Season Review 2024-25 – The Celtic Wiki

Matches: 2024 – 2025 | League Table | Statistics

Season Points

Celtic win the league & league cup double.
Brendan Rodgers manager, with John Kennedy and Gavin Strachan as his assistants. McGregor the team captain.
Season tickets sold out by end June 2024!
New Champion’s League format, Celtic automatically enter group stages for this season.
Celtic qualified for the Champions League playoffs with a game to spare.
Celtic won the league cup title on penalties (5-4) after enthralling 3-3 draw.
Celtic miss out on another treble following a penalty shoot-out in the Scottish Cup final v Aberdeen.
Celtic will be seeded for next season’s Champions League play-off after Rijeka beat Dinamo Zagreb to the Croatian title.

Trivia

Last season with plastic pitches in top flight as SPFL to ban them from next season.
Politics: UK election held day before the first pre season match which saw the Tories & SNP punted out of office in a Labour landslide.
Premier Sports TV to show 20 live top flight matches each season for next five years. 2024/25 will see most live matches broadcast to date from Scottish Premiership. Celtic opted out of this secondary broadcasting deal for with Premier Sport as amounts not great and better to keep 3pm Saturday kick offs.
Euros 2024 finished prior to season start with four Celts in the Scotland squad, but Scotland were dire.
Sevco played part of the early season at Hampden following dubious stadium renovation reasons, but even from the start it was clear that something was up financially. They then revealed a huge financial loss.
Scotland one of only 8 countries to still have two domestic cup competitions (England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Finland, Iceland, Israel, and Portugal the others).
Celtic confirmed to join Liverpool, Roma & Newcastle Utd in being added to the Elite Team Catalogue at Adidas from next season.This will mean authentic strips as well as the Adidas Trefoil logo on our third kit.
Incredible crowd sizes across various clubs following sellouts at a rejuvenated Aberdeen.
Social media: en masse migration/exodus of Celtic fans from Twitter to BlueSky in even just one week in Nov 2024. Same has been happening in many online spheres.
Opta Power stats adjudged Celtic handed easiest draw of all 36 teams BUT Young Boys, Croatia Zagreb and Club Brugge, all boast higher coefficients. Bratislava only 2.5 coefficients shy of Celtic’s total going into the campaign.
James Forrest scores for the 16th season in a row (scores at the death in the final league game of the season to keep this going).
James Forrest surpassed Lennox to become the most decorated player outright at Celtic.

Celtic Women’s team

Disappointing domestically, well out of the league and no cups.
Celtic are the first Scottish side to qualify for the Women’s Champions League group stage since it was introduced in 2020-21.
Celtic are the first Scottish Club and the only club in Scotland to have two teams concurrently in the Champions League group stages after the women’s team achievement.
Games moved to play at Douglas Park Hamilton.
Women’s Champions League: six defeats in their maiden group stage campaign and scored just one goal along the way. However, manager Sadiku – the youngest coach to date in the men’s or women’s Champions League at 31 – believes her side had grown throughout the competition.
Domestically poor, in recent years since turning professional Celtic has taken the title race to the last day every season, but this time way behind with even a number of games to go.
SFA updates its gender policy in order to ban transgender women competing in women’s football. From next season, only those born biologically female will be allowed to take part in competitive matches in the women’s game.
Pressure is on Celtic women’s team manager.
Large cull at the end of the season. Big questions being asked.

Transfers

Celtic have made est €232.5m (£197m) from player sales across the last ten seasons, according to data at Transfer market (to end-Aug 2024). €161m more than any other Scottish club. Very impressive but beyond our shores relative to peers we’ve still underperformed.
Celtic forked out circa £34m in transfer fees over 2024 – highest for any calendar year in club’s history. Yet, through judicious sales, boast a transfer-fees surplus across the period!
Scottish transfer record broken with sale of Matt O’Riley to Brighton for £30m (£25m + £5m addons).
Celtic transfer record broken with purchase of Engels for £~11m.
Hart, Haksabanovic, O’Riley, McCarthy, Oh, Vata, Kelly, Siegrist, Lawal, Kobayashi, Johnston away. Bernabei, Lagerbielke, Iwata, Murray, Kwon, Tilio and Tobi out on loan and another 5 youngsters released. To shift 23 players is incredible.
Incredibly, cash strapped TRFC (£6m net spend) estimated to have outspent Celtic (£7m net income) by £13m this transfer window when tallying up incomings and outgoings.

In (Summer):

Adam Idah (£9.5m) – Norwich City

Kasper Schmeichel (free) – Anderlecht

Paulo Bernardo (£4m) – Benfica

Viljami Sinisalo (£1.2m) – Aston Villa

Álex Valle (loan) – Barcelona

Arne Engels (£11m) – Augsburg

Auston Trusty (£6m) – Sheffield United

Luke McCowan (undisclosed) – Dundee

Out (Summer):

Joe Hart (retired)

Sead Hakšabanović (undisclosed) – Malmo

Magnus Mackenzie (free) – Queen’s Park

Rocco Vata (£237k) – Watford

Daniel Kelly (£400k) – Millwall

Oh Hyeon-gyu (undisclosed) – Genk

Benjamin Siegrist (undisclosed) – Rapid Bucharest

MacKenzie Carse (free) – Coleraine

Gustaf Lagerbielke (loan) – FC Twente

Matt O’Riley (£26m) – Brighton

Kai McLean (free) – Dunfermline Athletic

Marco Tilio (loan) – Melbourne City

Kwon Hyeok-kyu (loan) – Hibs

Yuki Kobayashi (undisclosed) – Portimonense

Bosun Lawal (£2m) – Stoke City

Mikey Johnston (undisclosed) – West Bromwich Albion
Tomoki Iwata (undisclosed) – Birmingham City

