Brendan Rodgers desires Celtic to return away from their Champions League play-off towards Bayern Munich with no regrets.
The guests path 2-1 going into Tuesday’s second leg on the Allianz Area and the supervisor accepts it should take a efficiency of the best high quality to achieve success however stresses that it’s a problem he and his gamers “need to embrace”.
“There is not any second probability,” mentioned Rodgers. “We have got to be intelligent, shiny and courageous and if we are able to do this, historical past has proven that in sport something can occur.
“You come to this degree and it’s a must to play with none worry. There’s worse issues in life than shedding a recreation of soccer so we need to guarantee after we are available after the sport, if we do not undergo, we have given it completely all the things.”
Bayern, event winners on six events, are unbeaten of their previous 20 Champions League dwelling matches.
The Bundesliga leaders have by no means misplaced to Celtic, profitable 4 of the 5 earlier conferences, whereas Celtic are nonetheless ready for a primary win in Germany after 15 makes an attempt.
However Rodgers is taking coronary heart from a robust end in Glasgow, with Daizen Maeda pulling a purpose again for his facet after strikes from Michael Olise and Harry Kane.
“I am so completely happy I’ve this group of gamers with unimaginable mentality and professionalism,” added Rodgers. “In the event that they present that then we all know we’re in with an opportunity.
“So long as you possibly can take that chance to provide your best possible, you possibly can are available and say ‘we had been crushed by the higher staff’. The remorse is should you do not and also you simply flip up too late.
“We have proven that after we can play on the very prime of our recreation and if a staff are usually not fairly at their greatest, then we are able to punish them.
“We have finished very nicely to get up to now and whenever you do that you will play top-level groups. It is a staff that has world-class gamers. For us it’s going to be about our collective.
“Everybody will take a look at this recreation with us as underdog however we’re nonetheless very aware to be super-competitive and, if we are able to play to our degree, we are able to make the sport very tough for Bayern.”
