{"id":21733,"date":"2025-10-03T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21733"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:04:02","slug":"celtic-lose-at-home-to-braga-in-europa-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21733","title":{"rendered":"Celtic lose at home to Braga in Europa League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Celtic slumped to a 2-0 loss against Braga in the Europa League on Thursday to leave Brendan Rodgers&#8217; side with just one point from their first two games.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish champions fell behind at Parkhead to a dipping long-range strike from Ricardo Horta that beat goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel far too easily.<\/p>\n<p>Kelechi Iheanacho had an equaliser controversially ruled out early in the second half after a VAR review for a supposed handball.<\/p>\n<p>But Celtic&#8217;s hopes of salvaging a result were dashed when substitute Gabri Martinez scored a scrappy late second goal for the Portuguese visitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We conceded the goal and, after that, we never recovered in the first half,&#8221; Rodgers told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second half&#8230; we were much better. We had chances, but of course, when you&#8217;re chasing the game, they break and they get the second goal. So, a really disappointing performance for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Celtic have failed to score in five of their 12 games in all competitions this season, which included a pair of goalless draws against Kairat Almaty in the Champions League play-off round.<\/p>\n<p>The Kazakh side won that tie on penalties to condemn Celtic to a place in the Europa League.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic slumped to a 2-0 loss against Braga in the Europa League on Thursday to leave Brendan Rodgers&#8217; side with just one point from their first two games. The Scottish champions fell behind at Parkhead to a dipping long-range strike from Ricardo Horta that beat goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel far too easily. Kelechi Iheanacho had an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}