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- An embarrassing defeat that just illustrated just how poor we had sunk. A team that was without a win so far this season and propping up the table like folder card at the bottom easily overcame Celtic.
Review
An embarrassing defeat that just illustrated just how poor we had sunk. A team that was without a win so far this season in the Bundesliga and propping up the table like a folder card at the bottom easily overcame Celtic.
Teams
Cologne:
Illgner; Higl, Heldt (Weiser 89), Baumann, Jensen, Rudy, Flick, Lehmann (Sturm 87), Steinmann, Littbarski, Ordenewitz.
Scorers: Jensen (23), Ordenewitz (81)
Celtic:
Marshall; Boyd, Wdowczyk, Galloway, Mowbray, Gillespie, O'Neil (Gran 75), McStay, Slater (Nicholas 75), Creaney, Collins.
Referee: V Zhuk (Bielorus).
Att: 26,000
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
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Articles
“Lowly Cologne like men against Bhoys”
The Guardian (London, England) (Sept 16, 1992):
Byline: PATRICK GLENN in Cologne
Cologne 2, Celtic 0.
A COLOGNE team propping up the Bundesliga without a win in six games found Celtic a soft target last night in the Mungersdorfer Stadium. The Germans were transformed from narrow odds-on to overwhelming favourites to progress to the second round with a second goal seven minutes from the end of a game in which the Scots' defence again looked alarmingly vulnerable.
Cologne would have been fancied in any event to protect the advantage they established in the first half because of their ability to mass behind the ball whenever opponents take possession.
If they were able to demonstrate this art so strikingly on their own ground, it is not unreasonable to assume that they will be even more effective when they travel. Liam Brady, the Celtic manager, said after his team had beaten Ekeren of Belgium 20 in the first round of this tournament last season that it was a lead that no team of any standing should surrender. 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life,' sang the 5,000 or so Celtic followers – a fifth of the 26,000 crowd – after watching Jensen and Ordenewitz score the goals that seem likely to eliminate their favourites.
If there was an element of outrageous fortune about the second goal, everybody at Celtic will have to own up that, on the night, they presented little threat. Indeed, they created only one genuine opening, a solo effort by Collins in the 39th minute; the little midfielder turned inside Higl on the left and prompted a fine save from Illgner with a ferocious drive from 20 yards. By then the visitors were already behind.
The goal came from a corner on the right from Ordenewitz. Marshall, who had accepted the blame for the goals that beat Celtic last Saturday, again looked under-active as Jensen was allowed to nod the ball over the line from inside the six-yard box.
But there was little the goalkeeper could do about the second goal. Steinmann, sprung down the left by Heldt, was lucky to escape Collins before his centre was deflected by Boyd. The ball spun eccentrically away from Marshall and Mowbray towards Ordenewitz, who fell forward and only just managed to reach it with his head to send it bouncing slowly over the line.