out.
A reminder of the earlier results in the Europa League.
Dinamo Zagreb 1-3 Real Betis
Ferencváros 2-1 Rangers
Ludogorets 3-3 PAOK
Midtjylland 1-0 Genk
Nice 0-1 Sporting Braga
Sturm Graz 0-1 Red Star Belgrade
Stuttgart 4-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Utrecht 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Young Boys 1-0 Lille
Updated at 17.05 EST
Europa League: the late full-times
Basel 1-2 Aston Villa
Brann 0-4 Fenerbahce
Celta Vigo 1-2 Bologna
Celtic 0-3 Roma
FCSB 4-3 Feyenoord
Freiburg 1-0 Red Bull Salzburg
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Go Ahead Eagles
Panathinaikos 0-0 Viktoria Plzen
Porto 2-1 Malmo
ShareFULL TIME: Celtic 0-3 Roma
A humbling for the hosts at Parkhead. The booing at the whistle is loud enough; imagine if half of the punters in the stadium hadn’t already gone home in a huff. Wilfried Nancy becomes the first Celtic manager in history to lose his first two matches in charge.
ShareFULL TIME: Aberdeen 0-1 Strasbourg
Aberdeen are out of the Conference League.
ShareFULL TIME: Basel 1-2 Aston Villa
A big win for Villa in Switzerland. Their eighth in a row in all competitions! They’re guaranteed a spot in the play-offs at least, but they’re on course for something better.
ShareFULL TIME: Shelbourne 0-3 Crystal Palace
Daniel Kelly has half a chance late on for a consolation for Shels, but his shot, aimed for the top right, is palmed around the post by Walter Benítez. An easy win for Palace in Dublin.
Basel 1-2 Aston Villa. Koba Koindredi sends a diagonal free kick into the Villa box from the left. Albian Ajeti meets it on the right-hand corner of the six-yard box but flashes his header wide right. Marco Bizot probably had it covered, though he’d still have had to make a good save. He should have been put to work.
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Paulo Dybala and Leon Bailey take turns to have shots blocked in short order. Roma still sniffing around for a fourth.
Basel 1-2 Aston Villa. Villa aren’t exactly hanging on in Basel, but the hosts are doing what they can in search of an equaliser. Dominik Schmid bursts into their box down the left, and Lamare Bogarde clumsily lunges at him, but the Villa defender gets the benefit of a generous decision when the pair collide. That was just inside the area as well.
ShareNO GOAL: Celtic 0-3 Roma
Small mercy for Celtic, as Bailey went off a second too soon on his initial run down the right. That hasn’t stopped quite a lot of Parkhead regulars making their own early runs for the exits. A lot of flipped-up seats in the stands.
ShareGOAL! Celtic 0-4 Roma (Bailey 74)
Leon Bailey is sent scampering into acres down the right. He feeds Gianluca Mancini on the overlap. Mancini tries to round Kasper Schmeichel, but is forced too far wide right. He cuts back for Bailey, who drops a shoulder once, then again, to nudge into the box, right to left, and curls into the top left. Lovely finish!
Aberdeen 0-1 Strasbourg. Nicky Devlin brings down Martial Godo for a Strasbourg penalty. Joaquin Panichelli is subbed on to take it, but Ismael Doukoure takes the ball off him … and of course then misses. What a fiasco. Hats off to Dimitar Mitov for making the save, though.
Shelbourne 0-3 Crystal Palace. Romain Esse couldn’t come any closer to making it four for Palace. He fires a shot off the base of the right-hand post, the ball sailing across the face of goal, off the base of the left-hand post, and back into the arms of Shels keeper Wessel Speel.
Celtic 0-3 Roma. On the touchline, Wilfried Nancy looks to the heavens. He can’t catch a break at the moment. Since he’s rocked up at Parkhead, pretty much everything that can go wrong has done. It’s pelting down with rain, as well, and he doesn’t have his hood up.
ShareNO GOAL: Celtic 0-3 Roma
Nope. Turns out Iheanacho had rather needlessly gone too early in the middle. He was ahead of Engels and there goes that dream.
ShareGOAL! Celtic 1-3 Roma (Iheanacho 64)
Celtic win their first corner of the evening. It nearly sparks joy, Niccolò Pisilli inches away from skimming a header into his own net. From the second corner, the ball’s worked down the right flank, Arne Engels crossing low, Kelechi Iheanacho whipping home from eight yards. Game on?
