CELTIC captain Callum McGregor has grown accustomed to toasting trebles during his trophy-laden career at Parkhead.
midfielder became the first man in the history of world football to complete a clean sweep of domestic silverware in the same season five times during the 2022/23 campaign when he captained his side to the League Cup, Premiership and Scottish Cup.
He is one of just two players who took part in that memorable double header still at Celtic – evergreen winger James Forrest also featured – but the memory of those victories remain fresh in his mind.They are giving him confidence heading into the second Champions League group game against the Serie A outfit this evening.
“We need to try and reproduce that type of performance, draw on that type of energy, especially from the crowd at home. Everyone has to play well. You need a bit of luck, you need your goalkeeper to make big saves. You just need the perfect storm really. McGregor, though, is confident that his understrength side can, with the backing of the sell-out crowd inside Parkhead, put their miserable run of results against the continent’s elite firmly behind them.“When we played Lazio before we had a great mix of youth and experience and we performed really well,” he said. “But ultimately you have to play really well in the Champions League.
“But I think we have to have that expectation. We can’t lower expectations as then performance levels will drop and you start to accept more as a group. It doesn’t matter who goes into a Celtic team. You have to reach a level. The meeting with Lazio under the floodlights promises to be another special European night in the East End of Glasgow and McGregor is looking forward to the occasion immensely.
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