Celtic put their first Champions League point on the board in Warsaw - but return to Glasgow with a lingering sense of what may have been.
The Premiership champions, smarting from a 3-0 defeat to Real Madrid on opening night, bossed Shakhtar Donetsk for long periods but were unable to turn another positive performance into a victory. Reo Hatate forced an early own goal off Artem Bondarenko as Ange Postecoglou's side started like a train, only to be pegged back by the electric Mykhaylo Mudryk.
Former Celt Marian Shved had a quickfire second correctly ruled out moments later as Shakhtar threatened to come to life but the in-form Ukrainians were otherwise disappointing, not least because they'd routed RB Leipzig 4-1 just a week ago. But that also speaks to Celtic's quality as they again showed they can live at the elite level. They now face RB Leipzig home and away in a pair of fixtures likely to determine an already tight Group F's direction of travel. A point here is by no means a setback, but Celtic will perhaps wonder if they could have made their dominance count for something more.
