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Celtic have been in Champions League action this week
Celtic drew 1-1 at home to Club Brugge at Celtic Park on Wednesday night. They fell behind in the game after defender Cameron Carter-Vickers scored an own goal in the first-half.
The Hoops fought back after the interval and levelled things up in the second-half through forward Daizen Maeda. They then picked up a point in the end and are now sat in 20th place out of 36 in the Champions League table and have three more games to play in the competition. As per Transfermarkt, here is a look at how Celtic are comparing compared to their rivals like Liverpool and Aston Villa in performance vs squad value....
Most overperforming clubs in the Champions League
Actual position vs squad value
1. Brest +19 difference
2. Lille +12
3. Dortmund +11
4. Atalanta +11
5. Monaco +10
6. Zagreb +10
7. Celtic +9
8. Sporting Lisbon +7
9. Benfica +6
10. Brugge +6
11. Liverpool +5
12. Inter +5
13. Leverkusen +5
14. Sturm Graz +5
15. Sparta Prague +5
16. Barcelona +2
17. Aston Villa +1
18. Feyenoord +1
Next up in the Champions League for Celtic is an away trip to Dynamo Zagreb on 10th December. They then face Young Boys and Aston Villa in early 2025 as they look to progress into the next stage.
They are back in action this weekend with a Scottish Premiership fixture against Ross County as they look to keep their momentum going. They are unbeaten so far this season in the league and are two points above Aberdeen at the summit.
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‘Still on track’...
Speaking after their clash against Club Brugge, Brendan Rodgers said: “It wasn’t so good in the first half. Too passive, not enough belief with the ball, and in the second half it was much more like it.
“In the first half, we weren’t there. Not enough intensity, not enough hard running to get the ball, and when you do that against good teams at this level they’ll play through you and that’s exactly what they done, too often. In the second half I thought we were the much better team.
“They’re a man-marking team so you have to work them and move them, and we did that so well for the goal. It was a brilliant goal from Daizen and from there it looked like we could go and win the game. We’ll take the point having wasted 45 minutes really. We played much better in the second half and deserved that equaliser. There’s three more games to go, nine points to play for and still on track for where we want to get to.”
He added: “I’ve been in enough of these games here where a good European team like that score late on. We’ve all been here and it’s a big disappointment. But I didn’t feel that. I felt that once we got the goal, once we played our game, once we were much more aggressive, we looked like the team that could go on and score. I just had that feeling that it was going to come.”
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