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Stuttgart 0-1 Celtic (4-2 agg): Match stats

  • Celtic's Callum McGregor made his 68th major European start for the club – just one behind the club record set by their 1967 European Cup winning captain Billy McNeill (69).
  • Celtic's opening goal after 28 seconds was the earliest ever conceded by Stuttgart in a major European game.
  • Celtic attacker Luke McCowan is the first Scotsman to score in the first minute of a major European game since Brian McClair for Manchester United against Montpellier in March 1991 in the Cup Winners' Cup.
  • Luke McCowan's goal on 28 seconds was Celtic earliest on record (since 2004-05 when Opta have exact times) and the club's eighth in the first minute of a major European game.
  • Celtic have scored in the opening minute of eight major European matches, the most of any side in history.
  • Stuttgart lost on home soil in all competitions for the first time in eight games (W5 D2), since a 5-0 defeat at the hands of Bayern Munich on 6 December.
  • This is just the eighth game in major European competition history to see the winner in a 1-0 win scored in the first minute, with Celtic also the first side ever to score such a goal via a 1-0 European Cup semi-final win in April 1970 against Leeds.

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