Article by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official Reporter @ MUFCINFO.COM

Manchester United left Glasgow perhaps wondering how again only one point was earned as the Champions Of Europe, after a slow spluttering 1st half combined of course with some heroic home defending, eventually found a new gear as Celtic tried to weather an All Blue Storm which ended after 90 minutes with a whopping 28 attempts on goal.  The Home side opened the scoring with Scott McDonalds quality finish on 13 minutes before Ryan Giggs one of United's poorer players on the night more than deservingly leveled for United with 5 minutes left.

SAF had made some key changes to the team with an eye on Arsenal on Saturday as Rafael, JOS, Darren Fletcher, Giggs & Tevez all made starts leaving, Rooney, Evra, Anderson, Berbatov on a rather attractive & mighty bench.

With Villarreal drawing with Aalborg 2-2 this now means United only require one point from their last three games to enter the knockout stages.

United had an opening Ronaldo free kick sail over as their 1st chance after Darren Fletcher was fouled by Barry Robson and as the game began to settle, poor choices & passes in the final third kept Celtic alive for the rest of the game.

The home side, proudly displaying banners around Celtic Park such as "We Won it first" & Lisbon 67 were whipped into an early frenzy with brilliant finishing as a clearance by Vidic from a Celtic free kick was headed back into the box, Gary Caldwell then with a clever header fed McDonald who beat Ben Foster with a piece of individual brilliance.

United in their All Blue Strip to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Triumph began the "missed chances show" as Rio
Ferdinand somehow skied his shot over from three yards, his central defensive partner Nemanja Vidic had a header cleared off the line as United got into a stride .

With Fletcher & Carrick being hounded in midfield, Celtic threatened with a Maloney shot directly at Foster after good work on the left, the United keeper was a he probably had wished for a busy night collecting shots & crosses in the 1st period

Celtic managing United's forwards well defended brilliantly, as time and time again the final ball into danger areas cannoned off or was met with towering defensive headers from Celtics centre half's or impressive midfield toilers.

Such was the defensive effort of the Celts saw the final statistics show 14 blocked shots.

With United trailing & SAF obviously wanting victory in his home town the United manager brought on the Vampire of Bulgaria for a inspired piece of magic & the Bulgarian genius visually gave UNited the extra edge in his link up play .

Celtic still feeding from the ear shredding noise supplied by the home support had another Maloney shot saved as United moved up a gear.

Tevez had a dangerous cross cut out & Ronaldo made keeper Boruc save, Berbatov flicked a ball goal bound which was cleared off the line by the impressive Maloney.

Under no show of cracking defensively the battering continued for Celtic and as one West Cumbria Red, Mr Graeme Todhunter stated, "this is the most one sided game of football I have ever saw in my 28 years", in your reporters opinion Celtic were defending in the same comparison of the game last season in Barcelona, where one side attacks & the other defends & tries to knick a goal on the break.  Celtic had gotten their goal & defended with the same resulting accolades that Carlos Tevez & Ji Sung Park we so applauded for by United fans last season.

If you cant score with your possession & boy did we have possession, you wont win games.

Celtic with limited time on the ball almost took a two nil lead when Caldwell headed over a Maloney corner.

SAF then baffled everyone as in your reporters opinion MOTM (if he had 90 minutes) Carlos Tevez was taken off for Wayne Rooney, who earlier warming up in front of the United fans was requested to "Kiss the badge" & the Skinheed obliged with a big kiss of his shirt & badge which was met with frenzied cheers.

Shortly after coming on Rooney had Boruc turn a shot around the post as the White Pele blasted a shot from outside the box,

With the story oh so familiar United attack, Celtic defend, the Reds finally got a deserved goal when Ronaldo smashed a swerving drive at Boruc who could not hang on to the shot & & like a predator Ryan Giggs with possibly his only telling piece of the night nodded the ball over the line putti8ng United one foot in the KO Stages door.

The game could have been turned upside down for the home side with the last kick of the match as Berbatov unexpectedly found himself in space in the box, but his turn & shot never tested a thank full Celtic Park as both side shares the points.

A big up goes to

Dave Whelan, Mark "Legend" Gate, Grant Thompson, Weighty, Steve Abbott, Toddy, Tinker, Neal Fearon, Mike, Niffy & Diane from Sims coaches for the Driving!!!.
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