Mowbray draws positives

Hoops boss refusing to be downbeat despite elimination

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Mowbray draws positives

Mowbray: Takes the positives

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Celtic boss Tony Mowbray refused to be downbeat despite watching his side's 2-0 defeat of Hapoel Tel Aviv in Glasgow fail to save their Europa League campaign.

Celtic were full value for what was an impressive victory at Celtic Park but it proved to be in vain as Hamburg beat Rapid Vienna in the group's other game.

Mowbray was pleased with his side's performance but admitted Celtic's hopes of progress had suffered because of their failure to take their chances in their previous group games.

He said: "I think it was a solid and disciplined European performance. We took our opportunities whereas in the first four games we've probably had as many chances and not taken them.

"It's a very fine margin in football and you take your chances and you miss some. They've all been tight games and we've been a little bit unfortunate that we're out.

"But I think we can take encouragement from tonight. We won pretty comfortably in the end and we've got to take what we've learned this year into hopefully a Champions League campaign next year."

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