Is it better to be humiliated in front of an entire continent, as Celtic have suffered in recent seasons, or to miss football completely in the Champions League?
For many Hoops fans, the failure to beat Midtjylland, Cluj or Ferencvaros in qualifying is far worse than a major loss to the star surrounded by Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich or Barcelona.
Fighting for business with Lionel Messi or Robert Lewandowski is one thing. Another fact is the home double of the Romanian forward, who has only scored six goals in the last two seasons.
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On the other hand, if Celtic are defending as was the case in much of their 2-1 loss to AZ Alkmaar last month, a match in which Stephen Welsh and £ 4m summer signing Carl Starfelt They made terrible mistakes, don’t be fooled. Betting against Bayer Leverkusen or Real Betis is yet another lesson for the team that conceded the most goals in the Europa League group stage as the Neil Lennon era unfolded last season.
Celtic will have to be attentive to Real Betis
Celtic rival Real Betis on Thursday over tea, finished sixth in La Liga last season.
They have World Cup winner Nabil Fekir, a silky Spanish international playmaker in Sergio Canales, a £ 28 million forward in Borja Iglesias, not to mention 64-time Portuguese forward William Carvalho, former Barcelona defender Marco Belcarler for the Barcelona and the Copa América medalist Guido. Rodriguez.
In addition, in Cristian Tello, Betis also has a player who knows what it takes not only to defeat Celtic, but also to destroy it.
Tello was the one who drove the last nail in the coffin seven years ago, scoring the last goal of the night when Barcelona got the haunted, defeated Celtic 6-1 at Camp Nou, and his shot ricocheted off the fresh face of Virgil van Dijk. .
“These are just the results and the performances that we needed. We are really stuck on delivering a good performance, very intense from front to back, ”said the fast full-time winger. objective.
“We worked hard, we moved the ball so well and pushed so hard that Celtic didn’t have a chance to think. You can see all of this in the size of the score. “
Celtic fans will pray that, as they prepare to face Tell again in Spain, history does not repeat itself in any way.
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