MATCH 1517 - Saturday, 27th July 2013

Season 2013/14
FRIENDLY
Venue:  CELTIC PARK

       

 

                 Celtic    1   Borussia Monchengladbach   2    

Scorers:  Stokes; Xhaka, Hrgota

 

A number of new faces in the Celtic ranks for the small Celtic Park crowd to view.  And it was one of the youngsters Darnell Fisher playing at right back that impressed most. 

 

Borussia Monchengladbach had a very healthy following with them as they enjoyed the baulk of the possession in a typical pre-season encounter.  Both clubs made a host of substitutes in the second half.  The pick of the goals came from Xhaka who's swerving passing shot was too good for Zulaska as it clipped the under side of the bar and put the German side 1 up. Younes (No. 25) also impressed with his movement and skill during his 63 minutes of action.



 

Overall Borussia fully deserved their win.

 

CELTIC:

 Zaluska; Fisher, Mouyokolo, Ambrose (Mulgrew 46), Waters (Matthews 63); Herron (Henderson 68), Brown (Stokes 46), McGregor (Ledley 63), Commons (McGeouch 46); Balde (Atajic 81)Watt

   
 BORUSSIA MONCHENGLADBACH:

 ter Stegen; Basket (Wendt 71), Stranzl, Dominguez (Brouwers 71),Daems (de Jong 71); Raphael, Kramer, Xhaka (Herrmann 63), Younes (Nordtveit 63); Kruse (Jantschke 71), Rupp (Hrgota 63)

 

On a personal note:  This was my first time seeing Borussia Monchengladbach