Exit after leaving themselves another mountain to climb
is required – evidence that they’re capable of points gathering in the savage politics of playing away from home in European football.
If ever the surroundings failed to paint a picture of the pain that was about to come Celtic’s way this was it.
This was Julie Andrews territory. But the hills were anything but alive to the Sound of Music for Celtic fans on hearing their captain Brown had failed to recover from a tight hamstring.
Rock Me Amadeus belted out the sound system as a nod toward’s the city’s most famous son. Mozart would have been impressed by an opening few minutes that had Celtic hitting the high notes within two minutes.
Odsonne Edouard bulllevel dozed past Andre Ramalho to slip home the opener.
A pattern was then set of Red Bull being restricted to potshots from distance with Celtic operating a defensive shutdown.
The Austrians were proving a formidable test for a Celtic side that spent long spells camped in their own half in the exhausting role as ball chasers. Backs to the wall it may have been but it wasn’t without the odd attacking foray of their own.
And only a linesman’s flag prevented Edouard adding a second before half-time.
After the interval Munas Dabbur dragged his side level with a low shot under Craig Gordon’s body.
It was a 13th goal in all competitions for the Israeli striker who will get up close and personal with Scotland on Thursday.
It was to get worse. Takumi Minamino made the most of Celtic’s latest failure to deal with a low cross by slamming home then the tie was knocked out of reach with Dabbur’s penalty and a red card for James Forrest.
Another Euro away day and another Celtic side left empty-handed. HENRIK LARSSON is working in football again – but has revealed he won’t receive a penny.
The legendary Celtic striker, 47, has been appointed coach of Swedish minnows Angelholm where he will assist manager Alexander Tengryd.
He is happy to have returned to the game having been out since 2016 and his ill-fated spell in charge of Helsingborgs.
Larsson said: “I have no contract with Angelholm and they do not pay me anything.
“But I like working with Alex.”