Kasper Schmeichel knows exactly what Celtic need to do to progress in Europe, as he told Celtic fan media last week.
Speaking at Celtic Park on Thursday, he said: “European football is a different animal. You come up against so many different types of football that I think it’s really important to be able to adapt. If you’re playing against certain types of teams, then you need to be able to try and impose your style, your will on them.
“If that’s not possible, then you have to be able to adapt, you have to be able to survive. If that’s staying in a lower block and using counter-attacks, I mean, we won a Premier League title doing that at Leicester.”
The experienced goalkeeper believes that Brendan Rodgers is a top coach who will be able to adapt his play in order to help the Celts out when needed.
“He’s one of those coaches who is clever enough and astute enough to know and adapt small things to whatever personnel he has available to him,” Schmeichel explained. “I think any manager has to also be able to not be too stringent with how they want to do things. They have to be able to see if the players available to you are able to do those things.”
Schmeichel added that there’s no “right or wrong way” of playing in the Champions League but that Celtic need to take chances to score when they’re presented with them.
He added: “We have to be able to keep and maintain the ball and when we lose it, we have to keep that intensity.”
Rodgers seems eager for his Celtic side to progress to the next phase of the Champions League this season. European knockout football could be on the cards if the Scottish champions play their cards right…
Jessica Elliott
