Celtic influenced by Bayern challenge
Celtic FC will need to urge their European home form as FC Bayern München, who won 3-0 opposite a Scottish champions final time out, come to Glasgow.
• Brendan Rodgers’ side have 3 points from their 3 Group B fixtures and are third in a section, 3 points behind their second-placed opponents. Celtic will be incompetent to finish in a tip dual if they remove and leaders Paris Saint-Germain equivocate better during home to bottom organisation RSC Anderlecht, who are though a indicate or a idea so far.
• Bayern were good beaten in Paris in their initial Group B divided fixture, though are second in a standings carrying won both home games 3-0. Should Jupp Heynckes’ organisation win in Glasgow, they would secure a top-two finish supposing Paris win or draw.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ usually past encounters came in a 2003/04 organisation stage, when Bayern picked adult 4 points from their dual matches 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 game during Celtic Park on 25 Nov 2003 finished goalless. Hasan Salihamidžić, now Bayern’s sporting director, featured in both matches.
• The full line-ups during Celtic Park on 25 Nov 2003 were:
Celtic: Hedman, Agathe (Miller 63), Baldé, Varga, McNamara, Thompson, Lennon, Petrov, Hartson (Sylla 86), Sutton, Larsson.
Bayern: Kahn, Sagnol, KovaÄ, Kuffour, Lizarazu, Hargreaves, Salihamidžić, Ballack, Jeremies, Santa Cruz (Pizarro 73), Makaay.
Match background
Celtic
• Beaten 5-0 by Paris in Glasgow in their Group B opener, their biggest European home defeat, Celtic halted a ten-game (D3 L7), four-year winless run in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre by overcoming Anderlecht 3-0 on matchday two, their biggest divided feat in a UEFA Champions League. Their prior win had been a 2-1 home success over 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).
• Celtic have won usually dual of their final 7 European home matches (D2 L3).
• Celtic have won usually one of their final 8 home games in a UEFA Champions League correct (D1 L6).
• In 2016/17 a Glasgow bar came fourth in their section, collecting 3 points from 6 games. They drew during home to Manchester City FC (1-1) and mislaid 2-0 to both VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Barcelona.
• The Mönchengladbach better left Celtic with a record W3 D2 L5 during home to Bundesliga sides. They have mislaid a final two.
• The Scottish champions are on an eight-game winless run, home and away, opposite German clubs (D3 L5). Paul Lambert, Shaun Maloney and Stiliyan Petrov scored when Celtic final overcame German opposition – winning 3-1 during home to 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.
• Scottish champions for a sixth uninterrupted debate in 2016/17 – when they went by their domestic deteriorate unbeaten – Celtic are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time.
Bayern
• Beaten 3-0 during PSG on matchday two, call a depart of manager Carlo Ancelotti, Bayern have won usually dual of their final 9 European divided games, losing five.
• Matchday 3 was Bayern’s initial assembly with 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).
• The German team’s record in Scotland is W2 D3 L3. The 2-2 pull during Aberdeen in 2008 extended their dominant divided strain opposite Scottish sides to 4 matches (W2 D2).
• Bayern competent for a organisation theatre after winning their fifth true Bundesliga pretension in 2016/17. The Bavarians are aiming to strech a knockout rounds for a tenth deteriorate in a row.
• Under Ancelotti, Bayern claimed usually 3 points on their travels in final year’s organisation stage, winning during PSV Eindhoven though losing during Club Atlético de Madrid and FC Rostov.Â
• Bayern came second in their organisation behind Atlético Madrid in 2016/17 – a 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.
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 concealment 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 2007.
• 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 warranted 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)