Brendan Rodgers has vowed there will be no repeat of Celtic’s ‘passive’ Champions League start when Manchester City visit Parkhead on Wednesday.
Stung by the 7-0 defeat to Barcelona on night one, the manager insists his players will react by tackling City with an aggression that was missing in the Nou Camp.
With a perfect record from their opening six matches, City top the English Premier League and also crushed Borussia Monchengladbach 4-0 24 hours after Celtic’s harsh lesson in Catalonia.
Nevertheless, Rodgers wants his players to tap into the energy created by a capacity Celtic Park crowd and take the game to Pep Guardiola’s team.
He said: ‘We’re coming across a real machine that has started the season very well but we are at home. We’ll look to learn from our last experience and certainly we won’t be as passive.
‘No matter how good we think we are, we can’t go and match Barcelona in football terms in the Nou Camp. But I think we had only three fouls in the game.
‘City will be similar to Barcelona, not as fine-tuned of course, but certainly they have a level of player that is right up there with the best in Europe.