BRENDAN RODGERS will take charge of Celtic for the 43rd time in European competition against Feyenoord in Rotterdam this evening.
This season’s Champions League adventure will kick off with the Group E encounter in the De Kuip Stadium with games against Atletico Madrid and Lazio before the turn of the year.
Results and performances in the previous 42 matches in this arena have been a mixture of exhilarating and embarrassing.
THAT WINNING FEELING…Callum McGregor celebrates his spectacular goal against Zenit St Petersburg.
There have been the rousing six-goal thriller in the dramatic deadlock with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City All-Stars at Parkhead and the victory over Roberto Mancini’s big-spending Zenit St Petersburg when Callum McGregor rifled in a memorable goal.
Alas, there have been seven-goal hammerings in Barcelona and Paris plus a 5-0 nosedive against PSG in Glasgow. The loss in Gibraltar is still a perplexing statistic.
Rodgers has guided the Hoops to 16 wins and eight draws while losing 18 of the clashes.
SEASON 2016/17
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Second qualifying round
Lincoln Red Imps 1 CELTIC 0
CELTIC 3 Lincoln Red Imps 0 (Agg: 3-1)
Lustig, Griffiths, Roberts
Third qualifying round
Astana 1 CELTIC 1
Griffiths
CELTIC 2 Astana 1 (Agg: 3-2)
Griffiths (pen), Dembele (pen)
Play-Off Round
CELTIC 5 Hapoel Be’er Sheva 2
Rogic, Griffiths (2), Dembele, Brown
Hapoel Be’er Sheva 2 CELTIC 0 (Agg: 5-4)
GROUP STAGES
Barcelona 7 CELTIC 0
CELTIC 0 Barcelona 2
CELTIC 3 Manchester City 3
Dembele (2), Sterling (og)
Manchester City 1 CELTIC 1
Roberts
CELTIC 0 Borussia Monchengladbach 2
Borussia Monchengladbach 1 CELTIC 1
Dembele (pen)
SEASON 2017/18
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Second qualifying round
Linfield 0 CELTIC 2
Haughney (og), Rogic
CELTIC 4 Linfield 0 (Agg: 4-2)
Sinclair (2), Rogic, Armstrong
Third qualifying round
CELTIC 0 Rosenborg 0
Rosenborg 0 CELTIC 1 (Agg: 1-0)
Forrest
Play-Off Round
CELTIC 5 Astana 0
Postnikov (og), Sinclair (2), Forrest, Shitov (og)
Astana 4 CELTIC 3 (Agg: 8-4)
Sinclair, Ntcham, Griffiths
GROUP STAGES
CELTIC 0 PSG 5
PSG 7 CELTIC 1
Dembele
Bayern Munich 3 CELTIC 0
CELTIC 1 Bayern Munich 2
McGregor
Anderlecht 0 CELTIC 3
Griffiths, Roberts, Sinclair
CELTIC 0 Anderlecht 1
EUROPA LEAGUE LAST 32
CELTIC 1 Zenit St Petersburg 0
McGregor
Zenit St Petersburg 3 CELTIC 0 (Agg: 1-3)
SEASON 2018/19
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
First qualifying round
Alashkert 0 CELTIC 3
Edouard, Forrest, McGregor
CELTIC 3 Alashkert 0 (Agg: 6-0)
Dembele 2 (1pen), Forrest
Second qualifying round
CELTIC 3 Rosenborg 1
Edouard 2, Ntcham
Rosenborg 0 CELTIC 0 (Agg: 3-1)
Third qualifying round
CELTIC 1 AEK Athens 1
McGregor
AEK Athens 2 CELTIC 1 (Agg: 2-3)
Sinclair
EUROPA LEAGUE PLAY-OFF
FK Sudova 1 CELTIC 1
Ntcham
CELTIC 3 FK Sudova 0 (Agg: 4-1)
Griffiths, McGregor, Ajer
GROUP STAGES
CELTIC 1 Rosenborg 0
Griffiths
Rosenborg 0 CELTIC 1
Sinclair
RB Salzburg 2 CELTIC 0
CELTIC 1 RB Salzburg 2
Ntcham
RB Leipzig 2 CELTIC 0
CELTIC 2 RB Leipzig 1
Tierney, Edouard
ROUND OF 32
CELTIC 0 Valencia 2
Valencia 1 CELTIC 0 (Agg: 0-3)
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