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Listen to Sportsound Baumgartner heads in opener but Kuhn lifts in stunning leveller before giving hosts lead before break Hatate forces in third after Gulacsi spills Johnston cross Rodgers' side now have seven points from opening four games Leipzig yet to register a point in league phase Nick Mc Pheat Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Callum Mc Gregor drives past three Leipzig players and sets up Nicolas Kuhn for a potential hat-trick. The winger fires way over. Some run from Mc Gregor though. Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Antonio Nusa bends one to the back post and Kasper Schmeichel punches clear. Brave goalkeeping. Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Away we go again. If we get anything like the first half, we're in for another fun 45 minutes. HT: Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Christoph Baumgartner put Leipzig ahead at Celtic Park, but a lot has happened since then. HT: Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Jane Lewis BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park The noise from the home fans as the Celtic players left the pitch for half time was deafening. Nicholas Kuhn has been the star of the show with his two goals, but what a phenomenal team effort from all 11 players out there. They battled back after RB Leipzig took the lead and looked a bit spooked. Bring on the second half! HT: Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Scott Brown Former Celtic captain on TNT Sports If I'm a Celtic player, I'm giving Nicolas Kuhn the ball. He's on flames today. HT: Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig James Mc Fadden Former Scotland forward on BBC Sportsound It's another outstanding goal. Celtic put the pressure on, win it back. It comes to Hatate outside the box, but he plays a perfect pass for Taylor to cut it back. We gave the big build-up to Kuhn, and he's in the right spot at the right time to slot it away. It's such a good goal from Celtic's point of view. It's everything they want to be - a team that presses, a team that hurts you with intricate passes. HT: Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Pat Nevin Former Scotland winger on BBC Sportsound If you want to know how to do closing down high up the pitch, get a video of that. You don't do it any better than that. That's world class. HT: Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Joe Hart Former Celtic goalkeeper on TNT Sports Maeda can claim a dummy, but that was a shot! Celtic 2-1 RB Leipzig Well, that was lively. A Nicolas Kuhn double sends Celtic into the interval ahead. Nicolas Kuhn He's done it again! Celtic have turned it around just before the break as Nicolas Kuhn smashes in from close range. A sliding Greg Taylor pulled the ball across goal before Daizen Maeda's attempted effort helped it on. Celtic Park has erupted. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig Here come the hosts again as Kyogo gets in off the shoulder and has a goal-bound effort from close range blocked behind for a corner, which comes to nothing in the end. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig Lovely stuff from Celtic again as Reo Hatate zings one into Alistair Johnston. The right-back gets a shot away at the edge of the box, it's tame and easy enough for the keeper. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig That Celtic leveller was their first shot on target - and their first since the opening 45 seconds when Arne Engels had an effort blocked. Talk about making your moments count. .. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig Wee Kyogo gets up so high to power away a RB Leipzig corner. The visitors keep aiming for that near-post area. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig Jane Lewis BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park Nicholas Khun would have enjoyed that one given his early links to RB Leipzig. What a hit from the German. That's exactly what Celtic needed. Quite the game on our hands here! Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig Joe Hart Former Celtic goalkeeper on TNT Sports Nicolas Kuhn is gliding around Celtic Park tonight. It's such good football from Celtic. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig Oh my goodness, that is outrageous from Nicolas Kuhn! A stunning outside-of-the-boot pass from just over halfway sets Daizen Maeda free. He's got to hit the target but blasts over. That pass deserved a goal. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzing Pat Nevin Former Scotland winger on BBC Sportsound The cheek of the goalkeeper to even dive for that. He didn't get within three feet of it. Celtic 1-1 RB Leipzig James Mc Fadden Former Scotland forward on BBC Sportsound What a stunning goal it is. The individual brilliance of Nicolas Kuhn to come in and clip it to the back post. The touch from Arne Engels to set him free, outside of the boot, not even looking. It's a little chip to the back post, no power on it at all. I still can't believe how nonchalant it was. Nicolas Kuhn scored twice in the first half to turn the game around The outstanding Nicolas Kuhn inspired Celtic as they came from behind against Germany's RB Leipzig to earn an exhilarating third Champions League victory in a row at an exuberant Celtic Park. Following their six-goal League Cup thrashing of Aberdeen on Saturday, and a hard-fought point away to Atalanta in the previous matchday, hopes were high for this game despite Leizpig's status as top seeds. Celtic lived up to expectations with a blistering start, but Leipzig – who are still searching for their first point in the competition – punctured their positivity with Christoph Baumgartner’s neat nod from a corner. Celtic had lost in 27 of the 28 previous Champions League games in which they had gone behind, but they picked themselves up here. Continuing his exceptional start to the season – 17 goal contributions in 15 games before this – Kuhn cut in from the right and curled an audacious strike in off a post. The stadium was still bouncing when German winger Kuhn stroked in from just outside the six-yard box after Daizen Maeda’s fresh air swipe allowed Greg Taylor's cut back to reach him just before the break. Brendan Rodgers’ side maintained their high levels after the break and were rewarded when the brilliant Reo Hatate lashed in a third and ensured Celtic's second victory of this campaign. More to follow. Celtic slip into their 'A-game' as Aberdeen get reality check 'You're not a Celtic supporter' - Rodgers on team selection leaks Rampant Celtic put six past Aberdeen to reach final Last Updated 5th November 2024 at 22: 00 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Brendan Rodgers Formation: 4 - 3 - 3 Manager: Marco Rose Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 Manager: Brendan Rodgers Formation: 4 - 3 - 3 Manager: Marco Rose Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 UEFA Champions League All competitions All competitions All competitions Celtic and RB Leipzig have met four times previously in major European competition, with the German side triumphing three times; Celtic won the other game 2-1 in November 2018 in the UEFA Europa League. RB Leipzig have lost two of their three away European matches in Scotland but the other game was a victory at Celtic Park in October 2022 in the UEFA Champions League. Celtic have picked up four points in three games in the UEFA Champions League this season (W1 D1 L1), already equalling their total from 2023-24 (W1 D1 L4). They last won more in the 2012-13 campaign (10). RB Leipzig have lost all three of their UEFA Champions League matches this season. Only two German teams have lost their first four games in a Champions League season: Hamburger in 2006-07 and Stuttgart in 2007-08. Celtic kept a clean sheet in their last UEFA Champions League game, drawing 0-0 with Atalanta. They haven’t kept consecutive clean sheets in the same campaign in the 2006-07 season against FC København and Benfica. Only two teams have applied more high pressures to opponents than RB Leipzig (1, 167) in the UEFA Champions League this season. Eight different Leipzig players have applied 100+ high pressures (Sesko, Openda, Simons, Baumgartner, Haidara, Nusa, Vermeeren, Henrichs), two more than any other club. After a run of 12 home games without a win at Celtic Park in the UEFA Champions League between 2013 and 2023 (D3 L9), Celtic have won their last two home games. They last had three wins in a row back in November 2007 under manager Gordon Strachan. All three of RB Leipzig’s goals in the UEFA Champions League this season have been scored by Benjamin Sesko from 10 shots; all other players have had 34 shots without finding the net. Across MD2 and MD3 of this season’s UEFA Champions League, only three goalkeepers made more saves than Celtic’s Kasper Schmeichel (12). This game will be played on his 38th birthday, which would make him the joint oldest player to appear on his birthday, alongside David Seaman in September 2001 for Arsenal. Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi has scored three goals in his last four home UEFA Champions League appearances. The only player to score more times at Celtic Park for the Bhoys is Chris Sutton (5 in 8 games). © 2024 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.