Celtic's goal had been living a charmed life for the last couple of minutes and they're made to pay for poor defending as Lukas Julis fires home from close range with the home defence all at sea.

Neil Lennon doesn't look a happy camper on the touchline.

A warning for Celtic as the visitors pounce on a stray Nir Bitton pass, allowing Moberg Karlsson to force Scott Bain into a great save with his legs.

Seconds later, Karlsson sees his effort cannon back off the crossbar.

No goals in the opening 20 minutes at Celtic Park but both sides are showing attacking intent.

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Celtic are pressing for the opener but Mo Elyonoussi sees his deflected effort sail off target.

It remains goalless after 15 minutes but the hosts are pushing to break the deadlock.

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Ryan Christie flicks the ball on for Jeremie Frimpong to thunder down the right before the full-back's cross is cleared for a corner.

The visitors clear their lines from the subsequent set piece but Celtic are beginning to find their rhythm.

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Fit-again Odsonne Edouard spurns a great chance to shoot as he turns back inside. allowing Sparta Prague to recover and repel the danger.

You'd imagine Edouard on top form would hit that first time to test the goalkeeper.

Celtic look more menacing in an attacking sense with Tom Rogic in midfield. And the Australian shows clever dancing feet to wheel away from two Sparta Prague players to set up an attack. It fizzles out but he looks in the mood.

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Former Scotland midfielder on BBC Sportsound

Ryan Christie whips a free-kick into the Sparta Prague box but it hits the first defender and is comfortably cleared by the visitors.

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Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound

Neil Lennon's side are on the attack from the opening minute as Ryan Christie finds Mo Elyounoussi who in turns plays it wide to Diego Laxalt.

However, the on-loan Milan defender can't find a team-mate as his outside-of-the-foot cross is cleared by Sparta Prague.

We're under way at Celtic Park.

Celtic's loss of three players - now returned from self-isolation - through Covid-19 pales into insignificance compared to Sparta's problems.

They had won seven games in a row before play was suspended in the Czech Republic because of the rise in cases in their homeland.

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Shorn of match practice, they have suffered two chastening defeats in the Europa League - 4-1 at home to Lille and 3-0 away to AC Milan.

Celtic, meanwhile, ended their own run of four games without a win by easing aside Aberdeen 2-0 in Sunday's delayed 2019-20 Scottish Cup semi-final.

Former Arsenal and Czech Republic midfielder Tomas Rosicky is back at first club Sparta as a coach.

With the visitors' squad decimated by Covid-19 and injuries, the 40-year-old was maybe close to coming out of retirement!

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While Celtic are unchanged, only four players retain their places in the Sparta starting line-up that lost 3-0 away to AC Milan last week after Vaclav Kotal's Covid-hit squad was hit by further bouts of illness and injury.

In particular, they have problems in goal, with first-choice Milan Heca and Dominik Holec not being able to travel and Florin Nita, who has two caps for Romania, starting.

However, on-loan Fiorentina centre-half David Hancko returns from injury to make his first appearance of the season, while fellow defender Dominik Plechaty overcomes a knock to make a surprise start, which means Ondrej Celutska, who played against Scotland for Czech Republic the other week, drops to the bench.

Captain and Czech Republic international Borek Dockal, often their creative force in midfield, can only make the bench as 17-year-old Adam Karabec starts along with Sweden winger David Moberg Karlsson, who had a loan spell with Kilmarnock from Sunderland back in 2014.

Principal attacking threat Lukas Julis is one of those to keep his place.

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