Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers urged his team to play without fear and has no remorse against Bayern Munich.
The Rodgers team traveled to Germany 2-1 in the final of the knockout in the Champions League, but Diesen Maida’s late goal in Parkhid gave Hope fans a glimmer of hope.
Celtic in the knockout tours for the first time in 12 years, and Rodgers feel that the pressure is stopped by the second leg in Allianz Arena.
“It is a challenge at this level,” said Rodgers. “But it is something that we want to embrace, this challenge,” Rodgers said.
“We have achieved well to reach this point. When you reach this point, you want to play a top level. This team has international players.
“I think it is just spelling that you come to this level and you have to play without any fear.
“I think there are worse things in life that can occur from the loss of a football game. So for us, we want to make sure that when we come after the game, if we do not pass, we have fully presented everything.
“I look at this game and I am very happy because this group of players have an unbelievable and professional mindset and they can go and show it.
Then we know that we are facing a chance as long as you can seize this opportunity to give your best. Unfortunately, if you don’t, you have appeared too late for the game.
“So there is no second chance. We have the same chance.
“I see it is a great opportunity. I know that even if we went out after this game, this was a great adventure for us this season and we have shown progress at this level. This is what we wanted to do. We wanted to make sure we have these respect.”
“Celtic has learned lessons from Dortmund’s defeat.”
Rodgers believe that Celtic has learned major lessons from the 7-1 defeat by Borussia Dortmund in the second match.
“In Dortmund, we chased the game,” said Rodgers. “We registered early and the lessons of that. Our plan was to be stable, firm and compact.
“I think this was the great learning for us from that game. You are not narrow, because you are not stable, you are not compressed, you are not focused and leave a space for players on a world level.
“It is the group sign. We are a modest group. We have moved away and we had some good offers after that.”
The main dilemma of the Rodgers seems to be whether Maeda or Adam Idah will start during the center after he helped the Japanese striker change the game by pressing him when he moved inside during the first stage.
This may mean that Gotta has started his third match since his return to Celtic and Rodgers will be happy to start the Portuguese wing.
“Yes, if we decide that this is what we have to do,” he said.
Ken doubted the face injury
Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane sat the training on Monday afternoon, which was a fitness in the Champions League match against Celtic.
England captain, who scored the winner of Bayern’s 2-1 victory over the hoops last Wednesday, suffered a face injury at the end of Saturday, the Bundesliga at Bayer Leverkusen.
When asked about the availability of Kane in the second stage of the Tuesday match of the exit phase, coach coach Vincent Kompany said: “Nothing is bad with Harry, but we do not have much time to recover.
“Sometimes you need an additional day. But we’ll see how Harry feels in the morning. I assume nothing bad. We haven’t had a long time to recover.”
When he was later pressed at his press conference before the match, the Belgian said: “I was a bit foggy on how to say that, whether it is fit or not. Maybe a little of the red herring. I can only say that we will only see (on Tuesday). “
“We need to benefit from being at home.”
Kompany also has a suspicion of Joao for her sick, but he knows that he is expected to win his team even though the draw will see them.
“I am talking here to people they understand,” he said. “It is the same for us and Celtic. You need to win every home game and make the difference. It is the same every week, for us and CELTIC.
“When you play against the teams that are used to controlling many goals in the domestic league and scoring them in the domestic league, you have a team that is always dangerous when they advance.
“Celtic also showed it, but we achieved a good performance against them. We still have to play the second half of this tie. The parameters have not changed. But we are the main leg and we want to benefit from it.”
Kompany added: “A lot can happen in a game like this. We need to prepare for everything, whether it is sitting or pressing high.
“But there is a lot between that that can determine the game. We need to be mentally there to do the right thing.”
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