Arsenal removed Celtic from Europe's premier competition by winning handsomely at the Emirates. However, there was a good deal of controversy about their opening goal. A neat move on the edge of the box saw Eduardo (the Brazilian-cum-Croatian) over hit the ball towards Artur Boruc. Boruc went down to collect the ball whereupon Eduardo dived. The Spanish referee, Gonzalez, who made a glaring error in the Scotland-Italy match in 2007, awarded a penalty kick. Television proved conclusively that the 'Croat did a Borat' to con the ref. Eduardo outfoxed Boruc with the kick. Celtic had the ball in the net a few minutes later but the flag for offside was raised correctly.
The 300
0 or so Celtic fans in the 59,960 crowd were in good voice throughout but saw Arsenal finally score a 'proper' goal when neat footwork from Bendtner helped set up Eboue who scored from 12 yards. Arshavin came on after that and scored a third to wrap the whole tie up. In the very last move of the match, Loovens lofted in a crossfield ball which Donati dispatched with aplomb. Celtic now enter the inaugural Europa League. The draw is at 12 noon (GMT) on Friday.Celtic: Boruc, Hinkel, Loovens, Caldwell (O'Dea 46), Fox, McGeady (Flood 60), Brown, Donati, Maloney (Naylor 60), McDonald, Fortune
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