{"id":164009,"date":"2025-11-28T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:44:42","slug":"martin-oneill-enjoys-winning-european-farewell-as-celtic-overcome-feyenoord-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164009\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Neill enjoys winning European farewell as Celtic overcome Feyenoord \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin O\u2019Neill<\/a> wrote a memorable final postscript in his history with Celtic<\/a> in Europe as the interim manager led his team to a 3-1 win over Feyenoord.<\/p>\n

Goals from Yang Hyun-jun and Reo Hatate saw Celtic come from behind before half-time and substitute Benjamin Nygren added a late third as the Scottish champions kick-started their Europa League campaign.<\/p>\n

Liam Scales started at centre-back as Celtic<\/a> recorded their first away win in Europe since victory over Ferencvaros under Ange Postecoglou four years ago and first in the Netherlands since a 3-1 win over Ajax in O\u2019Neill\u2019s maiden Champions League qualifier in charge in 2001.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill went on to lead Celtic to the 2003 Uefa Cup final and wins over the likes of Juventus, Liverpool and Barcelona during five years in charge.<\/p>\n

The 73-year-old is expected to make way for Wilfried Nancy before Roma visit Celtic Park on December 11th and will leave them with a platform to enjoy another run in the competition. The Hoops now have seven points and also play Bologna and Utrecht in the league phase.<\/p>\n

Celtic started with Luke McCowan and Yang either side of Daizen Maeda in their front three and the former was guilty of an extraordinary early miss, hitting the bar from a yard out after an Arne Engels corner.<\/p>\n

The offside flag went up but VAR might have overturned that decision as it appeared the flick-on came from a Feyenoord player.<\/p>\n

Celtic were caught out by a ball over the top in the 11th minute with centre-back Auston Trusty on his way back from a solo run deep into the Feyenoord half. Sem Steijn laid the ball off for Ayase Ueda to finish.<\/p>\n

The goal sparked a flurry of red flares flying in from outside De Kuip, which had a stand closed as Uefa punishment for fireworks use.<\/p>\n

The visitors were soon in trouble following a cross but Leo Sauer shot over from six yards.<\/p>\n

Celtic responded but McCowan could not control Yang\u2019s cross. <\/p>\n

The former Dundee player made up for his missed chances by playing a key role in Celtic\u2019s 31st-minute equaliser. <\/p>\n

His lofted pass found Hatate, who hooked the ball to the far post where Yang netted from close range.<\/p>\n

Celtic had two major let-offs before going ahead. They were firstly caught on the break, this time with Scales out of position but Ueda\u2019s shot was saved by Kasper Schmeichel.<\/p>\n

Another Ueda shot appeared to hit the hand of Callum McGregor but penalty appeals were waved away.<\/p>\n

Celtic profited from pressing Feyenoord back to their goalkeeper two minutes before half-time when Maeda charged down Timon Wellenreuther\u2019s attempted pass and the ball broke for Hatate, who finished first time from 22 yards.<\/p>\n

With Feyenoord\u2019s most vocal fans locked out and Celtic in front, the travelling fans were making all the noise and their team controlled the opening stages of the second half.<\/p>\n

Engels had a free-kick well saved before the hosts forced some sustained pressure, hitting the bar through Gaoussou Diarra\u2019s header.<\/p>\n

The home side were growing increasingly confident until some positive play from a limping Colby Donovan set up the 82nd-minute clincher.<\/p>\n

Maeda once again disrupted Wellenreuther as the keeper tried to collect the right-back\u2019s low cross and the ball broke for Nygren, who fired in off the bar from eight yards.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Evan Ferguson came off the bench as AS Roma ended Midtjylland\u2019s perfect record in the Europa League with a 2-1 home win on Thursday and a Donyell Malen double earned Aston Villa a 2-1 win over Young Boys where the Swiss away fans disrupted proceedings at Villa Park.<\/p>\n

Zeki Celik\u2019s floated pass into the box was met by the crisp volley of Neil El Aynaoui to put the Serie A leaders in control and Roma looked to have wrapped up the win seven minutes from time with Stephan El Shaarawy\u2019s side-footed finish.<\/p>\n

The visitors pulled one back with three minutes remaining, substitute Paulinho\u2019s goal making for a nervy ending for the home side. El Shaarawy rocked the crossbar with another effort and Roma held on, and are now on nine points.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Midtjylland still hold the lead in the table, but Villa\u2019s win moves the Premier League side level on 12 points with the Danish side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Neill wrote a memorable final postscript in his history with Celtic in Europe as the interim manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2675,41190,15011,61,60,65855,112],"class_list":["post-164009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-celtic","tag-europa-conference-league","tag-europa-league","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-o-neill","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}