CELTIC ended their Tour de France with a lesson from champions PSG.

Edouard and Elyounoussi started up front. Immediately after that effort, another cross made it’s way into the PSG box. "I'm really pleased with a lot of aspects of the game. Unphased, Celtic went on the attack within seconds.

"The players have only really had one full game going into this one, so I think they'll benefit from it," Lennon, who exchanged a few angry words with Neymar after the Brazilian won a free-kick, told Celtic TV. A good win and a good send off for club captain Thiago Silva who played his last game in front of his home crowd. In response, PSG countered and a cross from Neymar was inches from the head of Mbappe.20 minutes into the half, Jeremie Frimpong beat his man superbly and sent a dangerous low cross along the face of goal, unfortunately nobody was able to get on the end of it. This time Elyounoussi nodded down to Edouard, who was foiled at the last moment.The half time whistle blew with the scoreline PSG 2-0 Celtic. Ntcham has retained the ball well, shown excellent skill and sprayed a couple of sublime passes. Score After Full Time - 4-0 ; 90+1' - 10th Corner - PSG ; 0:0 Goals 70:00 - 79:59 ; 1:1 Corners 70:00 - 79:59 ; 78' - 9th Corner - Celtic The keeper should have kept it out but it wasn’t Bain’s finest moment as the effort found its way into the back of the net to put Celtic 3-0 down.Buoyed by the goal, the home side began to dominate with two last ditch interceptions preventing them from going further ahead.
"About 60 Celtic supporters were in attendance, with 5,000 permitted inside the 48,000-capacity Parc des Princes in Paris.The closest they came to watching their side score was through a Christopher Jullien header which thumped against the post late in the first half, while James Forrest shot narrowly wide in the final stages.Warming up for Friday's French Cup final against Saint-Etienne and their Champions League quarter-final against Atalanta in August, PSG changed their entire team at the break.Having suffered a 7-1 Champions League thrashing on their last visit to the stadium, Celtic fielded a strong starting XI but had no answer to the pace and panache of the expensively assembled Ligue 1 champions.Last week, Celtic took part in the Veolia Trophy, along with Rangers, drawing 1-1 with Nice and losing 2-1 to Lyon. Having started poorly, Celtic had been on top between 10 and 20 minutes. At wing backs were Frimpong and Taylor, whilst McGregor (captain), Ntcham and Christie started in midfield. "Celtic will now turn their focus to the defence of the Premiership title and the opening match at home to Hamilton Academical on 2 August.BBC Scotland's Chick Young remembers Tam Forsyth, the former Motherwell, Rangers and Scotland defender who has died at 71.Laura Muir breaks Kelly Holmes' 21-year British record over 1,000m in MonacoWatch Kyren Wilson and Anthony McGill play out one of the most extraordinary deciding frames in Crucible history as the Englishman reaches the World Championship final with a 17-16 win.John Higgins recalls the emotional moment he won his fourth World Championship in 2011.Sportscene will show all of the day's Scottish Premiership goals every Saturday evening this season.Olympic golds, football firsts, and the end of the longest waits - but what did you vote for as Scotland's greatest sporting moment?Everything you need to know about following football with BBC Sport ScotlandShoaib Akhtar on reaching 100mph, battles with Flintoff and moreHow to get involved in just about any sport or activity Then, last year, I published my second book (Take Me To Your Paradise: A History Of Celtic-Related Incidents & Events), which is sold in Waterstones and official Celtic FC stores.The Celtic Star is the independent Celtic Supporters site.

If he keeps this up then Lennon will have to think about starting him more frequently.PSG made a number of changes ahead of the second half, but they still had some extraordinary talent on the pitch.

We're 'obsessed with Celtic' - just like you! The goal would have come as an annoyance to Neil Lennon as his team had been competing well against much superior opposition.Ten minutes after Neymar’s strike, Mbappe had a good opportunity, which Bain saved well. "That's as stiff an examination as you're going to get," Lennon said. Manager Neil Lennon says he was pleased with his Celtic's performance despite ending their pre-season tour of France with a 4-0 defeat by Paris St-Germain.Kylian Mbappe scored after just 53 seconds and Neymar, Ander Herrera and Pablo Sarabia completed a comfortable win for the Ligue 1 champions.It means Scottish Premiership side Celtic end their trip to France without a win in three matches.
However, the match finished PSG 4-0 Celtic. In response, Lennon changed things up by taking swapping Bitton with James Forrest and adopting a 4-5-1 formation, with Elyounoussi moving out to the left hand side of midfield. Celtic end their French pre-season preparations with the toughest test of all against Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain.Neil Lennon’s side drew with Nice in their opening match of the Veolia Tournament, before a second string XI was beaten by Lyon. Forrest nearly made an immediate impact when Edouard fed him on the wing and the Scotsman curled a low first time cross into the box, which almost enabled Christie to convert.The change was in vein as Veratti collected the ball in space and chipped a delightful cross into Sarabia, who let the ball drop over his shoulder before thundering a volley into the top corner to make the score 4-0.Patryk Klimala soon replaced Edouard, before the welcome return of Tom Rogic in the 72nd minute as the Australian replaced Ntcham. On 15 minutes, Ryan Christie chipped an inventive corner to Ntcham at the edge of the box, whose powerful volley was deflected over the bar by a home side defender.There was action at either end in the subsequent two minutes. The ball was cut back from the right hand side and Neymar’s volley ironically deflected off Bitton to fortuitously wrong foot Bain and find its way into the back of the net after 25 minutes. Everything you need to know about the Friendly match between PSG and Celtic (21 July 2020): Summary, Stats, Lineups and Scores - Besoccer Don't miss the most important football matches while navigating as usual through the pages of your choice. Still living on the south coast, I have a season ticket at Paradise and also travel to European away matches when possible.