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Celtic end pre-season with shootout win over Al-Ahli
Celtic finished their pre-season preparations with a 5-3 win on penalties after a 1-1 draw with Asian Champions League winners Al-Ahli in the Como Cup third/fourth Scottish champions had been humbled 5-1 in their semi-final by Ajax, while the side who finished fifth in Saudi Arabia's Pro League lost 3-1 to the pre-season tournament's Italian put Celtic's second-half collapse against the Dutch down to fatigue of pre-season training, manager Brendan Rodgers named a completely fresh starting took the lead after 23 minutes through former Porto and Braga winger Galeno's acrobatic hitch-kick from 12 levelled when Luke McCowan's corner to the back post was volleyed back into the six-yard box by James Forrest and centre-half Auston Trusty prodded striker signing Shin Yamada thought he had scored the winner after making his first Celtic appearance as a substitute but was ruled came close to a winner three minutes from time, but his strike came off a post and the match went into a shoot-out in which the Glasgow side prevailed.
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'All positive' despite Gordon sitting out 'special day'
Craig Gordon said it is a "special day" he will "always remember" despite being unable to play more than a minute of his testimonial as his Heart of Midlothian side beat Sunderland 42-year-old Scotland goalkeeper is recovering from injury and stressed that the game against the club he left Hearts to join in 2007 does not mark the end of his career."That's the reason I couldn't play more today," Gordon told Hearts TV. "The medical team just wouldn't allow it and I understand why. It was just too dangerous - too big a risk."To play the one minute, I managed to complete my one pass to the dugout as I was instructed to and walk off with a clean sheet, it's all positive."Goals from Claudio Braga, Lawrence Shankland and Alexandros Kyziridis helped Gordon's mood further."It was always going to be a special day for me and the boys made sure of it with a great performance and a great win," he said."Walking out to that reception and that amount of fans in the stadium. I've never seen that for a testimonial at Hearts before."So to be here and experience that will be something I'll always remember."Gordon joked that he could have played given how little the visitors did to trouble replacement Zander Clark. "As it turns out, I probably would have been okay to play as Zander wasn't called upon too many times," he added."You never know going into a game how much you are going to be worked and they took the safety first approach, which I can totally understand."The friendly win comes after Hearts won their Premier Sports Cup group with four four-goal victories that have fans full of optimism as they prepare to start their Premiership campaign next weekend."Three goals today - not quite the four we've been used to - but still a very good day's work against quality opposition," Gordon added."Really pleasing for us to build that confidence going into next week against Aberdeen but also for the fans to get excited and to some of the new players and see what they can bring to the team as well."
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Woad 'feeling good' as she maintains Scottish Open lead
Women's Scottish Open third-round leaderboard-17 Woad (Eng); -15 S-Y Kim (Kor), Madsen (Den); -14 H-J Kim (Kor); -12 Korda (USA); -9 Reto (SA); -8 Choi (Kor), Schmelzel (USA).Selected others: -5 Maguire (Ire); -4 Hull (Eng); -3 Hall (Eng), Harry (Wal); +1 Fuller (Eng); +2 Williams (Wal); +3 Dryburgh (Sco).Full leaderboard Lottie Woad is "feeling good" as she takes a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Women's Scottish Open as the 21-year-old looks to mark her professional debut with a second tournament former world number one amateur from Surrey maintained her cushion at the top of the leaderboard after a third-round five-under-par 67 at Dundonald who won the Irish Open, turned professional last week after missing out on £400,000 prize money having finished just a shot outside the play-off won by Grace Kim at the Evian Championship, the women's fourth major of the said "there's always nerves" but hopes her recent experiences will work to her advantage. "I am excited for the opportunity and I've got the experience from leading in Ireland and other events that I've been in," she said. "I'm just going to try and use that - I'm feeling good."A fourth birdie in her first 10 holes briefly extended Woad's advantage to three shots and, despite picking up further shots at the 14th and 17th, a bogey at the short 15th - only her second in 54 holes - left her 17 was two better than Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen and South Korean Sei Young Kim, who shot an impressive LPGA winner Hyo Joo Kim matched that to sit one back, while world number one Nelly Korda is five shots adrift on 12 under after a bogey-free last time a player won on their professional Ladies European Tour debut was Singapore's Shannon Tan at the 2024 Magical Kenya Ladies Open."There was a lot of attention kind of leading up, so this feels a bit more free now that I've got my [LPGA] card," Woad said."I don't think you can ever expect to be leading, but I knew my game was good and I was playing well the last month or so. I definitely hoped to be contending. I'm where I wanted to be."
