Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers labelled Barcelona’s Luis Suarez as the best striker in the world ahead of the Scottish champions’ daunting task of stopping Suarez, Lionel Messi and Neymar in their Champions League opener on Tuesday.
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Messi would ultimately go on to bag a hat-trick, his sixth in Champions League history, while Neymar and Andres Iniesta (via a cracker) netted one each and Suarez got in on the act via a late brace.
Messi is best player in world in any position, says Luis Enrique was posted in Sports of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on September 14, 2016 and was last updated on September 14, 2016. They are very special players. It’s tough to take when you lose so many.
FC Barcelona did not leave anything to a weak Celtic Glasgow side who got demolished at Camp Nou.
Celtic captain Scott Brown blasted his, and his team-mates’, second-half performance as “unacceptable” in their 7-0 thumping at the hands of Barcelona.
The match will now be played on Wednesday at 1845GMT.
“This was Celtic’s 28th away game in the Champions League, of which they have now won just one and drawn one, losing 26”, observes The Guardian.
Champions League records, once believed to be impossible to attain, have kept stumbling after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo took to the pitch.
The torture just got worse.
Both sides finished with 10 men, as Olivier Giroud and Marco Verratti were dismissed.
“But you can’t be too downhearted”.
“They are very special players, they have incredible movement and speed and stopping them is very hard because they are world class”, he said.
Wenger had words of praise for Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina, chosen over Petr Cech.
“They got the third goal then a combination of tiredness, freshness and quality showed”.
Barcelona’s ruthless attacking force tore Celtic’s game to shreds, exposing every bit of flaw they had that night.
Meanwhile, in Munich, Carlo Ancelotti’s men strolled to a commanding 5-0 win over Rostov.
“There can be no embarrassment because they do that to better teams than ourselves, (but) it’s obviously a disappointment”, Rodgers said. “He has been able to adapt to playing different styles”.
Ancelotti described his debut in Europe with the Bavarian giants as “a great game”.
“We made a good start to the Champions League”.
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