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1st Leg of two, Quarter-finals
Trivia
- Celtic first Quarter-final since 1974 in the European Cup.
- All 67,000 tickets sold within days of their sale in January 1980.
- Our last great victory in the European competition till the 2000's.
- Real arrived in Glasgow on the Tuesday lunchtime. Greeted by a piper, and the complete staff of the Renfrew Hotel, where they were staying, turned out for them on arrival at the hotel.Captain Pirri would play despite picking up an ankle injury on the weekend. They trained at Lesser Hampden under floodlights.
- Bobby Lennox and Real captain Pirri are sole survivors from Di Stefano's testimonial in 1967.
- Real's manager, Vujadin Boskov, was the Vojjvodina manager when they lost to Celtic in the ECQF in 1967.
- England boss Ron Greenwood is in the stand to watch Laurie Cunningham.
- Real turn out in unfamiliar all blue kit.
- STV bid to show the game live but the Celtic board refused saying that they would be letting down the capacity 67,000 crowd who had already bought their tickets.
Review
Latchford kept Celts in the game in the first half as Real impressed. However Celtic blew them away in the second half and only a disputed disallowed goal from McAdam prevented Celtic taking a 3-0 lead to Madrid.
MacLeod and Aitken were tireless in midfield and Provan worked the flank well. Danny McGrain used his considerable experience to keep Real danger man Laurie Cunningham quiet.
Both Celtic's goals came through Sneddon overlaps. For the first goal Ramon spilled Sneddon's shot for McCluskey to score and for the second Sneddon delivered a fine cross for Doyle to run and head in spectacularly.
Celtic had grown stronger as the game went on and given their inexperience at this level this was magnificent result. The fans rushed home to watch extended highlights on STV.
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, Sneddon, McGrain, Aitken, MacDonald, McAdam, Provan, McCluskey, Lennox, MacLeod, Doyle . Subs: Bonner, Lynch, Davidson, Burns, Casey
Goals: McCluskey (52), Doyle (74)
Real Madrid:
Ramon, Sabido, Pirri, Benito, Camacho, Steilike, Angel, Del Bosque, Juanito, Santillana, Cunningham. Subs: Miguel Angel, Isidro, Rincon, Roberto, Martinez
Referee: Latanzi (Italy)
Attendance: 67,000 all ticket
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
Pictures
Evening Times 6th March 1980
