There has been plenty of sympathy for Celtic across the globe after their Champions League dream came to a crashing halt against RB Leipzig on Tuesday night.
Ange Postecoglou set up his team to go for the throat against the Bundesliga side and aided by an sizzling Parkhead atmosphere that seemed to knock the visitors out of their stride from the minute the competition's famous anthem rang out, they initially threatened to breathe fire into their European campaign.
But as was the case against Shakhtar in Poland, chance after chance came and went. Matt O'Riley rattled the post, Greg Taylor skelped the crossbar, and Daizen Maeda headed over all in the space of a few first-half seconds that summed up how their group stage campaign has played out so far in a nutshell.