Is Kelechi Iheanacho offside? Photograph: Scott Heppell/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.31 EST
Shelbourne 0-3 Crystal Palace. Palace continue to press Shelbourne back, but without expending too much energy. They’ve gently established total control.
Basel 1-2 Aston Villa. Jadon Sancho crosses from the left. Evann Guessand, 12 yards out, blazes over. A big chance to double Villa’s lead goes begging.
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Celtic go straight up the other end, and Kelechi Iheanacho gains a yard down the middle … only to whip his low shot into the side netting with only the keeper to beat. Throw in the missed penalty, and as bad as Celtic have been, they could easily have clawed their way back into this.
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Roma work their way back into the ascendency, Stephan El Shaarawy crossing for Niccolò Pisilli, who has to score, six yards out, but nuts wide left. The flag pops up to save his blushes.
ShareGOAL! Basel 1-2 Aston Villa (Tielemans 53)
Villa retake the lead through Youri Tielemans, who meets Emiliano Buendía’s low cross along the face of the box, right to left, with a confident sidefoot into the bottom right!
Youri Tielemans scores for Aston Villa! Photograph: Neville Williams/Aston Villa FC/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 16.19 EST
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Celtic have started the second half brightly, to be fair. Wilfried Nancy may well have got round to unpacking his hairdryer from the removal crates.
Celtic 0-3 Roma. With Wilfried Nancy already registering 11 on the Guardian’s patented Russell Martin Glasgow Honeymoon-o-meter™, one-and-a-half matches into his Celtic reign, he makes a triple change: on come Kelechi Iheanacho, Paulo Bernardo and Colby Donovan for Daizen Maeda, Benjamin Nygren and Kieran Tierney.
The matches in Dublin, Basel and Aberdeen have started again. The one in Glasgow in a minute.
Half-time postbag. “I know they’ve not had their differences to seek with the current board, but at least Celtic don’t have Gianni Infantino in charge. Though I wonder if the fans that forked out the £45 that the club were charging tonight, which would get you around one minute of the World Cup final next year, consider it good value for money?” – Simon McMahon
“I think those were Evan Ferguson’s second and third goal for Roma. Considering that when he arrived at the Italian club he hadn’t scored in over a year, that’s pretty good. The Giallorossi surely hope this means he’s found his scoring boots again, and so do Ireland. How they could do with having another striker in form come the spring” – Kári Tulinius
ShareEuropa League 8pms: the half-times
Basel 1-1 Aston Villa
Brann 0-3 Fenerbahce
Celta Vigo 1-0 Bologna
Celtic 0-3 Roma
FCSB 1-2 Feyenoord
Freiburg 0-0 Red Bull Salzburg
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Go Ahead Eagles
Panathinaikos 0-0 Viktoria Plzen
Porto 2-0 Malmo
ShareHALF TIME: Aberdeen 0-1 Strasbourg
… and this scoreline possibly flatters Strasbourg. The Dons will be knocked out tonight if this is the full-time result.
ShareHALF TIME: Shelbourne 0-3 Crystal Palace
The FA Cup holders in total control.
ShareHALF TIME: Basel 1-1 Aston Villa
This scoreline’s about right on balance, though.
ShareHALF TIME: Celtic 0-3 Roma
Celtic depart to boos. They’ve been utterly shredded. The scoreline flatters them, if anything.
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Reo Hatate has the ball. But there’s a long delay, as Mario Hermoso is booked for the foul that led to the penalty, then Stephan El Shaarawy follows him into the referee’s notebook for saying his piece. So Hatate gives the ball to Arne Engels … who raps a low shot off the base of the left-hand post, across the face of goal, and away. Nothing going right for Celtic this evening.
oh, Arne Engels. Photograph: Robert Perry/EPAShare
Updated at 16.06 EST
Celtic 0-3 Roma. Penalty for Celtic! Arne Engels tries to get the better of Mario Hermoso down the inside right. Hermoso grabs his arm. Engels goes over, and the referee points to the spot. It’s very generous, but it’s a lifeline for Celtic just before the break!
