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Good evening all, welcome to LIVE text commentary of this Champions League clash between Celtic and Manchester City at Celtic Park. Full team news in just a moment...

Champions League / Group Stage
Celtic Park / 28.09.2016
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Ben Snowball

Updated 28/09/2016 at 20:35 GMT


5'
Incredible start to this game, and City are all over the place at the back. Celtic look like scoring every time they go forward.
3'
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GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Manchester City - Dembele scores for Celtic! A deep free-kick by Sinclair is knocked back into the box by Forrest and Dembele gets the final touch. What a start!
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2'
Celtic seeing more of the ball in the opening minute. Good, positive start by the home side.
1st Half
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Kick-off. We're off on a wet and windy night in Glasgow.
19.40
The players are out at Celtic Park and it's a cracking atmosphere as ever. We're less than five minutes away from kick off...
19.35
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers on why he picked Craig Gordon ahead of Dutchman Dorus de Vries."Dorus obviously came off injured at the weekend, maybe he could've played. You don't need to take the risk. Craig's an outstanding goalkeeper."
19.30
19.25
Guardiola added: "It is not easy. I saw the game against Rangers here, how intensive it was. It was completely different to the way they played in Barcelona, which was more passive. Against Rangers it was so aggressive, high pressing, that is the game we are going to expect from them."
19.20
Guardiola is expecting a reaction from Celtic after their 7-0 pounding in Barcelona two weeks ago: "Many, many teams suffer the same as what happened in Barcelona," he said. "You cannot imagine how many goals Barcelona can score in five minutes but for 92/93/94 minutes they will be focused so it will be completely different."
19.15
Heavy rain saw Manchester City's opening Champions League game delayed by 24 hours, and the Premier League side have brought more wet weather with them - more heavy rain in Glasgow tonight.
19.10
Stat attack.
19.05
For City, there are three changes from Saturday's win at Swansea, Pablo Zabaleta, Gael Clichy and Nolito are in, with Aleksandar Kolarov switching to a central defensive role and John Stones, somewhat surprisingly, dropping to the bench.
19.00
As well as bringing in goalkeeper Craig Gordon, Celtic restore Kolo Toure to the heart of defence. Leigh Griffiths stays on the bench after making a scoring return from injury last weekend.
18.55
And the City team.
18.50
The Celtic team tonight: