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Daniel Arzani reacts to Celtic return after scoring screamer against former club

Ex-Celtic winger Daniel Arzani scored at Parkhead (Image: Stuart Wallace/Shutterstock)

Celtic flop Daniel Arzani admitted he was delighted to score in his first-ever game at Parkhead after he helped Ferencvaros to an opening day win.

The Hungarian side plunged the Hoops into crisis after their Old Firm defeat, by scoring another three goals...just as Rangers had done last weekend.

Arzani had an injury-disrupted spell at Celtic and his only two games were at Dundee and Partick Thistle in sub appearances.

And the Australian attacker was thrilled to score on his Parkhead bow in the 3-1 win.

He said: "I'm happy that I was able to experience what I didn't know about here before.

"For me, it was an amazing occasion.

"We played some high quality football and the team spirit was great.

"I am just so happy to have been a part of it."

And Ferencvaros keeper, Adam Varga, revealed they knew they would initially get a Celtic backlash.


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He said: "The game went exactly as we expected because we were very well prepared tactically.

"Celtic's passes were not accurate and we didn't allow them to play long balls over us.

"We expected Celtic to attack us from kick off and they did. We knew after their defeat at the weekend, everything was on the line for them.

"But we held them off and the pressure eased after that.

"We had to stay focused until the end, but scoring that goal just before half time meant we went into the dressing room with a mental advantage and we made the most of the second half."

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