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In the play -off match, the first leg of the ticket in the 16th round of the Champions League 2024 – 2025 took place at 3 o’clock on February 13, Celtic was played at home. This is a huge advantage of teachers and coach Brendan Rodgers when they own a series of 10 consecutive victories at Celtic Park. In the framework of the most prestigious European tournament in Europe, the Scottish representative is unbeaten in the last 5 matches to play at home. In the opposite direction, Bayern Munich won only 1 match in the last 5 trips. All 3 defeats that teachers and coach Vincent Kompany suffered in the Champions League group stage came away, when they confronted Aston Villa, Barcelona and Feyenoord.
When Harry Kane possesses high form, Bayern Munich has many opportunities to win against Celtic.
Before the match, coach Rodgers also mentioned the fulcrum to cheer himself and students. He shared: “We have great players in the squad and are achieving high confidence. The next night will be extremely exciting. 60,000 people will fire for Celtic and we will receive a lot of energy From there. We will cause many difficulties for Bayern Munich and wait to see where everything goes. “
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However, this seems to be the only advantage that Celtic owns. What coach Rodgers emphasized before this confrontation is mostly just the spiritual strength of the players. By the fact, the professional strength of Bayern Munich is superior. The offensive stars include Jamal Musiara, Leroy Sane or Harry Kane is a great challenge for Celtic’s defense. Despite not having too high performance in this year’s tournament, Bayern Munich also belongs to the groups with the most goals when there are 20 times tearing the opponent. At this time, Kane is also leading the race to the title of European Golden Shoes with 21 goals, with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. In all competitions, the England captain has scored 28 goals and 10 assists. Those are impressive numbers.
In addition, Bayern Munich’s ability to control the ball is also extremely impressive. In the last 10 matches, their average ball held up to more than 70%. This allows Kompany’s students to master the game, creating many opportunities. However, they also need to be careful when they attacked because Celtic is a very good team in the situation of changing the state from defense to attack.
“Gray Lobster” will put all their efforts on the Champions League arena. At the Bundesliga this season, the Bavaria team has a series of 7 consecutive wins to monopolize the top of the rankings. The distance between them and the second team Bayer Leverkusen now has reached 9 points. Without any surprise, Bayern Munich will reclaim the throne of Germany after a season occupied by teachers and coach Xabi Alonso. When there is no too much pressure in the domestic arena, Bayern Munich will especially focus on the Celtic confrontation on the away field to take advantage of winning tickets to the round of 16 teams.
With Celtic, they do not show too well in the Champions League group stage this season. Despite receiving favorable draw results when rivals in group 1 and their group 2 are only Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Atalanta and Club Brugge, they are only 21st with 12 points. The experience of playing with the “big” of Scottish representatives this season is almost none. In addition, Celtic’s confrontation record with Bayern Munich is also very poor when there is only 1 draw and lost 3 matches. This is also the reason why many experts judge that Celtic is hard to create a surprise before the “Gray Lobster” in the upcoming battle.
In the early morning of February 13, the remaining 3 pairs were Club Brugge – Atalanta, Monaco – Benfica and Feyenoord – AC Milan.
