Respected French publisher France Football has summed up tomorrow’s Europa League clash as: ‘Celtic Glasgow-Rennes: two teams that go wrong’.
Rennes are having as little fun domestically as Celtic and arrive in Glasgow on the back of a 1-0 defeat away to Toulouse that leaves them in sixth place in the championship.
Looking forward to tomorrow night’s match France Football opens up on friendly terms understating: “It’s going very badly for the Celts. The race for first place seems permanently lost after yet another poor performance against Saturday: a 0-0 draw at home to Hibernian of Edinburgh, 9th modest Scottish championship on 12, it is the level of catastrophic Celtic.
“The players were described as dull by the Scottish press and Neil Lennon, the coach said that “they (the players) have let us down, my staff and myself during the match.” It is true that, obviously, the old central midfielder of Hoops is an ejection seat.3rd, 12 points of hated enemies, the Rangers, but also 3-point club Motherwell, the situation could be better for a title contender.
“But what bothers 0-0 especially as the Bhoys had beaten their opponents on Saturday … last Wednesday, on the score of 4-1 in the League Cup! The brave Neil Lennon is already close to the club Leicester City, English second division club, who recently sacked Sven Goran Erikson, former England coach, but nothing is done. In any case, if the results against Rennes against Motherwell on Thursday and are not good, it will be removed from office.
“Warning, this is not because the Celtic Rennes that is in trouble will be able to get the first victory in its history in the group stage of the Europa League. First, is the fourth consecutive trip to the red and black, what is more this time in a stage of Celtic Park which will be boiling hot. Indeed, the winner of the match can continue to dream of qualifying for the next round and the loser will be eliminated in logic.
“And if there is a tie, it would be the royal road to Udinese Calcio and Atletico Madrid will compete in the Spanish capital. Victory therefore imperative, and Neil Lennon has many European spirit inspire his players, who was the club’s history.
“In addition, when you hear the statements of Joe Ledley, we can afford to say that the motivation of the Celtic players will be higher than that of Rennes as they have saved many of their head coach ( “It’s a great coach and we all want to win games and trophies for him.”). Statistics show us otherwise.
“Facing a team that is still low, Frederic Antonetti has decided to take 23 players in Scotland. And, surprise, Kana-Biyik, yet wounded Sunday, Kembo, hurt too (“He will not play until the truce” said Antonetti) and especially Apam, who knows his first selection of the group Rennes are called ( Similarly Foulquier and Sane), while Dalmat stay at home for no apparent reason (still hurt?). But given the large number of players in the group, we can say that the three men will take place in the stands Thursday. For this last chance to journey to Europe this year.”
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