Soccer · Englandsoccer
Celtic progress in Champions League qualifier
Wednesday, 6 August 2003 22:07Celtic booked their place in the final qualifying stages of the Champions League when beat Kaunas 1-0 tonight - 5-0 on aggregate. The hard work for this tie had been taken care of last week when Celtic returned from Lithuania with a comfortable 4-0 win under their belts and their place in next week's third qualifying round against MTK Hungaria all but secure.
Such was the Parkhead side's confidence that they would progress, that manager Martin O'Neill was missing from the dug-out, believed to have flown to Finland to watch next week's opponents send HJK Helsinki out of the competition.
But they were aided tonight by the unlikely source of Darius Gvildys who nodded past his own goalkeeper for the only goal of the game.
