Swedish manager Age Hareide has effectively rebuilt his team and, in doing so, endured no pause in delivering them to the top table of European football.
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“To play like a pig is to play dirty”.
Celtic suffered heartache at this stage last season when they were eliminated 2-1 on aggregate by Slovenian side NK Maribor.
“We scored three goals which is a positive thing and we scored more goals here than we did past year so I think we are going in the right direction”.
The Scottish champions travel to Sweden on Tuesday with a slim 3-2 advantage from the first leg at Celtic Park last week.
Leading 3-2 from the first leg of their play-off clash in Glasgow, the visitors fell behind in the 23rd minute to a goal from skipper Markus Rosenberg who was banned for the first game.
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“We have to get better, that’s the main thing”. But he is adamant that neither option causes him a problem.
RONNY DEILA last night insisted Celtic WILL win the biggest match of his life in Malmo to crash into the Champions League.
Celtic are also not in the habit of winning on their travels.
Celtic now needed to score twice and the urgency of its situation was summed up as Griffiths sliced wasteful over from a Stefan Johansen flick-on – its attacking becoming more fitful.
The Hoops boss led his squad to Sweden yesterday convinced his players are good enough to survive a £20million shootout in Swedbank Stadium to rub shoulders with Europe’s elite in the world’s biggest club competition.
Back in the Premier League and Liverpool and Arsenal played out one of the most unstereotypical 0-0 draws at the Emirates last night.
Bitton then entered the book for a foul on Djurdjic and in the 72nd minute he was replaced by Nadir Ciftci, as Deila looked for another way back into the tie, while also protecting his midfielder from a possible second card. We looked very uncomfortable on the ball, we didn’t want the ball. “But we have to move on and know that we are ahead and we are going to do this in Malmo“, said Deila.
Celtic may feel aggrieved at a Nir Bitton goal just before half-time which was strangely disallowed but apart from that they rarely threatened the Malmo goal.
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“If you meet Real Madrid and you are the best you can be, they have to have a bad day for us to win”.
