Arne Slot reflects on Feyenoord’s Champions League run and looks ahead to match against Celtic

NOS Voetbal•vandaag, 18:42

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Feyenoord will mainly play for honor against Celtic tomorrow (9 p.m.). The Rotterdam team fell just short of beating Atlético Madrid and Lazio. But that made very little difference, according to trainer Arne Slot.

At the press conference in Glasgow for Feyenoord’s last Champions League match of this season, he reflected on his team’s elimination.

Why didn’t it just not work out? “We are just short of not being dependent on luck. If you watch all the matches, you can hardly believe that you only have six points. We have been a bit unlucky, but I am very satisfied with how we presented ourselves. “

Vision and luck

Scottish journalists saw Feyenoord as an example for Celtic: how can a less wealthy club perform on the highest European stages?

Slot’s answer: “There are two things that are important when you have no money: a good vision of how you want to play and some luck. Tomorrow two teams will play against each other here that have had no luck at all in the first five Champions League matches. “

Celtic are missing three players

Celtic will be without Japanese forward Daizen Maeda and American defender Cameron Carter-Vickers on Wednesday. The Japanese Reo Hatate is also not yet fit to compete.

Celtic coach Brendan Rodgers said this at the press conference on Tuesday.

Because things weren’t going well for the Scots either, Slot thought. “Celtic really impressed at home against Lazio and Atlético. They were very unlucky.”

Hartman back again

On Tuesday, Slot will again have access to Calvin Stengs and Quilindschy Hartman. The latter suffered a mild concussion against PSV.

Finally, it does not rule out that a number of regular basic players will be rested against Celtic. Feyenoord still has two games to go until the winter break, against Heracles and in the cup against FC Utrecht.

Celtic-Feyenoord at NOS

The match between Celtic and Feyenoord starts on Wednesday at 9 p.m. and can be followed in a live blog in the NOS app and on NOS.nl. The match can be followed in its entirety on the radio Along the Line and Surrounding Areas on NPO Radio 1.

A short summary of the match can be seen on NPO1 in the evening NOS News (11:25 p.m.).

2023-12-12 17:42:09
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