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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The simplest rule change would be if a team don’t score a goal they don’t get a point.
0-0 no side gets a point.
1-1 2-2 etc a point each.
That way if you don’t score at least 1 goal you lose.
Excellent idea.
Right lads – we’ll let you score one and then you let us score one and then we’ll start playing properly.
I’d prefer something more like Rugby. Maybe a bonus point for scoring 3.
They should do it so that no game is a draw in a league , a tie after 90 mins goes to penalties
I always thought in a draw the away team gets 2 points, home team one.
A bonus point for scoring three goals would just increase the gap between the big teams and the rest. Imagine the state of La Liga or the Bundesliga if that rule was introduced!
Some fine new product has arrived in Amsterdam, it seems.
Reckon VanB asten knows more about the game than the lot of us put together
He does. It doesn’t make his ideas right.
I think the rule needs changing, not abolishing
It’ll be like school again, playing world cup and it was always the useless lad who hung on the post that won it
Haha beat me to it! Good auld world cup and heads and v’s!
Peter that’s called hatching
NO MOOTCHING LADS
Ridiculous, it would negate high pressing and make teams sit back. Meaning very little in the way of counter attacks and a lot of possession without a lot of action.
He is dead right when he says football needs to change. It’s full of cheats, time wasters, cry babies and the rules are cementing the status quo when they should be trying to change it.
Interesting debate – UEFA have obviously already abolished penalising hand-ball in the box with a penalty judging from the officials completely ignoring 3 of them in last Wednesday night’s Europa Cup Final!!
I taste grapes, sour merseyside grapes
I’m trying my VERY best to have a laugh at it now, Marc, a bit of good-humoured banter, despite the persistent frustration!
Completely ignoring 3!!
You reckon you deserved ’3′ penalties.
Kop yerself on
WOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHH!!!
Was listening to football weekly a while back and jimbo had a great idea to make everything more competitive and interesting. 3 points available per game as usual. If you win you get 2 and if it’s by more than 2 goals you get the bonus. If you lose by just the 1 you get 0 points but if it’s 2 goals or more you are docked a point. It would certainly keep the table interesting and you could forget about counting on games in hand as being necessarily good things.