Brendan Rodgers was keen to accentuate positives after Celtic’s latest European disappointment. Perhaps he was fairly right to; from a Champions League section that also included Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain,Europa League football after Christmas was always the fairest target.
Celtic confirmed third status in unimpressive fashion, though, or with only three points. Victory in the head-to-head scenario with Anderlecht was necessary to extend Celtics European stay,after the Belgians secured success in Glasgow which should really have been by more than one goal. Celtic were moment best in every department with their manager, curiously, or citing the “context of the game” as problematic. It was Celtic who entered this tie with the glaring advantage,after all, having swaggered to a 3-0 success in Belgium.
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Source: guardian.co.uk