Celtic v B M’gladbach preview

Celtic and Borussia Monchengladbach go in search of their first wins in Group C of the Champions League when they meet at Celtic Park on Wednesday evening.

Brendan Rodgers’ men took one point from their tough opening two games against Barcelona and Manchester City while Borussia Monchengladbach are one of four teams to have lost their two Champions League group games so far this season, alongside Club Brugge, Dinamo Zagreb and Legia Warsaw.

Celtic go into this game on the back of a 2-0 win over Motherwell in the Scottish Premiership with goals from Scott Sinclair and Moussa Dembele.

Meanwhile, Gladbach were held to a 0-0 draw with Hamburg – a game in which they missed two penalties. 

Erik Sviatchenko is looking for Celtic Park to put fear into their opponents. The Denmark defender’s memory is still fresh from an action-packed encounter with Manchester City last month when the 60,000-crowd rocked the Premier League stars in a pulsating 3-3 draw.

“When players and teams come here they need to be frightened,” he said. “To draw a parallel to the City game you could see that they were struggling even though they are really big stars.

“So we will do our best to create that intensity in the game tomorrow and with the fans this combination will be good.”

Team news

Defender Mikael Lustig and midfielder Nir Bitton return to the Celtic squad.

Both players missed the home win over Motherwell on Saturday after returning from the international break with Sweden and Israel respectively carrying knocks.

Midfielder Tom Rogic was rested after a long journey back from international duty with Australia and he too is back.

Meanwhile, on-loan Chelsea man Andreas …

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