Spartak miss out on Champions' League
Published 30 August, 2007, 06:10
There will be no Champions' League football for Spartak Moscow. The Premier League leaders gave it everything they had against Scottish champions, Celtic, but lost 4-3 on penalties.
The match had just about everything.
Spartak's Roman Pavluchenko missed a penalty in the first half, and then Celtic took the lead to go two-one up on aggregate, with Scott Mcdonald scoring his first goal for the club.
But Pavluchenko made amends with an equaliser just before half-time to make it 2-2 on aggregate.
Both teams missed chances to win in extra-time.
Finally it went to spot-kicks. Maksim Kalinchenko missed the crucial kick in the shoot-out as Celtic’s keeper Artur Boruc saved twice.
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