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Gavin Berry

David Turnbull stripped of Celtic Europa League strike after UEFA declare it an own goal

David Turnbull has been denied his eighth goal of the season after he was stripped of his Europa League strike against Ferencvaros.

The former Motherwell man looked to have scored his second goal in succession after netting a stunner against his old club at Fir Park at the weekend.

Turnbull converted a scrappy strike against the Hungarians after following up on his initial fluffed effort to put the ball in the net late on after Kyogo Furuhashi’s opener.

But after the 22-year-old was credited with the goal, the official UEFA stats later put it down as an own goal from Balint Vecsei.

And that is a blow to Turnbull who spoke to BT Sport immediately after the game at his joy at ‘scoring’.

He said: “I was hoping it was my goal. I haven't really checked it yet.

"It's obviously good to get another goal, no matter how ugly it is they all count and that's football. From the weekend, I score one of my better goals and tonight hit a miss-hit and luckily get the tap-in.

"I was just thinking to tap it in with my left then I think I've kicked over the ball - I think I've topped it a wee bit - and then I've seen the goalie dive and thought I've still got a chance at this so I just threw myself at it and hoped it went in.

"I'm always (trying to add to his goal tally]) Right the way through my career that's what I've tried to do.

"I see myself as a goalscoring midfielder and just everyday I can, I'll work on it.

"I work on finishing, work my hardest in training, and hopefully get even more before the end of the season.

"Each game goes by I feel we're getting stronger and stronger as a kinda team.

"We're all together and you can see that tonight. We could've went on and scored even more goals, created a lot of chances and we were solid at the back so it's just about continuing the form we're on at the moment and taking that into each game.

"The manager just said this is the games we all want to play football for, we kinda had to win, it was a huge game against a good side so we knew we had to take three points from this game. It's great we done that and we need to continue the form in Europe as well."

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