If you can score the penalty and get it to 1-1 then it can make the crowd a bit nervy, especially after the weekend loss [against Alaves].
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“But, of course, not long after that they got the second goal and I think in the second half we ran out of legs to be honest”. “I thought in the first period of the game our set-up and organisation was good”.
“Professionally it is never nice when that happens”, said Rodgers.
One of Gamboa’s first touches in a green and white hooped shirt was a telling one as he managed to nick the ball off the toes of Suarez in the second minute, just as the striker was about to connect with the first of many brilliantly precise passes Messi made on the night.
But second half we ran out of legs, the game at the weekend added to their vast quality made it very hard.
Celtic, having missed a penalty to equalise, were 2-0 down at half-time and were swept aside after the break.
“They could not have come to a more hard place in word football, after a highly intense game at the weekend where they put so much into it and dealt with so much pressure and played so well”.
“They are very special players, they have incredible movement and speed and stopping them is very hard because they are world class”, he said. Rodgers suggested, somewhat hilariously, that things could’ve been different had Dembele converted his 24th-minute penalty.
“When you start so badly against a team of that quality, if you have no experience, if you are too young, you can be caught”.
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Rodgers, whose defence included another former Red Kolo Toure for the Barca mauling, said: “This is going to be a brilliant learning season for us in the competition”.
“It is tough when you lose so many goals”. Andres Iniesta – coming in as a substitute, and the rest of Messi’s hat-trick that night – proverbial in his reading of the European game, added further misery to Brendan Rodgers’ side.
Messi and Neymar were reunited with Luis Suarez from the start for the first time this season and took no time in getting reacquainted as all three were on the scoresheet. “It moves so fast and so do they”.
“But at the level we played at tonight it would have been hard (for any opponent)”.
He said: “They’re entitled to score goals, they’re a great team, but we should do better than that”.
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Both teams finished with 10 players.
