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Celtic and Rapid Vienna meet for the first time since their controversial 1984 Cup Winners Cup tie on Thursday night in a Group C game at Parkhead. You can watch Celtic vs Rapid Vienna live and other Europa League games by signing up with Live Sport Network today.

The Bhoys were beaten 2-1 in Tel Aviv by Hapoel in their group opener. Celtic lead 1-0 at the interval thanks to Giorgios Samaras’ 25^th minute goal, but late strikes from Nemanja Vucicevic and Maaran Lala gave the home side a shock 2-1 win.

Patrick McCourt and Shaun Maloney were on target for Celtic when they beat St.Mirren 2-0 in the Scottish Premier League on Saturday. Tony Mowbray’s men are currently four points ahead of arch rivals Rangers, whom they will face in the league this weekend. Influential winger Aiden McGeady is making a fast recovery from his ankle injury, and may be able to make his return in the game against Rapid.

Rapid Vienna shocked German giants HSV on Matchday 1 at home. The Austrian outfit ran out 3-0 winners thanks to goals from Steffen Hoffmann, Nikica Jelavic and Christopher Drazan.

Rapid go into this game having beaten Wiener Neustadt in the Austrian Bundesliga on Saturday. Albanian striker Hamdi Salihi scored on either side of a Ragnvald Soma effort at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium as Rapid picked up their fourth league win.

Rapid will be given a hostile reception at Parkhead given what happened there twenty five years ago. Referee Bruno Paixao is known to people in his native Portugal as a cardhappy ref, which further adds to the tension already present. Will Rapid add Celtic to Aston Villa and Hamburg in their list of their high profile European scalps? Watch Celtic vs Rapid Vienna live to find out.