The Official UEFA Champions League Podcast delivers ‘enormous’ praise for Celtic

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Celtic have been on the end of some great plaudits after their Champions League result against Bayern Munich.

Although Bayern knocked Celtic out of the competition, the Scottish champions held their own against one of European football’s powerhouses.

Celtic ran the Bundesliga giants close in both legs of the Champions League playoffs but, in truth, the Bhoys’ performance in the Allianz Arena was just the tip of the iceberg in an exciting campaign in UEFA’s elite competition.

And it seems that Celtic’s contribution has not gone unnoticed by the Europan governing body.

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UEFA label Celtic as ‘one of the greatest successes’ of the Champions League

Mike Schultz was speaking on UEFA’s podcast about Celtic’s endeavours in the elite competition as he lavished praise on Brendan Rodgers’ side.

Schultz said on the Official UEFA Champions League Podcast [29m], “I think that’s been one of the great successes of this new format, actually.

“That you’ve seen a team like Celtic, it’s an enormous football club, of course it is. But in the last few years, they’ve struggled a bit at this level or in the Europa League.

“And actually, because they’ve had a few more games to get into it, they’ve had some home games to really get some points on the board, they’ve really grown into the competition.

“And I think we’ve seen Celtic do well, we mentioned Feyenoord, mentioned PSV, Club Brugge, it’s great to see teams that would get so far and maybe not further, now really have a great run.”

Celtic’s full list of results in this season’s Champions League

Rodgers has created so many positive memories for the Hoops fans as the Celtic manager reestablished the Parkhead club’s European credibility this season.

So with that in mind, 67 Hail Hail takes a wee trip down memory lane as we list every Celtic result in the Champions League this season.

• Celtic 5 v 1 Slovan Bratislava
• Borussia Dortmund 7 v 1 Celtic
• Atalanta 0 v 0 Celtic
• Celtic 3 v 1 RB Leipzig

• Celtic 1 v 1 Club Brugge
• Dinamo Zagreb 1 v 1 Celtic
• Celtic 1 v 0 Young Boys
• Aston Villa 4 v 2 Celtic
• Celtic 1 v 2 Bayern Munich
• Bayern Munich 1 v 1 Celtic