Celtic's Champions League qualification hopes suffered a hefty blow after they were beaten at home by Dinamo Moscow.
With only seven minutes on the clock in Glasgow, Alexander Kokorin ghosted in behind Gary Caldwell to divert a low cross under Artur Boruc.
Marc-Antoine Fortune and Scott McDonald both missed good first-half chances to help the home team's cause.
McDonald later had an effort cleared off the line and Georgios Samaras failed to convert a point-blank header.
The defeat in Tony Mowbray's competitive debut as Celtic manager means the Glasgow club must win in Russia in a week's time or they will drop into qualifying for the Europa League.
The visitors, 15 games into their domestic season, looked the sharper side, and Celtic goalkeeper Boruc was forced to save with just four minutes on the clock.
Dinamo's Australian midfielder Luke Wilkshire struck a fierce drive from 30 yards, which the Pole clawed away from the top corner.
But the hosts did not heed that warning sign, and found themselves a goal down 90 seconds later.
Alexander Kerzhakov collected a ball into the left channel, and fired a dangerous low ball into the six-yard area where Kokorin nipped in ahead of Caldwell to get the deftest of touches through Boruc's legs.
With Celtic struggling to get to grips with the game, Dinamo continued to press and looked menacing - especially when Kherzakov received the ball, peeling out wide on the left.
Mowbray's men were finding it difficult to penetrate the Russians' tight-knit seven-man defensive structure, and in the opening quarter the best the hosts could muster was a close-range Fortune effort which was easily held by Vladimir Gabulov.
The Celtic midfield showed signs of rustiness, with Landry N'Guemo and Massimo Donati, as well as Fortune up front, guilty of surrendering possession too easily on occasion.
Chances did present themselves for Celtic, although the front pair of Fortune and McDonald lacked a predatory instinct.
Fortune missed two gilt-edged chances to score within the space of 30 seconds.
First, the striker failed to connect properly with Aiden McGeady's cross at the back post, then, only three yards out, Fortune was unable to divert Shaun Maloney's excellent ball to the other post.
With 30 minutes played, McDonald showed good skill to cut inside a defender but should have done better than shoot at the goalkeeper from the corner of the six-yard box.
After ending the first period strongly, Mowbray's side pressed straight from the restart, and McDonald had a looping header cleared off the line after good work by Maloney - who was Celtic's brightest player on the night.
Kerzhakov gave the home side reminders of his threat, as twice on the counter-attack he used his strength and pace to trouble Caldwell and Glenn Loovens at the back.
Mowbray swapped his front pairing, bringing on Chris Killen and Samaras with half an hour to play.
The Greek striker had a fantastic chance to score with four minutes to go, but he headed straight into the thankful Gabulov's arms when unmarked from just a couple of yards out, and Dinamo take a valuable away win into the second leg.
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Dinamo is one of the Russian giants, team with the rich history. In the previous season, they reached the third place (behind Rubin and CSKA) and got the chance to fight for Champions League group stage. This will be the first time that the club has taken part in the competition since its re-branding from the European Cup in 1992.. And the lack of experience playing in Europe will be the additional problem for the visitors. The biggest advantage is they’re in full competition shape. Dinamo played the half games in Russian league, while Scottish starts at August 15th. After 15 games played in domain competition, Dinamo hold 5th place with real chance to qualify for Europe, again. In the last round, in city’s derby game against Locomotiv Moscow, they played a draw (1-1), with another goal by Alexandr Kerzakhov (seven goals in 11 appearances, so far), who definitely will be the biggest threat for home’s net. The captain and very important midfielder, Dmitry Khokhlov is suspended, while the acquisition from Portugal side Braga, Luis Aguiar still isn’t fully fit and won’t appear. It is expected the talented youngsters Smolov, Kokorin and Svezhov get the chance tonight, but the big question is how they’ll react on hot atmosphere on Celtic Park.
