Five things we learned from Celtic Park

in the first half, suddenly had some support and the striker latched onto Ntcham’s pass to barge his way into the penalty area and fire in a shot which was deflected kindly into the arms of Boeckx.

The Anderlecht keeper had to make a far more difficult save in the 56th minute, getting down sharply to his left to keep out a James Forrest shot on the end of Celtic’s most fluent passage of play yet.

But just as it seemed they were finally taking a degree of control, Celtic fell behind six minutes later. A poor clearance by Kieran Tierney gave Anderlecht space down the right and Appiah’s cross found Gerkens, whose header was diverted into his own goal by Simunovic.

There was an opportunity for Simunovic to make amends but he volleyed over from close range, then Dembele shot wide from Tierney’s cutback as Celtic tried to kill off Anderlecht’s hopes of a remarkable turnaround.

The anxiety inside the stadium was almost palpable and Hanni came close to putting Anderlecht within reach of qualification when his shot forced a fine save by Gordon. Mercifully for Celtic, it was as close as they came to conceding a second goal which would have made the finale of the evening unbearably tense.

ANDERLECHT SURPRISED US