Celtic’s Champions League tie with Shakhtar seems certain to go ahead
Soccer Football - Champions League Group Stage draw - Halic Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey - August 25, 2022 Yaya Toure draws Celtic REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Wednesday’s Champions League match against Shakhtar Donetsk looks like going ahead as planned with an allocation of tickets released for the match today.
At mid-day the SPFL announced the postponement of the full weekend card but UEFA appear to be operating a business as usual policy.
Shakhtar have had to switch their home matches to Warsaw but after winning 4-1 away to RB Leipzig they will be confident of building on that for Celtic’s match.
??A limited number of tickets for the away match v Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday 14th September are now on sale to eligible STH.
— celticfctickets (@CelticFCTickets) September 9, 2022
Millions of Ukrainians have fled the war with Russia to live in neighbouring Poland with Shakhtar certain of strong support inside the stadium.
After the promise shown against Real Madrid in the opening group match Celtic need to take at least a point from the Shakhtar match if they are to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stage of the Champions League.