Celtic are 2-1 up at half-time against RB Leipzig at Celtic Park, with Nicolas Kuhn at the double.
Christoph Baumgartner opening the scoring for Leipzig.
However, Nicolas Kuhn hit back for the Hoops.
Celtic edged the first 15 minutes but weren’t able to make the most of a dominant spell.
Baumgartner would get the Leipzig goal from a corner after a misplaced Cameron Carter-Vickers clearance fell to him in the 23rd minute, with Arne Engels unable to stop the Leipzig midfielder from heading past Kasper Schmeichel.
Nicolas Kuhn would make his mark 12 minutes later, when Arne Engels played the ball round the corner to the German.
He had everything to do but, cutting onto his stronger left foot, Kuhn scored a beautiful goal into the corner, leaving experienced goalkeeper Peter Gulácsi no chance.
Nicolas Kühn scores an absolute beauty against his former club 🔥
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Kuhn would finish the half in style, adding a second goal after a Greg Taylor cut back and evaded Daizen Maeda.
Kuhn tapped in for a second goal against his former side in first-half stoppage-time
Nicolas Kühn scores a second to turn the game around before half-time 🤯
Celtic lead RB Leipzig!
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The German has been a standout in the first half and might even look to bag a hat trick in the second half.
Kuhn has stepped up from last season. An academy graduate of RB Leipzig, he has come back to haunt his former side.
Written off after a poor end to last season, but from pre-season on, he has looked like one of the first names on the team sheet, a Celtic winger through and through.
