Pre-season friendly
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Celtic Park, Glasgow

CELTIC… 1
(Duran 30)

MIDDLESBROUGH… 1
(Strelec 25)

Camilo Duran made it two goals in two games as the Colombian forward scored in a 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough at Celtic Park this afternoon.

He netted Celtic’s equaliser five minutes after David Strelec had given the visitors the lead.

Celtic started the game on the front foot, with Duran looking lively through the middle and James Forrest and Sean McArdle providing width on either flank, but Middlesbrough slowly played their way into the game and managed to take the lead with 25 minutes gone.

A corner kick was only cleared to the edge of the area, and it was slipped back into Strelec who turned and slotted the ball beyond Vil Sinisalo.

The Finnish goalkeeper, who had already did well to thwart the visitors, was unable to prevent the Slovakian striker from giving his side a 1-0 lead.

However, that lead only lasted five minutes before Martin O’Neill’s side drew level when Camilo Duran latched on to a ball from James Forrest and lifted it over the goalkeeper and into the roof of the net from six yards out to make it 1-1.

The second half saw Sinisalo produce another few strong saves to prevent Middlesbrough taking the lead, while Callum Osmand, on as a half-time substitute for Forrest, was denied by both posts.

It followed a good move down the left flank, with Mike-Ange Balikwisha threading a ball through for the overlapping Joseph Haney.

His low cross was knocked on to the left-hand post by Osmand, and when the ball spun out, the Celtic striker, who was on the ground, headed the ball on to the other post before it was scrambled clear by the Middlesbrough defence.

And at the other end, Colby Donovan provided a timely block from six yards out to prevent a second Celtic goal.

Martin O’Neill’s side will now have a full week of training at Lennoxtown before they take on AC Milan at Celtic Park next Saturday.

CELTIC: Sinisalo, Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Murray, Scales, McGregor, McCowan, Oxlade-Chamberlain, McArdle, Duran, Forrest.
Subs: Doohan, Gill, Balikwisha, Osmand, Engels, Bernardo, Ure, Montgomery, Hatton, Hatate, Turley, Haney, Kennedy

Camilo Duran on target again in pre-season clash at Paradise