After being absent from the first two warm-up games this summer, Liel Abda received the first minutes of Celtic’s pre-season today (Wednesday), and found the net in a 2-4 win over Czech side Ostrava. The Israeli winger came off the bench in the 46th minute and was responsible for the Scottish champions’ last goal of the game. Celtic, who have scored 14 goals so far in three friendlies, will face English side Blackburn on Saturday when in 18 days they will open the Scottish League season in a game against Aberdeen.
In a preparatory match held today by Budapest Honved in which they finished 2-2 against Arsenal Tibet, Maxim Flakushchenko opened the scoring and was substituted in the half – not before he cooked for Bobcar Traore the goal that temporarily equalized 1-1 in the 28th minute.