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Celtic opened the scoring in 3 minutes, Larsson ran on to Thompson's through-ball before firing low through the legs of the exposed goalkeeper Tomas Postulka.
Teplice fell further behind in the 12th minute. Vladimir Leitner failed to find Postulka with his back-header and Sutton nipped in to round the goalkeeper and score. Thompson should have killed the tie off in the 17th minute after Larsson stepped over Pearson's cross after a clever move, but the midfielder fired over from eight yards. Pearson had two great chances to strengthen Celtic's position when he beat the offside trap from Jackie McNamara's pass. But Postulka saved his first effort and Tomas Hunal cleared his follow-up effort off the line.
Teplice had been on the back-foot for much of the first-half but tightened up after the break. Karel Rada wasted a rare opportunity to reduce the deficit after 81 minutes following a corner. The Teplice defender fired wildly over after a nice turn 10 yards from the Celtic goal.
Stan Varga came close with two headers for Celtic before Larsson finally pounced on a Stilian Petrov corner.

Trivia

Teplice had lost five players through transfer since beating Feyenoord and Kaiserslautern in the previous rounds.

Teams

Celtic:-
Douglas, Agathe, Balde, Varga, McNamara (Valgaeren 87), Petrov, Lambert, Pearson (Sylla 72), Thompson, Larsson, Sutton.

Subs Not Used:- Marshall, Hartson, Wallace, Beattie, Kennedy.

Goals:- Larsson 2, Sutton 12, Larsson 90.

Booked:- Thompson.




FK Teplice:-
Postulka, Dolezal, Rada, Hunal, Leitner, Ryska, Verbir, Skala, Tesarik, Kowalik (Rilke 45), Masek.

Subs Not Used:- Patrik Kolar, Sigmund, Kuchar, Horvath.

Booked:- Skala, Rilke, Tesarik.

Attendance:- 48,947.

Referee:- Konrad Plautz (Austria).

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