Captain Callum McGregor says the hard-fought draw at Pink Star Belgrade in Celtic’s Europa League opener gives “perception once more” as they try for additional enchancment.
Following the frustration of their Champions League play-off defeat to Kairat Almaty final month, Brendan Rodgers’ kicked off their Europa marketing campaign with some extent as Kelechi Iheanacho’s opener in Serbia was cancelled out by Marko Arnautovic.
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Celtic host Hibs within the Premiership on Saturday earlier than welcoming Braga to Parkhead for the subsequent European check subsequent Thursday.
“It isn’t a foul end result when you concentrate on the circumstances of coming to Belgrade and being away from residence within the first recreation,” midfielder McGregor mentioned.
“Hopefully that provides us a very good platform transferring ahead and offers the workforce perception once more that we are able to come to a spot like this and management the sport and are available away with some extent.
“It is at all times vital to get factors as early as you possibly can. Coming right here as a comparatively new workforce, it was a very good template of how we need to work. We’ll get higher because the video games go however I feel as a place to begin it was fairly good.
“Hopefully we’ll develop in perception and get higher because the video games go on. We have eight video games to qualify for the subsequent spherical and that is the place we need to be.”