Four Findings: Celtic 0-2 Valencia

A rough night at Paradise for Celtic, but a delightful night for Valencia in the first leg of the Round of 32 in the Europa League.

Celtic started the first half hour quite well, gaining some confidence, but failed to create any clear cut chances. Valencia finally settled into the match in the backend of the first half, and got the opener at a very crucial time, right before halftime in minute 42 through Russian World Cup veteran, Denis Cheryshev, who caught Celtic’s back line up far too high.

Valencia came out strong in the second half, putting Celtic in an awful position, after Rubén Sobrino made no mistake from a delightful cross from Cheryshev.

Celtic still failed to create anything, even through substitutions of Timothy Weah, who seemed out of place, and Odsonne Edouard, who looked the mistake likely to score.

Celtic will now be forced with a difficult task of traveling to Mestalla to overturn the 2-0 deficit.