BRENDAN RODGERS ADMITTED Bayern Munich’s individual class simply proved too much for Celtic to handle in their 3-0 Champions League defeat at the Allianz Arena.
Scottish champions Celtic struggled to lay a glove on their star-studded opponents as the hosts cruised to their second win in Group B on Wednesday.
The defeat came just three weeks after Celtic’s highly impressive win away to Anderlecht and Rodgers’ men drop three points adrift of second-placed Bayern.
While believing Celtic could have done better to prevent the goals — all three of which came from crosses — Rodgers was open in his assessment of the gulf in quality between the two sides.
“We have to respect where we are at as a club in terms of the level of player we are playing against,” Rodgers told BT Sport.
“We are limited in terms of our options in defence. The guys gave an honest performance so I was happy enough with that.
“We always have to go into every game believing we can get a result, so when we play them next time around we will be at home in front of a great crowd.
“We hope we can do better in terms of dealing with crosses and then look to create chances and hopefully take those chances.”
Celtic captain Scott Brown was similarly hopeful of forcing a different result when the two teams meet at Celtic Park in just under a fortnight.
“We could have done better with the goals we conceded but they are a top-quality side,” Brown said.
“Hopefully our fans can give them a fright and we can cause them some problems.”
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Good manager that Rodgers lad.
Celtic are a step up from the LOI the SPL is muck they’ve no real competition in it
@Jamie: Bayern would have beaten over half the clubs in the EPL 3-0 as well
@Dave O’Hanlon: very true but you have to admit the standard of the SPL is poor
@Jamie: Eh Arsenal got hammered 5-1 twice last season by Bayern.. Bayerns squad is made up of World Cup and Champions league winners, there’s probably only 5 clubs in Europe who would even stand a chance of beaten them.. Put every single club in the EPL in the same group as Celtic and nearly every single one will come third, the same position Celtic will..
@David Garland: dosent change the fact the spl is crap celtic have no competition there, you could say the same about every league in europe and it would apply to your point here.
@Jamie: and a few steps down from bayern your expert analysis baffles
Celtic need to start Dembele in the next game against Bayern. I’m a massive fan of Griffiths who I think is a better finisher but Dembele has more in his locker to play up front on his own at this level. Once he came on Celtic created a few chances as he was able to control the ball whilst shrugging off Hummels and bring Sinclair into play.
We need to get over these poor starts also. Every game so far we’ve had a poor first half then have been a lot better in the second.
@Ciaran Rice: Celtic wud need to start Neymar,Ronaldo,Messi,Suarez in next game but suspect theyre cup tied!!
Mauling is a bit Much 3-0
Isn’t the worst result
Cliche ridden claptrap as usual from a wannabe big time manager