Zagreb: West Ham began their European league campaign with a 2-0 victory at Dinamo Zagreb in Group H while Celtic waste the superiority of two goals in a 4-3 defeat by Real Betis in Group G in the opening round of the game on Thursday.
Red Star Belgrade, 1991 European Cup winner, cleaned a 2-1 victory over Portuguese Braga rivals while Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad got a 1-1 draw on the Danish side of Midtjylland in Group F.
Michail Antonio gave West Ham in the capital Croatia when he rounded Livakovic Dominic goalkeeper And rolled the ball into a blank net after intercepting bad feedback by Kevin Theophile-Catherine.
Rice declan sealed the victory with a good individual effort at 50 when he ran to clean the marker on the left of the center line and drill the ball home through Livakovic’s feet from eight meters.
The purpose of the termination of Paul Onuachu gave Belgium Genk a 1-0 victory in Vienna Rapid in another Group H match.
The goal bundled by Albian Ajeti and the Juranovic Josip penalty gave Celtic a 2-0 advantage in the calf in the opening of 27 minutes but their joy was short-lived when the home team was at level eight minutes later through Juan Miranda and Juanmi.
Betis shook visitors with two other Quickfire goals shortly after the break, Nosing in front through Borja Iglesias in the 50th minute before Juanmi captured two minutes after a neat movement.
Anthony Ralston set the finish tense when he pulled one back for Celtic in the 87th minute but the calf continued to come out above in a seven goal thriller.
In other Group G games, Bayer Leverkusen fought back to 2-1 home win against Ferencvaros as Exequiel Palacios and Florian Wirtz canceled the initial Ryan Mmaee opening for the Hungarian team.
Back Milan Rodic fired a red star ahead in the 75th minute and Braga hit back through Wenderson per minute only for Aleksandar Kawai to please home fans who were passionate about the 85th punishment with a penalty.
In Group E, Thomas Strakosha’s goal in the middle of the second half helped Galatasray to a 1-0 home victory over Lazio while 10-Man Lokomotiv Moscow got the final draw from Olympique Marseille.
After having Tiknizyan Layir was sent early in the second half, Lokomotiv was left behind at Cengiz under the penalty before Faustino Anjorin saved a point for the Russian side with the 89th goal.