Celtic vs Bayern Munich
Final score
Celtic and Bayern Munich drew 0-0 on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at Celtic Park.
Play by play
- 90'
Celtic's 100% home record in the Champions League is lost to a nil-nil draw. The enormity of the occassion was matched by effort but ultimately lacked the spark needed to break down a very tough Bayern backline. The Germans clearly came with a plan of first making sure they didn't lose and then looking to score on the break and they achieved their primary objective. A draw was a fair result in a match that contained too many errors to have been a classic but was engaging for the full 93 minutes
- 90'
The final whistle is sounded and the points are shared
- 90'
Celtic have a throw just inside the Bayern half and this will surely be the start of their final attack of the match
- 90'
Kahn is booked for time wasting as the game enters its final 60 seconds
- 90'
A long punt from Thompson sees Kahn worried enough to palm the ball over the bar even though it would not have caused a problem if left. Nothing comes from the corner
- 90'
Stoppage time of three minutes in announced as the Glasgow crowd collectively hold their breath
- 89'
Fouls are becoming the norm as this time Miller is fouled as he tries to bring the ball out of defence
- 87'
Jeremies and Larsson tangle and tensions spill over for a moment until play resumes with a Bayern free-kick in their own half
- 85'
John Hartson, who has worked like a horse for the entire match, is taken off and replaced withMomo Sylla to freshen up the side for the final few minutes
- 84'
Celtic's hard work is nearly undone when Hedman comes to clear and the ball cannons of one of his own defenders and looks, though only for a moment, as if it is goalbound. Hedman escapes and is able to tidy up the mess
- 82'
Bayern win a free-kick deep in the Celtic half down the left hand channel that is whipped in by Hargreaves but with too much venom and it goes out for a goal-kick
- 80'
The tension in the air is palpable as both sides are looking to give nothing away in the dying minutes
- 79'
Kahn has to be at his most dominating as Hartson goes up for a cross he would fancy but the German keeper powers a strong punch away
- 77'
The crowd are unusually quiet as Bayern start to get a bit more ball and the fans begin to get anxious as to where a goal may come from for Celtic
- 75'
After a few minute spell where Celtic are starting to look short of an idea or two, Thompson puts a ball aimed for Hartson to the back post. The angle is right but he put just too much on it and the ball runs away from the striker.
- 74'
Bayern's patience looks to have produced a real chance as Ballack has time to line up a shot from outside the area but drags it well wide in the end
- 72'
Bayern replace striker Santa Cruz, in a like-for-like swap, with Claudio Pizarro.
- 71'
Celtic again try to force the issue and good work down the left from Thompson, Larsson and Miller comes to nothing as the Bayern backline does its job admirably
- 69'
Bayern start to pass the ball around and play for the first time in a while in their opponents half. Kovac is felled, around 35 yards out but still, Hargreaves has a shot from the resulting free-kick. It never even looks like troubling Hedman in the Celtic goal.
- 68'
Sutton continues to be work rate and industry personified at both ends of the field for Celtic whilst Hartsons strength ahead of the attack promises to produce a chance sooner rather than later
- 65'
The corner finds Sutton in some space but as he tries to angle a cute header into the net he gets his angles marginally wrong and the ball goes wide
- 63'
A Bayern attack breaks down and Celtic come forward with first, Larsson and later in the same move with Hartson who needs two defenders in close attention to stop him getting a shot away but he does win a corner.
- 62'
Agathe can't carry on and Martin O'Niell makes his first change. On comes Lee Miller to a massive reception from the home crowd
- 60'
A break from Bayern sees them with Makaay in space. Agathe races back to cover the danger but hurts himself and can only clear to Salihamidzic. Thompson fouls him, though he does make a meal of it, and earns a caution that means he will miss Celtic's final group game
- 58'
Sutton harried and chased down Jeremies with the ball until he gave it back to his keeper. Directly from that pressure Celtic won back the ball and a third Bayern man is booked - Lizarzu - for a foul on Petrov

