Real Madrid 5-1 Celtic: Scottish champions routed in final group game

Rodrygo's punishment had Real Madrid 2 goals up aft 21 minutes

Celtic ended a frustrating Champions League run successful grim manner arsenic Real Madrid handed retired a unsmooth acquisition to assertion triumph and apical Group F.

Josip Juranovic past missed a spot-kick for Celtic, and that seemed a distant representation erstwhile Marco Asensio, Vinicius Junior, and Federico Valverde made it a rout for the defending champions, adjacent though Jota netted a precocious free-kick.

Carlo Ancelotti's broadside turned connected the benignant successful the 2nd fractional against an progressively bushed and unfastened Celtic, who decorativeness bottommost of the conception with 2 points and nary wins successful their six matches.

Real, though, march connected successful their quest for a 15th European rubric having earned the triumph that guarantees apical spot successful the group.

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With 2 points from 5 matches, Celtic knew not adjacent a celebrated triumph would widen their enactment successful Europe, but their fans inactive travelled successful hope, with acold much than the authoritative 1,848 allocation seemingly wrong the Bernabeu.

The upwind was taken retired their sails with conscionable 4 minutes connected the clock. In attempting to artifact Valverde's tame shot, Moritz Jenz got himself successful an atrocious twist and handled the ball. Modric showed his customary coolness to slot home.

The visitors responded well, fashioning decent openings for Kyogo Furuhashi and Reo Hatate, but neither could occupation Thibaut Courtois successful the Real goal.

In fact, the occupation was astir to deepen for Celtic. Rodrygo's onslaught struck the limb of Matt O'Riley and, though not rather arsenic intelligibly arsenic the Jenz incident, the result was the same. This clip Rodrygo converted the penalty.

Vinicius missed an implicit sitter conscionable a infinitesimal aboriginal arsenic Real threatened to tally distant with it successful the opening half-hour.

Celtic had to get up the transportation and did truthful to large effect arsenic Hatate robbed the shot to let Daizan Maeda to enactment Kyogo through. However Courtois stood gangly and was besides adjacent to Hatate's piledriver from the borderline of the container moments later.

Then a immense accidental for Celtic. Liel Abada's surge to the bye-line was checked by a foul by Ferland Mendy. It was a 3rd punishment successful a brainsick archetypal half, but Courtois foiled the Scottish champions again, diving to his close to propulsion distant Juranovic's spot-kick.

Six minutes aft the break, Real enactment the crippled beyond immoderate small uncertainty inactive existed with their 3rd goal. Dani Carvajal ghosted to the bye-line and his sliding transverse teed-up Asensio to occurrence past Joe Hart.

Vinicius added different aft stealing up of Carl Starfelt to flash successful a teasing Valverde transverse earlier Real summoned Ballon D'or victor Karim Benzema from the seat connected his instrumentality from injury.

The Madridistas were enjoying themselves and Valverde added to that - and piled further symptom connected the visitors - erstwhile helium curled a gorgeous effort beyond Hart and into the net.

The Celtic fans could beryllium forgiven for begging for the last whistle, but Jota gave them thing to cheer erstwhile helium curled a fantastic free-kick past Courtois.

It was a beauteous infinitesimal for the Portuguese winger and gave the visiting supporters thing to cheer, but it was nary much than a consolation connected a nighttime erstwhile the gulf betwixt the champions of Scotland and the champions of Europe was laid bare.

Player of the lucifer - Federico Valverde

Valdverde's superb onslaught was the prime of Real's 5 goals and helium was progressive successful overmuch of their champion work

Ifs, buts and maybes for wasteful Celtic - analysis

The question heading into this Champions League run was whether Celtic's relentless attacking benignant would clasp up against Europe's finest. Two points from a imaginable 18, 4 goals scored, and 15 conceded successful six radical games would suggest not.

It is not a batch to amusement from a radical galore fans thought they whitethorn person had a decent accidental of emerging from.

But Celtic person have been competitory for spells of each lucifer and, had they taken a fewer much of the galore chances they created, immoderate of those games whitethorn good person had a much affirmative outcome.

Ifs, buts and maybes. Celtic's 3 opponents would constituent retired they besides had galore chances implicit and supra the ones they took, arsenic was the lawsuit again successful Madrid.

Ange Postecoglou volition beryllium heartened that galore of his players person not looked retired of spot successful the club's archetypal group-stage quality successful 5 years, but this squad is inactive abbreviated of the prime they request crook opportunities spurned into points.

Match stats

• Real person won each 3 of location radical signifier matches successful a Champions League play for the archetypal clip since 2015-16, a play successful which they went connected to triumph the competition.
• Celtic person mislaid their past six Champions League matches against Spanish opponents, conceding 24 goals portion scoring conscionable 2 successful return.
• Real person finished apical of their Champions League radical for 3 consecutive seasons (2020-21 to 2022-23) for the archetypal clip since betwixt 2013-14 and 2015-16.
• Celtic conceded 2 punishment goals aft 20 minutes and 47 seconds against Real Madrid, the earliest a broadside has ever fto successful 2 penalties successful a Champions League match.
• Real manager Carlo Ancelotti enjoyed his 102nd Champions League win, going level with Sir Alex Ferguson for astir wins successful the past of the contention by a manager.
• At the property of 37 years and 54 days, Modric became the oldest Champions League scorer since Francesco Totti successful November 2014 for Roma against CSKA Moscow (38y 59d).
• Modric is the 3rd oldest scorer for Real successful the European Cup/Champions League (37 years, 54 days), down lone Ferenc Puskas successful 1965 (38y 173d) and Alfredo Di Stefano successful 1964 (37y 308d).

What's next?

With their European run implicit for this season, Celtic big Dundee United connected Saturday (15:00 GMT).

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