{"id":397679,"date":"2026-01-29T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:17:08","slug":"celtic-vs-utrecht-uefa-europa-league-radio-coverage-live-text-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397679\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic vs Utrecht: UEFA Europa League radio coverage &#038; live text commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Neill called for his players to go for it pre-match with qualification on the line and they flew out of the blocks against the Dutch outfit, who finish their European campaign with just one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nygren tapped home Kieran Tierney&#8217;s cross from close range and they doubled their advantage when former Celtic goalkeeper Vasilis Barkas found Nygren with a slack pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swedish midfielder tried to square it for Daizen Maeda, but it was instead turned in by Viergever as the visitors compounded the initial error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">De Wit was then penalised for handball after a video assistant review (VAR) and Engels dispatched the penalty to put Celtic in total control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Or so it seemed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schmeichel was unmoved as De Wit&#8217;s shot found the bottom corner and although he made an excellent save to tip Niklas Vesterlund&#8217;s header round the post, he was unable to keep out Blake&#8217;s shot down to his left and Celtic&#8217;s comfortable lead was suddenly nervy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Trusty climbed highest to nod in a fourth and Celtic managed the remainder of the game to make sure their European campaign continues for two more matches at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill called for his players to go for it pre-match with qualification on the line and they flew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-397679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}