Poor old Danylo Silkan. He won't want to, but the Shakhtar Donetsk forward will inevitably see reruns of his incredible miss against Celtic for the years to come as he shoots to the top of every list of sitters compiled, to be shown on bloopers shows and YouTube ‘highlight’ reels after somehow managing not to score, meaning his team left Glasgow with a 1-1 draw rather than the likely 2-1 win he would have put them on course for.
Mykhaylo Mudryk did all the hard work for him. Shakhtar’s Ukrainian flying machine showed his incredible pace to beat Cameron Carter-Vickers to the ball in the left hand side as the visitors broke ominously.
The American is no slouch, but just couldn’t keep up as Mudryk put on the afterburners. His teammates anticipated this and were ready in the middle as the number 10 unselfishly squared for what should have seen an easy tap-in.What came next is the stuff of strikers nightmares.
Silkan had an open goal in the truest sense of the phrase. Joe Hart had accepted the inevitable. He had space and crucially, he had time.
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