Celtic sun ɗauki babban mataki zuwa komawa UFC Champions League bayan nasara mai karfi ta 3-0 kan LASK a wasan farko na zagayen play-off, a Celtic Park, ranar Laraba da dare.

Benjamin Nygren ya buɗe raga kafin ɗan wasan Colombian Camilo Duran ya zira kwallaye biyu, yana ba ƙungiyar Martin O'Neill fa'ida mai kyau kafin wasan neman dawowar a Linz Talata mai zuwa.

Farkon wasa mai wahala

Dare ya kusa farawa da mummunan hali ga Hoops. Kusan dakika kaɗan bayan buɗe wasan, Moses Usor ya harba cikin raga — amma tutun offside ta cece Celtic. Daga nan Samuel Adeniran ya tsere daga Cameron Carter-Vickers ya kuma rasa kashi mai kyau, wanda ke nuna niyyar LASK ta farko.

Zakaru na Austria, waɗanda ke neman shiga gasar kofin Turai mafi girma a karon farko, sun nuna haɗari na gaske a duk tsawon wasan — kamar yadda aka tabbatar da shi ta hanyar goalin Adeniran da aka soke a minti na 35 saboda offside.

Nygren da Duran sun karɓi ragamar wasan

Celtic a hankali sun tabbatar da ikon wasan, kuma kwallo ta farko ta zo a minti na 27. Ciyarwar Kieran Tierney ta sami Nygren, wanda ya nanƙwasa ciyarwa ta farko zuwa kusurwar sama ta dama da daidaito na musamman.

Daga nan Duran ya ninka ga 2-0 a minti na 38. LASK sun share ciyarwar Tierney a bangare, amma kwallo ta dawo wurin ɗan wasan Colombian waje da yankin hukunci, kuma ya harba ta cikin raga — goalinsa na farko a Celtic Park.

Mafi kyau ya zo bayan haka. A minti na 67, farmaki mai sauri na Celtic ya ƙare da Duran yana haɗin gwiwa da Kasper Hogh kafin ya kai kwallo cikin nutsuwa zuwa kusurwar nesa. Tare, Duran da Hogh — manyan 'yan wasan da aka kawo a lokacin rani — sun zira kwallaye 10 a Champions League a kakar da ta gabata, kuma suna riga sun nuna daraja su cikin kore da fari.

LASK na ci gaba da haɗari

Duk da rasa 3-0, LASK bai mika wuya ba. An hana Usor ta mai tsaron raga Sinisalo daga kusa ƙwarai a minti na 62, kuma Adeniran ya ci gaba da damun tsaron Celtic a minti na 76. Ƙungiyar Austria za ta buƙaci inganta ingancin jefa kwallo zuwa raga idan ta yi niyyar juya sakamakon a wasan neman dawowar.

Celtic, a nasu bangare, za su kasance masu hankali. An fitar da su a wannan mataki guda shekara 12 da suka wuce, kuma O'Neill zai nemi ƙarfin gwiwa iri ɗaya lokacin da ƙungiyoyin biyu suka sake haduwa a Linz Talata.