Maybe it is apt for a group who're dab palms at taking part in aggressive fixtures throughout this time of summer season to be experiencing friendlies with an additional edge.
Saturday's madcap 3-3 draw with Fast Vienna noticed Premiership champions Celtic face a group who had been hell-bent on incomes a consequence as if group stage soccer was on the road. And there was no time to calm down for Ange Postecoglou 's troops as they jumped out the frying pan and into the fryer towards Banik Ostrava on Wednesday.
The Centurions had been celebrating their a hundredth anniversary and a raucous 15,000 crowd introduced pyro...and a punch up with one another! Sure, a number of supporters had been noticed getting handsy with one another earlier than kick off. They usually by no means let up even when Postecoglou's males piled up the possibilities and ultimately the objectives throughout an thrilling 4-2 win over the Czech Premier League facet. And that is to not point out the bathroom roll that crammed the pitch within the first half.
The fisticuffs from the stands had been fortunately not replicated once more however Ostrava had been hell-bent on in search of a house benefit to rejoice 100 years. A smoke present adopted Kyogo's equaliser and there is a robust case they helped put Matt O'Riley off as his imaginative and prescient was restricted amid a menacing cost into the field, nonetheless, he handed to nobody in seek for a team-mate amid the smog.
However the noise from the stands did little to quell a Celtic facet heading to the Champions League and the gang had little response to the objectives from Kyogo, O'Riley, Liel Abada and Giorgos Giakoumakis.
Celtic boss Postecoglou praised the crescendo which engulfed his gamers however was fast to notice he was savouring a return to Parkhead towards Blackburn on Saturday.
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