Scottish tabloid giving Celtic’s next Champions League opponents extra motivation…
The Daily Record this week ran with a headline that was not only total nonsense, but it also provides our next European opponents some extra motivation, if they ever needed it, for their must-win match against Celtic on Tuesday 5th November at Celtic Park.
Those opponents are RB Leipzig, and while I seriously doubt anyone in Germany reads that rag, there will be someone, somewhere who has briefed them on the Scottish press and the latest Leipzig related headline.
According to the Record Leipzig ‘fear that they they’ll struggle to survive in Glasgow’. Now I know our city has a somewhat dangerous reputation, but that is completely outrageous. No seriously I haven’t read the story, but the headline has done enough damage.
It’s obviously hinting at the fact that Leipzig will freeze under the atmosphere at Paradise, or that they will have zero confidence alongside zero points, but nothing can be further from the truth.
Yes they may have lost their first three champions league games, but they have played Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Liverpool and each time only lost by a solitary goal. Any one of those three teams could end up winning the Champions League so it’s clear that out of all the teams in the Champions League, RB Leipzig got the shortest straw in terms of being handed the toughest start.
Celtic were away to both Dortmund (last season’s Champions League finalists) and also Atalanta (last season’s Europa League winners) and lost seven goals while scoring one. But we did get one point from six and had already beaten Slovan Bratislava who like RB Leipzig have lost all three of their opening matches.
Domestically RB Leipzig they are doing fine and sit second in the Bundesliga, with only goal difference separating them from Bayern Munich and they are ahead of Dortmund. RB Leipzig are a superb side and we will have to be at our very best if we are to get a positive result against the Germans.
Thankfully every single Celtic supporter knows just that as will everyone at Lennoxtown, because Brendan Rodgers will be telling them, you can be sure of that.
That Record headline is totally misleading nonsense, not that we should be surprised. Surely they should to all they can to encourage Scottish clubs to do well in Europe, as indeed happened this week, not give the opposition extra motivation.
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A lot can happen within the footballing world on a game by game basis, within a very busy schedule?
So thinking about Leipzig, with 3 big games beforehand is just madness, one we certainly aren’t going to entertain?
A schedule that involves a semi final against the sheep, then followed by Leipzig, and ending with a trip to killie?
Is possibly the most challenging week that we are going to have to face in many a long year?
But we have to overcome a tough enough challenge in our next 2 fixtures, before we even look towards such a week.
If ever the saying within football of “one game at a time” rang true, well this certainly is the time for ourselves to apply the likes?
And remains confident that within our club, we will still apply such a winning mentality in doing so also imo?