Celtic bow out of Europa League despite victory over Stuttgart.

By Andrew Petrie, BBC Sport Scotland.

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Celtic pulled off a shock but impressive victory against Stuttgart for their first win on German soil, but it was not enough to avoid dropping out of the Europa League knockout play-offs.

Luke McCowan scored after just 28 seconds to give the much-changed visitors a glimmer of hope following last week’s 4-1 defeat.

The hosts did have the ball in the net twice, but both goals were ruled out for offside. The first was scored by Chris Fuhrich, the second by Deniz Undav.

Despite Stuttgart’s second-half siege, Celtic were able to hold on for a morale-boosting win going into a pivotal Old Firm double header.

There were positives to take, though. It was Celtic’s first win in Germany in 17 attempts, while Martin O’Neill was also able to rest plenty of key players ahead of the Old Firm at Ibrox on Sunday.

The clean sheet, kept by back-up goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo with Kasper Schmeichel rested, will offer confidence while up front, the attacking trio of Daizen Maeda, Junior Adamu and McCowan looked threatening.

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