IT DOZEN’T GET EASIER TO WATCH

CELTIC fans have seen the movie before. And on this occasion their team managed to contrive a footballing remake of the Dirty Dozen.

That’s 12 games on German soil since 1976 and not a single win to show for all their efforts.

It was a familiar football plotline. Opening scenes of brave endeavour, the underdog competing against the odds to give hope of a happy ending.

But then the familiar sting in the tale – chaotic moments in defence to undo all the good work and the credits were soon rolling on another away defeat.

There were stages where Brendan Rodgers’s side looked every bit as competent as their Bundesliga rivals.

The first half-hour was bright. There was no real panic for Craig Gordon and his defence. RB Leipzig for all the hype looked ordinary and short of the quality shown by stablemates Salzburg.

However, the age-old failing of losing cheap goals came back to haunt a Celtic side now up against it in their aim to make the last 32 for a second season in a row.

It was a fragile-looking Celtic team that tried to grab the Red Bull by the horns and get their Europa League campaign running in the right direction.

With no Scott Brown, James Forrest, Leigh Griffiths, Tom Rogic or Filip Benkovic in the starting line-up an inexperienced side took the field.

The 4000 Celtic fans who marched the half-hour route from the Marktplatz to the Red Bull Arena did so in hope rather than expectation.

And all the early promise of a fairly comfortable opening period was then wiped away by two Leipzig goals in a few calamitous minutes for Celtic before the break.

By that stage the night had turned as sour as the local Gose beer as the trip ended in the usual away-day agony.

In the city where Friedrich von Schiller penned the words of Ode to Joy there was another painful lament for the Scottish champions.

RB SALZBURG ........ 3 ROSENBORG ......... 0

MUNAS DABBUR’S deadly double ensured Red Bull maintained their 100 per cent record in Group B.

The Israel striker headed the Austrians in front in 34 minutes before Hannes Wolf fired past Rosenborg keeper Andre Hansen from a difficult angle shortly after the break.

Dabbur sealed the victory from the spot after Norwegian defender Even Hovland brought down Amadou Haidara after 59 minutes.

The emphatic win keeps Salzburg top on nine points and Rosenborg rock bottom on zero.