'It's not nice to experience things like that' - Engels on Ibrox coin incident

Celtic midfielder Arne Engels has been reflecting on being hit on the head by a coin thrown from the crowd in the recent derby defeat to Rangers at Ibrox.

The 21-year-old Belgian was struck just above the eye as he prepared to take a corner.

"In the beginning it was a bit sore but at the end it was okay," he said.

"But it's not nice to experience things like that. You just want to play your game and just want to enjoy the football. It was not really enjoyable that night."

The former Augsburg player, in his debut season in Scotland, had never witnessed a similar incident before.

"Sometimes you see things like beer spilling all over you but not really throwing things on top of your head," he continued.

"It's never good to happen in a football stadium. You are there to do your job. I think you guys (media) never experienced something like it, that somebody will throw coins or something on your heads during your work.

"In the end you need to go through. You always need to switch on and that's why you are a football player. You always need to think about the next situation and that's what I did.

"It was in the last 10 minutes or something and you still need to play those 10 minutes. It's on a really high level game so you still need to do it."