Watch Age Hareide lose his cool over the Malmo player’s ‘pig’ comments

The Bhoys haven’t lost a competitive match in normal time since back in March and although in the last couple of seasons their Champions League performances have been less than impressive they’ll be hoping to take some winning momentum into that game into this one.

The Malmo goalkeeper Johan Wiland branded Celtic players “grisar” – a Swedish word that directly translates as “pigs” – in an interview with Swedish journalists immediately after Celtic’s 3-2 first-leg win last week.

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CELTIC superfan Jay Beatty has delivered another message to the Hoops ahead of tonight’s Champions League clash with Malmo. “They can say what they want about me or anybody else in the side, but we have a job to do and we will go and do it. “Their comments in the paper have just been silly”.

Asked if the cocky comments could be a defence mechanism against a fear of failure, Griffiths nodded and said: “They know how good side we are”.

And he believes the headlines leading up to the game will have inspired his players.

“We now know more about how to play Celtic”.

“Teams will always try to manipulate you and try and do stuff to get you wound up, but the manager will be cool, will be calm and he’ll have that instilled in us by the time we go out for kick-off”.

Celtic, though, could well pay the ultimate penalty for Berget’s late strike at Celtic Park last week and the 7/4 (2.75) quote on offer for Malmo to turn the tie on its head and qualify for the group stages is the recommended play for punters ahead of this Champions League crunch clash. It’s going to be an interesting battle in Sweden and we’re backing the goals and drama that makes the UCL the best club competition around.