Zlatan Ibrahimovic Delights at Malmo Putting Celtic Out of Champions League

Commons, a second-half substitute, added: “No, I didn’t feel stressed”.

“I think it was a clear goal but mistakes are part of football sometimes the referee makes mistakes”. We have high expectations at this club and we need to try to deal with it. “They came into the game knowing that they needed a goal, whereas we were trying to do just enough to keep a clean sheet”. But it wasn’t to be.

The former Derby and Nottingham Forest player denied personally feeling the pressure.

“Yeah it should have stood but like I said there’s no excuses”, he said.

“I don’t care whether he gets on with Van Gaal or not, as long as he scores goals”.

“It wasn’t to be”.

It is the second successive year Celtic have fallen at this hurdle and the Scottish champions must now be content with a place in the draw for the group stages of the Europa League. That’s what we have to look at.

After his first attempt at Champions League qualification resulted in two aggregate defeats previous year, a 6-1 humiliation at the hands of Legia Warsaw overturned due to an administrative error by the Poles before losing again to Maribor of Slovenia, Deila was also allowed to arrange his own pre-season programme this time around. “The last time at Celtic Park they even beat us, so we’ll be looking to rectify that and definitely bounce back”.

The former Dundee United winger told the club’s official website: “It’s still a big competition”. We need to go away and have a big chat, learn from that and take everything on.

“There are a lot of great teams in the tournament and we want to improve ourselves on the European stage”.

“I’m ashamed of our performance”.