Against Celtic the Austrian returns to score and puts the signature on a historical record. After the one already centered in the Champions League, with 13 years of abstinence
Sixteen years of waiting. An entire career in the middle. Then, again, the goal. Marko Arnautovic put his signing on the scoreboard in the Europa League: his network that gave the red star to the Celtic star, in the debut of the group stage. With the 1-1 of Belgrade, the Austrian striker wrote a primacy never seen before: 16 years and 217 days have passed since the last time he had scored in the UEFA/Europa League Cup, February 2009 with the Twente shirt. Then he had been his first and only European goal, remained such until yesterday. A sidereal interval, entered straight into the annals of the competition.
The record in the Champions League
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Not an unpublished, for him. Already in the Champions League Arnautovic had established a similar record. Autumn 2023, Benfica-Inter 3-3: goal after 4740 days from the last European marking, dated December 2010 with Werder Brema, irony of the fate against the Nerazzurri. Even there, nobody had ever waited so much. Today, at 36, Marko has returned home. After the titles won with Inter and the protagonist seasons in Bologna, he chose the Red Star, as he had promised Sinisa Mihajlovic. And who knows that this is not an opportunity to write new pages of his infinite career yet.