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Brendan Rodgers: “No embarrassment” in Barcelona

Three days after Celtic demolished Rangers 5-1 at Parkhead, they were themselves demolished by a rampant Barcelona, who ran out 7-0 winners at the Camp Nou in their Champions League encounter yesterday.

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“Credit the goalkeeper”, Rodgers added.

“Moussa is happy to accept the responsibility and the keeper read it”.

“That was a moment for us that needed to go our way. When the ball hits the back of the net for us it would have given us a lot of energy, so I think that was a turning point”.

The defeat leaves Celtic bottom of Group C with Manchester City still to play Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday after their match was called off because of heavy rain.

It was a “harrowing night” for Chelsea’s players and a “sobering” one for Rodgers, whose efforts to keep Barca at bay with five at the back failed badly, says Michael Grant of The Times. We have had a brilliant start to the season and this won’t hamper us in any way, you will always take the positives from it. The players couldn’t have come to a more hard place after playing such an intense game at the weekend.

The Blaugrana’s South American trident scored 90 goals between them in La Liga last term as they went on to lift the title.

“Even the older ones will learn from that and that will make us a better team”.

“Once we started to get a bit of belief and confidence to pass the ball we started to create opportunities”.

Neymar teed Messi up to smash home the opening goal after three minutes and laid on the pass for the Argentine’s second strike later in the first half and there was no sign the feted trio had lost any of their nearly telepathic understanding.

“I look technically at the game”.

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“We gave away a goal very early which is certainly not what you want to do here”.

Neymar Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez started together for the first time this season