Celtic kept their Europa League knockout hopes alive with a deserved win over Hungarian champions Ferencvaros.

Kyogo Furuhashi slid home the opener from a sublime Jota pass after a frustrating first half.

Balint Vecsei’s unfortunate own goal confirmed victory after Callum McGregor’s earlier penalty miss had prolonged Celtic’s nerves in Glasgow.

Despite the unusual 15:30 BST kick-off time, partly due to Glasgow’s hosting of the United Nations’ COP26 Climate Conference, a bumper crowd turned out at Celtic Park to help their team on their mission.

The relief at Celtic Park was evident, and there was further elation three minutes later as Adam Montgomery cleverly drew a foul from Henry Wingo to earn a penalty which gave the home side the chance to all but secure a precious win.

But Celtic have rarely looked convincing for 90 minutes this season and Dibusz read McGregor’s spot kick and dived brilliantly to his left to keep the score at 1-0 and set up a nervous ending.

However, Ferencvaros’ promise of a brave, attacking display failed to materialise as Celtic kept their foot on the throttle, eventually being rewarded with 10 minutes left.

The opening defeats by Real Betis and Bayer Leverkusen meant Celtic had to win to have any chance of progressing in this competition, with this being a much-needed convincing victory for Celtic on the European stage, having conceded four goals in losing five of their last six Europa League group games.