Brendan Rodgers stated Celtic’s embarrassing Champions League thrashing by Borussia Dortmund impressed their fightback within the event forward of Wednesday’s conflict with Membership Brugge.
The Scottish champions slumped to a dismal 7-1 defeat in Dortmund in October as critics claimed they did not need to be in Europe’s elite membership competitors.
However Rodgers’ aspect have defied the doubts with a stable draw at Atalanta and a 3-1 victory over RB Leipzig in Glasgow.
The Dortmund humiliation is Celtic’s solely defeat in all competitions this season and Rodgers has been impressed together with his gamers’ response to that setback.
“We wish to make it actually tough for groups to play in opposition to us and we all know that we’ll need to endure at instances, however that is the extent,” he stated.
“Failure is part of the journey. And I stated it on the time and I used to be most likely checked out a bit humorous, however it may be that trampoline impact and it may bounce you again even larger. But it surely’s the way you take care of it which is necessary.
“So coping with the setback that we had that evening, you possibly can see the place it is trampolined the gamers and bounced them ahead.
“It is all in the way you react to the tough moments. This staff have proven that and confirmed that and I consider there’s nonetheless much more to come back.”
Celtic sit fifteenth within the new-look Champions League desk after 4 video games, however a win over Brugge at Parkhead could be a major step in direction of incomes a play-off place of their bid to succeed in the final 16.
Warning his staff to not underestimate the Belgian aspect, Rodgers stated: “Groups like Membership Brugge usually are not groups which can be most likely spoken about loads, possibly in the identical echelons of a few of these different massive names.
“However these are groups that you just can not underestimate. They’re very skilled on the degree.
“They have some incredible gamers, an excellent coach who’s stepped up and brought them and works them very, very nicely. So now we have to be conscious of that.”
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