Celtic in the UEFA Champions League 2024-25

We are at home to Young Boys next who are the worst team in the format this year. If we want to qualify we need to win this game which will put us to 12 points which is enough. Villa away is a free hit imho so hopefully they have already qualified by then and rest some players to focus on the Prem as their schedule is as hectic as ours.

 

I think we are going to have to play better than we have been to get the win against YB even at home and given their record so far. Zagreb were a pretty poor team given their injuries and we struggled to create against them, Rangers are a poor team and have twice taken 3 goals of us in the last few weeks. I do think we need to try find a little extra again in order to peak for that game.

To me given our league position and the high probability we win the league the YB game is the most important one we have coming up. A win shows actual tangible progress to reach the second stage of the competition not to mention between prize money for the game €2.1m, the fact it will increase our final table position, the €1m Euros bonus for reaching the playoffs and another £3m in ticket sales from the home league of the play off the games worth in the realms of £6-7m for the club. I know we have plenty of money in the bank but that’s the equivalent of a good player at our level and we feel like we are approaching the end of a cycle with some of this team at the moment.

 

Got a couple of weeks to get our head back in the game and I think we will.
Been a virus floating about, we've played about 10 games in 30 days.
We've gotten through the festive chaos and think our focus will shift and get a couple of days rest in prep for young boys.

 

Just need to make sure we’re on the players backs from minute 5 if we see any back passes

 

We’ve beaten 2nd bottom and 3rd bottom so far and next match is against bottom club.
Hope we destroy them