Brendan Rodgers described Celtic’s loss to Lazio as “devastating” with their Champions League marketing campaign faltering once more in Glasgow.
Pedro’s Ninety fifth-minute header yanked some extent away from the hosts, who simply minutes earlier thought that they had clinched a winner themselves by Luis Palma just for VAR to intervene.
As a substitute Celtic stay backside of Group E on zero factors.
“We’re bitterly disenchanted,” stated the Celtic supervisor.
“To concede late on like we did, it is actually harsh on us. However, there may be studying there, it’s important to safe the ball within the recreation and in the event you’re not going to win it at that stage, you actually cannot lose it.
“The gamers gave all the things, we now have the mentality, all the things. I am simply disenchanted for the gamers and supporters that we could not get the consequence.
“It was a devastating approach to lose a recreation as a result of we deserved one thing from it, however we’ll analyse it and study the teachings from it.”
Kyogo Furuhashi battered the ball past Ivan Provedel to open the scoring, just for Matias Vecino to stage earlier than half-time.
Celtic edged a cagey second half earlier than a drama-filled ultimate 10 minutes, with a protracted offside name and a last-gasp Lazio winner compounding Rodgers’ anguish.
The Northern Irishman’s aspect now head into a vital double header with Atletico Madrid, who beat Celtic’s conquerors from match day one, Feyenoord, 3-2 in Spain.
“We had been beneath no illusions initially of the competitors the place we sat,” he stated. “I stated initially our concept was to qualify for European soccer, and that is nonetheless the ambition and mentality.
“We now have proven over the 2 video games in opposition to good sides that we will compete. If we will simply tidy up one or two moments and possibly get a little bit of luck, we are going to nonetheless struggle in each single recreation to get that qualification.”
