Brendan Rodgers Claims Celtic Would’ve Beaten Barcelona With Lionel Messi

“It [Dembele’s chance] is more hard when you see it again – it was just behind him – but these are moments that he will learn from”.

That chance for the hosts fell to Moussa Dembele when he headed straight at Ter Stegen from only six yards out on 53 minutes when putting his effort either side of the goalkeeper would have leveled proceedings. Lacking sufficient power and direction, it was saved by Barca’s German goalkeeper.

Neymar has provided seven assists in just five games in Europe, with four coming during Barca’s 7-0 demolition of Celtic at the Camp Nou on September 14.

“I’ve said this a few times”, he answered. I think that this time the Catalans win the owners and no home ground, no fans, no help to avoid defeat. “I don’t listen to those stories”.

“I think I will stay here 100 per cent”. They pressed well and tactically the players improved. “They’ve played three of the best teams in Europe during the course of this competition and we’ve gradually got better with each game”.

“Hopefully we can come back even stronger next season”. So to go 2-0 down after missing the header was disappointing.

“Leo always wants to play and I’m sure he’ll be ready”, said manager Luis Enrique.

“This Barca team are solvent, able to overcome one of the toughest Champions League groups with a match to spare”, the Coach said after the game. What can I take from our recent history against them? Sinclair is 15/4 to score this week with bet365 while a goal for Dembele is 11/4. We were always in the game, but then we get punished with the penalty.

“We showed that we could be equal to them on an evening”.

“If you look at the first game compared to now, we weren’t fearful tonight”.

“The players certainly can take inspiration from not only that game and the game we had here against Manchester City”.

“It’s going to be a different game”, the Spaniard said. And small details come from experience. We watched the video of the match again and we’ve learned a lot from it.

The former Chelsea boss has however quashed the rumours, saying that it wouldn’t be right for the striker to leave the Blaugrana since “Messi belongs to Barcelona”.