It was a sore one at the time. But after a 10-hour flight left to stew on it, it was a million times worse. ‌

Benjamin Nygren reckons Tuesday night’s Champions League exit in Kazakhstan felt like rock bottom. ‌

It wasn’t just a bad night for Celtic – it was the worst. Plenty of Hoops fans will feel exactly the same. The 300 or so diehards who made the 7000-mile trek returned home with their faces tripping them. ‌

But it wasn’t exactly a breeze coming back for the squad either. And now they need to shake off the sense of misery before Sunday – when they head to Ibrox to face a Rangers side marooned even deeper in the pit of despair.

Nygren didn’t even attempt to play down Celtic’s own mortifying Euro experience.

The shellshocked Swede has made an impressive start at Celtic b

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