Celtic throw away four-goal aggregate lead to crash out of Champions League against Lask
Headline as filed by The Guardian Sport. PageNews does not write or rewrite headlines.
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2 publishers have filed 2 reports that PageNews has grouped as one story.
The earliest report detected came from The Guardian Sport at 21:40 UTC on 25 August 2026, and the most recent from The Independent Sport 2 minutes later.
Champions League is named in all 2 reports.
The coverage is filed under Sports. Each publisher's own headline, summary and link is below.
Order of coverage
- first The Guardian Sport — earliest coverage indexed by PageNews
- +2m The Independent Sport — latest publisher to join
Names shared across publishers
Details appearing in more than one publisher
Wording appearing in 2 or more publishers’ own summaries, with the number that used each. It records that they used the same words, not that anything is confirmed.
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Coverage from 2 publishers
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The Guardian Sport
Celtic throw away four-goal aggregate lead to crash out of Champions League against Lask
Celtic have been eliminated from Champions League qualifying after collapsing spectacularly against LASK of Austria.Callum McGregor put Martin O’Neill’s side ahead on 22 minutes at Raiffeisen Arena, c
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The Independent Sport
Celtic let four-goal lead slip to crash out of Champions League after stunning collapse
LASK 5-1 Celtic a.e.t (5-4 agg.): Celtic missed out on a place in the league phase after a remarkable result in Austria
Read on The Independent Sport →
How the coverage developed
- first The Guardian Sport coverage detected Celtic throw away four-goal aggregate lead to crash out of Champions League against Lask
- +2m The Independent Sport coverage detected Celtic let four-goal lead slip to crash out of Champions League after stunning collapse
Coverage analysis
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What this coverage raises
- Confrontation 1 of 2 reports
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What each report emphasised
- The Independent Sport more consequence focus than the other reports here
Where the reports diverged most
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