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Ajax
Europa League | Group Stage
Sep 17, 2015 at 6pm UK
 
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2-2

Fischer (24'), Schone (84')
FT(HT: 1-2)
Bitton (8'), Lustig (42')

Team News: Jozo Simunovic makes Celtic debut at Ajax

Jozo Simunovic makes his Celtic debut as they travel to Ajax in the first game of their Europa League campaign this evening.

Jozo Simunovic makes his Celtic debut as they travel to Ajax in the first game of their Europa League campaign this evening.

The Croatian Under-21 defender, who was signed from Dinamo Zagreb on transfer deadline day, makes his first start alongside Mikael Lustig, Dedryck Boyata and Emilio Izaguirre in the Bhoys' back four.

James Forrest and Kris Commons are selected to support Leigh Griffiths in the lone striker role, while Tyler Blackett, Tom Rogic and Gary Mackay-Steven drop to the substitutes' bench.

Meanwhile, for the home side, Viktor Fischer starts alongside Amin Younes and Anwar El Ghazi is named up top.

Lasse Schone and Arkadiusz Milik are only part of the Dutch side's substitutes.

Ajax: Cillessen; Tete, Veltman, Riedewald, Dijks; Gudelj, Klaassen, Sinkgraven; Fischer, Younes, El Ghazi
Subs: Boer, van Rhijn, van der Hoorn, Viergever, Serero, Schone, Milik

Celtic: Gordon; Lustig, Boyata, Simunovic, Izaguirre; Brown, Bitton; Forrest, Johansen, Commons; Griffiths
Subs: Bailly, Blackett, Ambrose, Ciftci, Mackay-Steven, Rogic, Janko

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