Ronnie Deila said he was proud of his side and praised their work rate after they held on for a draw following the dismissal of Emilio Izaguirre for a second booking. A late goal from the substitute Lasse Schöne gave Ajax a point but they were unable to find a winner in an absorbing encounter.
The right-back Mikael Lustig headed Celtic into an interval lead in the 42nd minute after the Danish midfielder Viktor Fischer had cancelled out the midfielder Nir Bitton’s eighth-minute opener.
Celtic looked assured after the break but when Izaguirre was dismissed in the 74th minute by the referee, Luca Banti, for picking up his second yellow card of the night with a foul on Anwar El Ghazi, the home side came storming back with Schöne scoring a free-kick in the 84th minute and Ronny Deila’s side hanging on for a point.
“I’m very proud,” Deila told BT Sport. “We have had a tough period. We have many games left but this is a good start. We showed very good work and attitude, we were very organised and I think we were unlucky to get the red card. Emilio played well to negate the situation. In the first half he didn’t do anything wrong but in the second half [Anwar El Ghazi] gets more inside and we get into trouble.”
Deila, under pressure after the defeat at Aberdeen at the weekend, and having exited the Champions League at the play-off stage, suffered a blow with the loss of Charlie Mulgrew to a thigh injury; Stuart Armstrong and Scott Allan were also out injured.
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