BREAKING NEWS;Former Rangers striker Abdallah Sima signs a life contract with Celtic
Former Rangers striker Abdallah Sima continued his excellent form in the Champions League by netting twice in a stunning 4-0 win for Brest away at Salzburg.
The French side, who finished third in Ligue 1 last season, are one of the unfancied teams in the revamped tournament, but they provisionally moved top of the standings after an astonishing victory in Austria.
Sima, who was on loan at Rangers last season from Brighton and was successful at Ibrox, has been farmed out yet again by the Seagulls, this time to the Breton club. And the Senegalese is continuing to impress for his new club, grabbing a double in this victory.
Sima showed good composure to latch on to a Ludovic Ajorque pass on 24 minutes to open the scoring and he grabbed his team’s third goal on 71 minutes, pouncing on a rebound. Either side of his strike, Mahdi Camara and Mathias Pereira Lage found the net.
Brest also face Leverkusen, Sparta Prague, Barcelona, PSV, Shakhtar and Real Madrid in the expanded league phase of Europe’s premier tournament.
Rightly praised for their excellent, previously unblemished start to the season – which included a 5-1 win over Slovan Bratislava on Champions League opening night – Scotland’s top dogs were reduced to pitiful poodles by last season’s runners-up. Celtic were lucky to escape the Signal Iduna Park having only shipped seven goals.
This landslide defeat – not quite at the scale of their worst European loss, 7-0 by PSG – will surely quieten the chatter of Celtic potentially finishing in the top eight of this newly-revamped league phase. Qualifying for the play-offs will be a roaring success for a team that simply cannot cope with the demands of playing away from home in the Champions League.
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