As a firm fan of two sports: football and ice hockey, my love of football died a little for me today and not because my team lost. With the fairly upsets we've had this year it took until now to fully reveal just how much money other teams have compared to celtic and other smaller clubs. 100 million euros difference in transfer fee costs or something like that between them. Even then I'd be fine, if uefa wasnt such an obviously corrupt organization. The refereeing in this match and others of recent years not involving celtic have been ridiculous. Everything should be like hockey: salary cap and complete transparency on every issue. Video replays, drug testing and suspensions for diving. etc etc. Either way I'm proud of celtic for making it this far with peanuts. Congrats to lennon for doing his job well.

So nice british highlights there, but where is the manhandling of Pirlo? oh wait...


Celtic should be happy Lich took it upon himself to protect Buffon as if he wasn't there, Hooper would have gotten a certain yellow for a foul on a keeper and it's good night for him.

He could have gone anywhere else. Certainly he wouldn't have been pressured this much if he decided to step back to find some space. He wasn't looking for space, he didn't care about the ball. This is what you get.

The only thing Lich was doing is providing a wall between Buffon and opposing players. That is fully allowed. Of course it's going to get rough if said players go at it even harder. They were looking penalties, it's clear as day.

poor celtic. and what a terrible ref

celtic was unlucky most of the time.

Ambrose thought he was still at the African cup of nations. He used to dribble a lot from the back.

far out that Juventus defender giving the constant hugs during the corner kick would get on my nerves so bad if i was playing..

I think ppl already forgot what Andrea Pirlo said b4 the match and i quote;

"If they want to play football, we'll play football. If they want to go to battle, we're ready to do battle"

And seems to me they were taking Pirlo words for granted

You give Juve a chance and they'll kill you. But I feel for Celtic. Should have gotten a much better result.

respect for celtic, it's been awhile since i saw juve being dominated in the midfield.

our offense can convert those chances efficiently, a rare sight indeed. celtic did well but we displayed an italian style defense. 3 away goals but still, we can't let down our guard

forza grande juve !

If you didn't see the game, you can tell by the highlights who dominated the game. Celtic were excellent, high motor, high emotion. Juve had 4 chances on goal, and realized three of them. Juve is pure class, but Celtic were the dominating team this match

Well played Juve. They played a true away game. Unfortunate Celtic. The score line didn't reflect the actual game..

celtic played well, but Juve was just to much for them

Fair play to Juve, deserved their victory last night. Celtic played a strong game, we bossed the midfield for a lot of the game which was very surprising, but simply lacked the firepower we've previously enjoyed in the tournament. Missing Samaras was a great blow and playing Ambrose was always gambling, specially when we had Matthews fit the whole time.

Ref wasn't great but he wasn't terrible, you have to expect that stuff when you play top Italian sides, it's not a league match and the CL is a different style of the game; it has to cater for all the European leagues's different types of football.

Ultimately it was like a taste of our own medicine, Juve had less chances but made damn sure they took them effectively . It's a shame it's not alive for the second leg now, but you just can't afford to crumble like we did for the last 15 minutes of a champions league game.

The score line doesn't tell the real story. Celtic played much better than 3-0. However, at this level you can't just play with heart. You've got to finish their chances.
Celtic played quite dirty. I can't imagine what Juve will do to them back at Turin in front of an equally loud bianconeri crowd.

Welcome in the real world Celtic.
At this level, u must score your chances. Remember when Barça kicked something like 30 times on goal without scoring, and you were winning 2-0 on your 2 occasions? Well, quite the same.
Juve and PSG seem to be built for this competition. Lethal and intelligence