ShareGOAL! Celtic 0-3 Roma (Ferguson 45+1)
There’s something wrong in Paradise all right. Matias Soulé crosses low from the right. Evan Ferguson gets in ahead of Liam Scales, takes a touch, spins, and whips a shot across Kasper Schmeichel and into the bottom left. This is the evening Evan Ferguson’s Roma career finally takes off!
Evan Ferguson scores again for Roma. Oh, Celtic. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PAShare
Updated at 15.53 EST
GOAL! Aberdeen 0-1 Strasbourg (Godo 35)
Aberdeen have been the better side … but they’re behind, Martial Godo slotting upon being released down the middle.
Martial Godo opens the scoring for Strasbourg. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.50 EST
Celtic 0-2 Roma. Matias Soulé spins Kieran Tierney down the right and enters the box. Tierney has a grab and a nibble from behind, and is fortunate Soulé tries to stay on his feet. Had he flopped to the floor, the referee would have had a decision to make. He’d have most probably pointed to the spot.
Basel 1-1 Aston Villa. Basel are well on top now. Bénie Traore is sent clear down the middle but Marco Bizot makes up for his earlier flap with a fine save. Turns out Traore was offside, but the keeper wasn’t to know that.
Celtic 0-2 Roma. Parkhead is very quiet. We’re in Kid Creole territory here.
ShareGOAL! Shelbourne 0-3 Crystal Palace (Pino 37)
Yeremy Pino dances his way down the middle of the park. A proper sashay-slalom. And pings home. Such a lovely dribble, and Shelbourne are being seriously outclassed.
ShareGOAL! Celtic 0-2 Roma (Ferguson 36)
The Republic of Ireland international makes it two! Matias Soulé feeds the overlapping Zeki Çelik down the right. Çelik cuts back for Evan Ferguson, who slots from close range. Lovely move. Celtic a rabble. It’s an understatement to say that had been coming.
Evan Ferguson makes it 2-0 to Roma. Photograph: Robert Perry/EPAShare
Updated at 15.52 EST
GOAL! Basel 1-1 Aston Villa (Daniliuc 34)
Basel are level this time! A free kick hooked in by Shaqiri from the left. Marco Bizot comes out to collect … but fails in his task. Flavius Daniliuc sticks out a leg and gently guides the ball past the flapping keeper and into the bottom right. Lovely free kick delivery, cute finish, awful goalkeeping.
Flavius Daniliuc makes it 1-1. Photograph: James Marsh/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 15.49 EST
Celtic 0-1 Roma. Celtic ship possession too easily yet again, and this time it’s Niccolò Pisilli who takes a shy at goal from distance. Wilfried Nancy finally gets up from the dugout to issue his new charges some beneficial advice. Celtic are all over the shop.
ShareNO GOAL! Basel 0-1 Aston Villa
VAR has a look, and turns out there was an offside in the build-up. Villa get away with one.
ShareGOAL! Basel 1-1 Aston Villa (Leroy 27)
Basel dangerman Dominik Schmid’s shot from a tight angle on the left is parried. It drops to Leo Leroy, who creams a low drive across Marco Bizot and into the bottom left. What a finish!
Leo Leroy has the ball in the net but is it offside? Photograph: Pierre Albouy/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.33 EST
Celtic 0-1 Roma. Celtic are caught playing out slowly from the back, and Evan Ferguson clatters a shot off the right-hand upright, and out for a goal kick. Celtic nearly buckling under all this pressure.
ShareGOAL! Shelbourne 0-2 Crystal Palace (Nketiah 25)
Yeremy Pino releases Christantus Uche into the box down the middle. Uche telescopes a leg to prod the ball past Shels keeper Wessel Speel to the left. The ball clanks off the base of the left-hand post, and Eddie Nketiah can’t miss from a yard out.
Eddie Nketiah makes it two-nil to Palace. Photograph: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 15.30 EST
Celtic 0-1 Roma. Roma captain Stephan El Shaarawy is in the mood. Now he barrels down the middle, before laying off to Zeki Çelik, who has time and space on the right-hand edge of the Celtic D. He aims a curler towards the unguarded left-hand portion of the net, but gets the direction all wrong. Goal kick. Had he managed to get that on target, Kasper Schmeichel might have been in trouble, because he was slightly out of position.
Basel 0-1 Aston Villa. Dominik Schmid dribbles in from the left and aims for the bottom left. No good. He’s been Basel’s liveliest customer, though.