Daily Record gifting RB Leipzig extra Celtic Park motivation

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·26 octobre 2024

Daily Record gifting RB Leipzig extra Celtic Park motivation

Scottish tabloid giving Celtic’s next Champions League opponents extra motivation…

Xavi Simons of RB Leipzig receives medical help during the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD3 match between RB Leipzig and Liverpool FC at Leipzig Stadium on October 23, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

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.

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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.

Marco Rose, Head Coach of RB Leipzig, gives an interview prior to the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD3 match between RB Leipzig and Liverpool FC at Leipzig Stadium on October 23, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

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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