Celtic are through to the play-offs for the Champions League group stage, but they didn’t exactly make it easy on themselves.
Penalty kicks in each half from Leigh Griffiths and Moussa Dembele saw Celtic score a 2-1 victory over Astanaon the night (3-2 agg), but for a long period of the game it was squeaky bum time for the Hoops.
It was looking a bit grim for Celtic when Craig Gordon’s poor clearance fell kindly for Agim Ibraimi, who proceeded to lob the shot-stopper from 40 yards out.
Here’s the goal captured using some sort of potato, possibly a Maris Piper.
Fuuuuuuuck pic.twitter.com/o6RKcvZyeP
— ByTheMinute Celtic (@ByTheMinCeltic) August 3, 2016
However, the goal came just over a minute after new boy Kolo Toure entered the fray, which sparked an endless slew of the obvious joke which quickly became hackneyed on social media.
Kolo Toure, incredible signing.@Oldfirmfacts1 pic.twitter.com/okc1uXqf30
— R (@RangersFCReady) August 3, 2016
60 mins: Kolo Toure comes on
62 mins: Astana score pic.twitter.com/TVnRQFlass
— connor forsyth (@connor_forsyth) August 3, 2016
Kolo toure on at 61mins that team score 62 mins 😂😂😂
— Kyle Fee (@kylefee3) August 3, 2016
Rogers brings on kolo toure in the 61st min by the 62nd they concede 😂😂😂
— Shane Morrison (@ShaneMorrison19) August 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/RogerJamie/status/760936482836283396
Within a minute of Kolo Toure coming on, Celtic concede…
— Steven. (@StevenLDN) August 3, 2016
Ok, ok, you get the idea.
Fortunately for Celtic, they managed to avoid extra-time in the 11th hour of the game courtesy of a spot-kick from Moussa Dembele following Igor Shitov’s sending off.
https://twitter.com/Eqoze/status/760945014352609280?lang=en
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