But Celtic remained the more dangerous, with Langfield saving from Lee Naylor and Jiri Jarosik squandering a good chance from 10 yards.

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Until that point, the Blues had enjoyed the territorial advantage and Jiri Jarosik tested Jens Lehmann with a right-foot shot that the German keeper tipped wide.

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Dunfermline's Stevie Crawford could not make Jiri Jarosik pay for a poor cross-field pass after quarter of an hour when his shot sailed over the bar.

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Celtic continued to press after the break, but chances were hard to come by and Jarosik was first to threaten with a glancing header just over the bar.

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Most of Birmingham's threat came on the left through Jiri Jarosik, but he could not find a way past Anton Ferdinand and Danny Gabbidon and was restricted to unconvincing long-range efforts.

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However, a long ball out of defence from Gary Caldwell caused havoc in the Shakhtar defence and, when Razvan Rat and Dmytro Chygrynsky collided, Jarosik pounced to blast the ball into far corner.

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Paul Hartley and Steven Pressley have hardly set the green and white heather on fire since being replanted at Parkhead from Hearts and Strachan has confounded many by his persistence with the anonymous Jiri Jarosik.

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