Spartak Moscow 2-3 Celtic

Georgios Samaras scored a last minute
winner as Celtic beat Spartak Moscow
3-2 in a Champions League Group G
thriller at the Luzhniki Stadium.
Scott Brown picked up a loose ball in
the middle of the Spartak half and sent
a pass wide to Emilio Izaguirre to
deliver a curling centre for Samaras
whose downward header from 12
yards beat Sergei Pesyakov at full
stretch.
Celtic had opened the scoring with
their first constructive attack on 12
minutes when Victory Wanyama won a
50-50 challenge and laid the ball to
Mikael Lustig whose low delivery was
turned into the far corner by Gary
Hooper.
The visitors were arguably denied a
penalty when Kris Commons was
challenged Yevgeny Makeyev as he
skipped past the Spartak defender,
before Hooper had the ball in the net
again from a Samaras chip across the
area only to be denied by the offside
flag.
Despite dominating possession Spartak
had offered little threat but Emmanuel
Emenike should have hit the target
when he stole a march on Kelvin
Wilson to get a slight connection on
Dmitry Kombarov's cross.
But Spartak hit back when Kim
Kallstrom picked out Ari with a superb
lofted pass over Wilson and the striker
cushioned the ball across the box for
Emenike (41) to tap home.
The hosts struck again three minutes
after the break when Fraser Forster
parried a drive from Ari and Demy de
Zeeuw squared the rebound across
the six-yard box for Emenike to net
from two yards.
Efe Ambrose headed over from a
Charlie Mulgrew free-kick before Juan
Insaurralde (63) was eventually
dismissed after pulling down Hooper
as he raced through on goal.
Celtic drew level eight minutes later as
Samaras stepped over Mulgrew's low
centre and Hooper spun to feed James
Forrest, whose first touch of the match
saw the ball spin off Sergei Pesyakov's
foot against Dmitri Kombarov into the
net.