Bayern bid for improved as Celtic come to Munich
FC Bayern München are looking to regroup after a important reversal in their second Group B fixture, and will aim to get behind on lane opposite a Celtic FC side buoyed by a singular divided feat final time out.
• Bayern were beaten 3-0 during Paris Saint-Germain on matchday two, a better that stirred the depart of manager Carlo Ancelotti a following day. Celtic, meanwhile, won by a same scoreline during RSC Anderlecht final time out.Â
Previous meetings
• The sides’ usually past fixtures came in a 2003/04 organisation stage, when Bayern picked adult 4 points from their dual games opposite Celtic.
• Bayern, afterwards coached by Ottmar Hitzfeld, came from behind to win 2-1 in Munich on matchday one, Roy Makaay scoring dual late goals (73, 86) after Alan Thompson had given Martin O’Neill’s Celtic a 57th-minute lead.
• The line-ups during a Olympiastadion on 17 Sep 2003 were:
Bayern: Kahn, Sagnol, KovaÄ, Linke, Lizarazu (Rau 73), Hargreaves, Salihamidžić (Santa Cruz 73), Ballack, Zé Roberto, Pizarro, Makaay.
Celtic: Hedman, Agathe, Varga, Baldé, McNamara, Petrov, Lennon, Thompson, Sutton, Hartson (Miller 66), Larsson.
• The game during Celtic Park on 25 Nov 2003 finished goalless. Hasan Salihamidžić, now Bayern’s sporting director, and Willy Sagnol, now partial of a coaching staff, featured in both matches.
Match background
Bayern
• This is Bayern’s initial diversion opposite a Scottish bar given a 5-1 win during home to Aberdeen FC in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup turn of 32 second leg (7-3 aggregate).
• Bayern have won their final 4 matches opposite Scottish visitors in Munich, and are dominant during home opposite clubs from Scotland (W6 D3).
• Bayern competent for a organisation theatre after winning their fifth true Bundesliga pretension in 2016/17. The German side are aiming to strech a knockout rounds for a tenth deteriorate in a row.
• The Munich club, 3-0 victors during home to Anderlecht in their initial Group B game, won all 16 of their European home matches between 17 Sep 2014 and 15 Feb this year; a 2-1 detriment to Real Madrid CF in a quarter-finals was their initial retreat in Munich given a 4-0 better by a same opponents in their 2013/14 semi-final second leg.
• Carlo Ancelotti’s organisation came second in their organisation behind Club Atlético de Madrid in 2016/17 – the initial time they had unsuccessful to win their territory given 2009/10. They kick Arsenal FC 10-2 on total in a turn of 16, usually to lose 6-3 over dual legs to Madrid.
• Bayern have won all 10 organisation home games given a 3-2 retreat during a hands of Manchester City FC on matchday 6 in 2013/14.
Celtic
• Beaten 5-0 by Paris in Glasgow in their Group B opener, their biggest home European defeat, Celtic finished a ten-game (D3 L7), four-year winless run in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre by overcoming Anderlecht. Their prior win was a 2-1 home success opposite AFC Ajax on 22 Oct 2013.
• The Anderlecht win was a Hoops’ initial for 17 European organisation theatre fixtures in a UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League (D7 L9).
• In 2016/17 Celtic came fourth in their section, holding 3 points from 6 games. They suffered a record 7-0 detriment during FC Barcelona though drew 1-1 during both VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach and Manchester City FC.
• The Mönchengladbach draw, their second in period in Germany, left Celtic with a record W0 D3 L7 divided to Bundesliga clubs.
• The Scottish champions are on a seven-game winless run, home and away, opposite German clubs (D3 L4). Paul Lambert, Shaun Maloney and Stiliyan Petrov scored when Celtic final overcame German antithesis – 3-1 during home opposite VfB Stuttgart in a 2002/03 UEFA Cup fourth round.
• Celtic started this deteriorate in a second subordinate round, violence Linfield FC (2-0 away, 4-0 home) and afterwards Rosenborg BK in a third subordinate turn (0-0 home, 1-0 away). They posted a fifth true purify piece with a 5-0 win opposite FC Astana in a home initial leg of their play-off, advancing notwithstanding a 4-3 detriment in Kazakhstan that finished a four-game (W2 D2) dominant divided run in Europe.
• The feat during Linfield pennyless Celtic’s 11-match method but an divided win in Europe (D6 L5).
• Scottish champions for a sixth uninterrupted debate in 2016/17 – when they went by their domestic deteriorate dominant – Celtic are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time.
Coach and actor links
• Arturo Vidal helped Juventus kick Celtic away (3-0) and home (2-0) in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League turn of 16.
• Manuel Neuer, Jérôme Boateng and Thomas Müller, who scored both goals, all started for Germany in their 2-1 UEFA EURO 2016 subordinate feat over Scotland on 7 Sep 2014.
• Neuer, Boateng, Müller and Mats Hummels started Germany’s 3-2 better of Scotland during Hampden Park in a lapse tie a year later, Müller again scoring twice. Scott Brown and James Forrest started for Scotland.
• Robert Lewandowski scored twice during Hampden Park in Poland’s 2-2 pull in Oct 2015; Brown and Forrest started for Scotland with Craig Gordon on a bench.
• Franck Ribéry and Brown both started Scotland’s 1-0 win divided to France in UEFA EURO 2008 subordinate on 12 Sep 2009.
• A Tom Rogic idea was not adequate to forestall Australia losing 3-2 to Germany, for whom Joshua Kimmich supposing an assist, in a 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.
• Rafinha won his initial Brazil top for some-more than 3 years in a 4-0 accessible win opposite Rogic’s Australia on 13 Jun 2017.
• International team-mates:
Kingsley Coman Moussa Dembélé, Olivier Ntcham (France Under-21s)