A special Champions League night is in stock in the first leg of your play-off on Wednesday in the first stage of your play-off.
Celtic celebrated a long-awaited return to the KO-phase of this competition by defeating 7 against boys 1-0 on matchday 7, but a subsequent 4-2 defeat in Aston Villa provided her for an almighty draw in the play-offs .
Brendan Rodgers’ side has dominated in Germany and has exposed to little competition from Rangers for her Scottish Premiership crown.
The Celtic Park welcomes the arrival of a European European giant on Wednesday when Bayern Munich comes to town. Vincent Company’s team seems ready to regain her Bundesliga crown of Bayer Leverkusen with Xabi Alonso’s historians who are not surprisingly striving to reproduce the ridiculous achievements of last season. They are eight points in front of the champions on the summit.
In Europe, however, there were other questions for Bavaria, since the defeat of the league phase ended in three of their four away games, which meant that the six-time winners were not automatically qualified for the 16th round.
Here is 90 minutes Instructions for Celtic against Bayern Munich in the play-offs of the Champions League.
Celtic against Bayern Munich head-to-head record (all games)
Current form (all competitions)
Celtic | Bayern Munich |
|---|---|
Celtic 5-0 Raith Rovers – 08/02/25 | Bayern Munich 3-0 Werder Bremen – 07/02/25 |
Celtic 6-0 Dundee – 05/02/25 | Bayern Munich 4-3 Holstein Kiel – 01/02/25 |
Motherwell 1-3 Celtic – 02/02/25 | Bayern Munich 3-1 Slovan Bratislava – 29/01/25 |
Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic – 29/01/25 | Freiburg 1-2 Bayern Munich – 25/01/25 |
Celtic 1-0 boys – 22/01/25 | Feyenoord 3-0 Bayern Munich – 22/01/25 |
country | TV channel/live stream |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | Discovery+, Discovery+ App, TNT Sports 2 |
United States | Paramount+ |
Canada | Dazn Canada |
After Kyogo Furuhashi leaves to Rennes in January, Adam Idah has recently burdened a large part of the Celtics Torlast. The striker has scored four goals in three games and is a certainty to return to Rodgers’ Xi after a break at the weekend.
The Celtic boss made the 5-0 win on Saturday against Raith Rovers in wholesale in the Scottish Cup.
Daizen Maeda scored three points at the weekend, but he was only used for his Champions League lock. The striker was sent against boys on the 7th matchday of the league phase. The returning Japan is to replace Japan International.
James Forrest will miss a foot injury, while Paulo Bernardo undoubtedly achieved a knock on weekends.
Celtic forecast a line-up against Bavaria (4-3-3): Schmeichel; Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Taylor; Engels, McGregor, Hatate; Kuhn, Idah, Yang.
There was no large rotation from Kompany for the 3-0 victory of Bavaria over Werder Bremen, but visitors had enough time on Wednesday to rest because they played on Friday evening.
Therefore, we shouldn’t see many – if at all – changes from this XI.
Joao Palhinha did not play so much during his debut campaign and is doubtful due to illness. Serge Gnabry was also under the weather on Friday, but Kompany has Michael Olise and Kingsley Coman in reserve.
Alphonso Davies maintains a thigh injury after recently writing a contract extension in Munich in the middle of his future.
Bavaria forecasting against Celtic (4-2-3-1): Newer; Laimer, Upamecano, Kim, Guerreiro; Kimmich, Pavlovic; Olise, Musiala, Coman; Cane
Celtic’s form in front of their own fans helped them in the play-offs, but their three home wins came against teams that were not completed in the top 24. Bavaria represent a considerable step in quality, but this is a team with a soft lower abdomen.
If Celtic can survive the storms that come in their way and affect the atmosphere in Glasgow, you have the chance to secure a result. The weaknesses of the Bavaria against counterattacks were removed during the league phase in Feyenoord and Aston Villa. Even Slovan Bratislava was successful last month.
Bavaria are the understandable favorites, but they can be tied up in enemy environments. The hosts have a chance.