Georgios Samaras 25th minute goal gave Celtic the half time lead over Hapoel Tel Aviv in the opening match of the Europa League.
Gary Caldwell’s diagonal pass found Samaras timing his run to perfection and without a linesman’s flag inside the Greek striker took the ball in his stride before shooting across keeper Enyeama into the net.
The game was played at an incredibly slow pace which seemed to make it difficult for the Celtic players to adapt to.
The heat had little effect on the Celtic players although the temperature did rise in the closing minutes when Yadin was yellow carded for a crude fol on Aiden McGeady who was booked for retaliating.
In the other group match Rapid Vienna are two goals up on SV Hamburg at the interval, full details of all the matches can be found on the Uefa website
Update
After that it all went wrong, badly badly wrong with Hapoel scoring two goals in the last 15 minutes to win the match.
