Brendan Rodgers takes encouragement from Celtic's improvement in the Champions League as they visit Atletico Madrid at the halfway stage.
Celtic sit bottom of Group E with three games to play, having picked up their only point in a breathless 2-2 draw with the Spaniards in Glasgow."We've played well in the three games and the level of performance has been better with each game," said Rodgers."We want to keep that going and see if we can take more points out of the next three games.
"For us, flexibility is important," he said. "We always want to be an aggressive team that looks to play the way we want to play, impose our style, but we know we will have to defend well against a very good side." Having been rested for Saturday's 3-0 victory at Ross County, Matt O'Riley is sure to return to the starting line-up leaving David Turnbull or Paulo Bernardo to fill in for Hatate.Netherlands forward Memphis Depay is missing for Atletico, Samuel Lino has been out with a knee injury since mid-October, and Thomas Lemar is a long-term absentee.Choose your starting XI. It's up to you how to approach it - you could go for the team you WANT the manager to pick or the one you THINK he will.
Alvaro Morata, on target in Glasgow, found the net in both of those games taking his club tally for the season to 10. Atletico Madrid have avoided defeat in their first three UEFA Champions League games in a single season for the first time since 2019-20 , while they last remained unbeaten in their first four to a campaign in 2016-17 .
Atletico Madrid are unbeaten in their last six home games in the UEFA Champions League , with their last home defeat coming against Milan in November 2021. Indeed, they've only lost three of their 23 overall matches in the competition at the Cívitas Metropolitano .
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