Brendan Rodgers on full alert over ‘pointless’ opponents

Brendan Rodgers isn’t fooled by RB Leipzig’s place in the Champions League, sitting at the bottom of the table with Slovan Bratislava, YB Berne, Sturm Graz and Salzburg but far from pointless.

The new look format has been cruel on Tuesday’s Celtic Park visitors, not many teams would fancy their chances of taking points from Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Liverpool.

Regardless of how the fixtures have rolled out Leipzig really have to take something from their visit to Glasgow, preferably three points to be in with a genuine chance of advancing in the competition,

Leipzig don’t have the reputation and history of the traditional European heavyweights but are among the top seeds in this season’s competiton fr a reason.

After trips to Dortmund and Atalanta Rodgers is preparing his players for another top level test knowing that only top form for 90 plus minutes will secure a favourable result.

They’ve had tough games, they’ll obviously be disappointed with the Juve game where they were at home and they lost a man and lost the game. Of course, you come into this fourth game then they’ll be obviously desperate to get points on the board. But thankfully we are too and that should mean for a really, really fantastic game.

Leipzig boss Marco Rose guided Leipzig to victory at Celtic Park two years ago with Rodgers knowing that he has a top level operator in the away dug out.

I know how Marc Rose’s teams will play, I know what the Red Bull philosophy is. You know they want to press, you know they want to be aggressive, you know they’re going to have physicality in the game and you also see what they’re doing back in the Bundesliga to tell they’re a top, top side.