Manager: It's a great night for the football club

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·5 November 2024

Manager: It's a great night for the football club

It was an incredible night under the lights at Paradise as the Celts beat RB Leipzig 3-1 in the UCL thanks to goals from Nicolas Kuhn and Reo Hatate.

Leipzig took the lead from a corner but Nicolas Kuhn levelled with a screamer from outside the box which went in off of the post.

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Kuhn then gave the Hoops the lead just before half time, before Reo Hatate added a third for the Celts with just under 20 minutes to go.

Speaking to Celtic TV after the match, Brendan Rodgers reflected on a special night for the club as he heaped praise on to his side.

“It’s a great night for the football club,” he said. “The result, the performance, the energy in the stadium.

“The supporters will go away feeling really good about their team.

‘The players deserve all the credit in the world. They started the game really well, played with confidence, pressed the game well.’

“But we played our way in to the game, showed a maturity to get the ball working again and then we get the goal.

“Over the course of the game I thought we were really dominant, both in our pressing of the game and our hunger for the second goal.

“We got that and then I thought in the second half we managed the game really well.”

The Celts’ boss also hailed tonight’s performance as the most complete he has seen in all his time as Celtic manager.

He added: “We’ve beaten Leipzig before and won other games at this level. But I think just the quality of the team that they have and seeing where they sit.

“They’ve only conceded five goals all season, so for us to score three and had other opportunities tells you how vibrant the team was and how exciting they were.

“There’s no doubt, in terms of result and level of opponent, this is the best one.

“That’s three games in a row we’ve won here in the Champions League.

“After Dortmund, if you had said we would get four points from the next two games against Atalanta and RB Leipzig, people wouldn’t have believed you.”