{"id":98792,"date":"2025-08-27T04:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:18:10","slug":"celtic-crash-out-of-champions-league-play-offs-penalty-shootout-vs-fc-kairat-goals-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98792\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic crash out of Champions League play-offs, penalty shootout vs FC Kairat, goals, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish champions Celtic crashed out of the Champions League play-offs on Wednesday morning AEST after missing three spot-kicks in a humiliating penalty shootout against Kazakh side FC Kairat.<\/p>\n<p>The Kazakh Premier League champions had already come through three qualifying rounds and go into the hat for Thursday\u2019s draw for the Champions League proper for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>There they can hope to rub shoulders with the likes of superpowers Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic meanwhile must console themselves with a place in the Europa League. With neither side able to score in 210 minutes of football across the two legs, it came down to penalties which Kairat won 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest football news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=FootballArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celtic, the 1967 European Cup winners, will now drop into the Europa League and face a 5600km trip home from Kazakhstan ruing two dreadful 0-0 stalemates and a badly fluffed shootout.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755550689_238_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hugely disappointing and I really feel for the supporters who have travelled all the way to be here, the effort and commitment they\u2019ve shown to be here,\u201d said Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re bitterly disappointed for them as well as ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kairat players celebrate after winning the Champions League playoff second leg. AP Photo\/Alikhan SariyevSource: AP<\/p>\n<p>Japan forward Daizen Maeda missed the decisive penalty after Celtic had been left reeling when Kairat\u2019s 21-year-old keeper Temirlan Anarbekov saved Adam Idah\u2019s opening effort and then Luke McCowan\u2019s weak second one.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic boss Rodgers blamed the quality of the pitch for his team\u2019s failure to score, while the home side were cheered on in an electric atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pitch made it awful. We were defensively okay but couldn\u2019t quite make the breakthrough,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Engels and Callum McGregor converted their penalties but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made it stuffy and credit to them, over the two games they defended really well,\u201d said Celtic captain McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the two legs we didn\u2019t do enough to hurt them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game was locked at 0-0 after last week\u2019s goalless draw at Celtic Park and the two sides played out a second 0-0 stalemate, despite a late flurry from the visitors in extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>Maeda was though on goal as full-time approached but sent a shot over the bar with just the goalkeeper to beat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had good chances, especially in the second half,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it goes to penalties, anything can happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bodo Glimt of Norway beat Sturm Graz 6-2 on aggregate despite a 2-1 defeat Tuesday, while Pafos of Cyprus beat Red Star Belgrade 2-1 by holding the Serbians to a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of all seven playoff ties advance to the league phase of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>While the defeated sides switch to the league phase of the Europa League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish champions Celtic crashed out of the Champions League play-offs on Wednesday morning AEST after missing three spot-kicks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-98792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}