BSC Young Boys drew 0-0 with bottom of the league Winterthur on Saturday ahead of their UEFA Champions League outing at Celtic Park tomorrow night…

Swiss Champions are toiling
The Swiss Champions are toiling in Europe’s elite club competition this season and currently sit rock bottom of the 36-team format on zero points after six matches.
Defeats to Aston Villa, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Shakhtar Donetsk, Atalanta and VfB Stuttgart mean Giorgino Contini’s side have shipped 22 goals whilst only scoring on three occasions across their dismal campaign.
Indeed, if this was last season’s Champions League campaign, Young Boys would be one goal better off than the worst performing team ever in a single Champions League group stage bout [theRangers 2022/2023 – two goals scored and 22 conceded].
BSC Young Boys Ninth in Swiss Super League
Life domestically for the Bern club isn’t much better. The reigning champions are ninth in the Swiss Super League table and are only seven points off a relegation playoff position after 19 matches.
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Frustration was compounded on Saturday in their return to competitive football for the first time since 15 December when Young Boys played out a 0-0 draw against Swiss minnows Winterthur.
A fall from grace for BSC Young Boys
It has been a fall from grace for BSC Young Boys who arrive at Celtic Park having had the season from hell. Ex-boss Patrick Ruhmen who had taken over from title-winning manager Raphael Wicky in the summer was sacked in October following a horrid start to their league season which hasn’t improved.
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Current boss Contini has been in charge since December after Young Boys initially placed an interim in the dugout to take the team for two months before they found a permanent gaffer.
It has been a win and a draw for the former Switzerland assistant in the Young Boys hot-seat so far with his toughest assignment yet awaits tomorrow night at Paradise.
Celtic must be wary of Swiss opponents
Celtic must be wary of their Swiss opponents despite the narrative pointing towards a comprehensive home win. Contini may use this meaningless Champions League encounter to rest some players for a relegation six-pointer versus Grasshopper in the Swiss top-flight on Saturday.
Conor Spence

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With the amount of money involved within CL, there are no dead rubber games as such.
Of course we are strong favourites to get the win and progress.
But we will still have to earn the victory and no room for complacency within ourselves either, can be on show.
We preform to our capabilities then everything should be grand for ourselves?
Football still has a horrible way of things not going according to plan also, so an element of caution might need to be applied also.