In (Winter):
Jota (est £9m) – Rennes FC
Jeffrey Schlupp (loan) – Crystal Palace

Out (Winter):
Lenny Agbaire (loan) – Ayr
Stephen Welsh (loan) K.V. Mechelen
Odin Thiago Holm (loan) – Los Angeles FC
Alexandro Bernabei (est £5m) – Interncional (Brazil)
Kyogo Furuhashi (est £10m) – Rennes FC
Luis Palma (loan & option to buy) – Olympiacos

Overview

The new season began with Celtic in buoyant mood with the squad mostly on par to last season, whilst nearest challengers Aberdeen had sold their main striker and Sevco were imploding. As the Ibrox outfit stole all the headlines as they were forced out to play at Hampden following various unconvincing reasons, the rumours about further financial trouble abounded.

For Celtic, possibly the final summer without any Champions League qualifiers gave everyone a break. The attention being on galvanising the squad, most notably signing up Idah and Bernardo whilst finalising the record sale of Matt O’Riley. Social media was as impatient as ever.

Summer Transfer window

Before even the summer transfer window had begun, the major cloud that hung over Celtic was the undeniable disaster that was the summer transfer window a year previously. With the arguable exception of Palma, not a single other transfer into Celtic during the summer had established themselves or proved themselves to the manger or the support, with the majority winning no real gametime. Quite simply the time & money was completely squandered, and Celtic were close to paying the price for this domestically.

As for this window, social media was as much a hindrance as anything else The impatience of supporters could be shouted to all corners, and repeatedly was, but that’s the case for all major clubs now, but with Celtic’s relatively fewer resources at hand, it really could frustrate. Celtic were linked with new prospects from across Europe and even America, but for a change there was no real speculation for further attempts into the Asian market, not that the door has been completely shut.

The biggest talking point centred around the inevitable move of Matt O’Riley, with various major clubs linked with him over the summer. Italian side Atlanta made repeated attempts to tempt him, but their derisory offers were swatted aside by the Celtic side. At the end he moved on for an incredible sum of £26m + addons to Brighton who were riding high in the English top tier, and we wish him well. The knock-on benefit was that it made Celtic appear more appealing to prospects who wished to emulate him.

First thing was moving on those on the periphery and the deadwood. The two most notable departures after O’Riley were Lawal & Mikey Johnston to the lower tiers in England for £2-3m each, and that’s incredible as Lawal had little ever played for Celtic! Neither was going to make it at Celtic. Plenty were moved on, even on loan, including the never played McCarthy, but the most frustrating losses were those of the youngsters Daniel Kelly and Rocco Vata to unfancied clubs down south. Granted they were not going to be automatic starters for Celtic in the coming season, but really should have bided their time and just taken loan moves down south. The continuing loss of notable talent to clubs down south had still not been abated, and for many fans, this was disheartening.

As for transfers in, it was in stark contrast to the previous season. Firstly, the key target was the purchase of loanees Idah & Bernardo, and despite some protracted negotiations, both were signed much to the relief & thanks of the support. However, whilst Bernardo was bought on a discount, Idah was bought at a heavy premium, and he did still have his doubters, but at least Celtic could say that at least they hadn’t gone backwards.

The major new transfers came at the death of the window, exasperating the obsessive social media followers hounding for any gossip on Celtic transfers. However there is no denying on paper the quality of those brought in, including Schmeichel (on a free), Valle (on loan from Barcelona) and central defender Trusty, but the real tentpole signing was that of Engels. Young and highly rated, he was bought for Celtic record of £11m, which bowled many supporters over after all the grumbling about tight fisted board members. One infamous social media video went viral of some irate supporter cornering Celtic Chairman Peter Lawell to give his piece on Celtic’s frugal financial management, but after years of projects and prospects, the support grew Engels like more of a blue ribbon purchase. Possibly a greater risk taking attitude going forward?

Upfront, seen as a relatively better window in the general view of many.

Start of the season

Celtic had a fast start out of the traps, and with Sevco & the Edinburgh sides unconvincing anyone of their chances, you’d struggle to find any sensible soul who didn’t think Celtic were certs for the league title. If anything, the nauseating (and unwelcome) discussions were more over how many of the domestic titles that Celtic would collect this season, a notable point for some who crudely tallied up titles. The surprise package was to be Aberdeen even though they’d just sold on their talisman Miovski.

Early performances saw Celtic keep clean sheets and score convincing wins to get everything off the ground. Kuhn in particular came on like as if a whole new player and made incredible contributions. Celtic swept aside Hibs, Kilmarnock and St Mirren in the league. Kyogo had a mixed start but goals were coming from across the side.

A surprising boon was a record equalling clean sheet start to the league season for new keeper Schmeichel, but really as the defeat to Dortmund in Europe showed, the defence still had a lot of work needing done to it.

Possibly the first notable marker in the league campaign was the early meeting with Sevco. There really was only one team in the match, as Celtic smashed Sevco 3-0 but the gap should have been even wider. Sevco clearly didn’t have the squad to compete at this stage and their manager was cutoff from his own players. For Rodgers it was a vindication of his methods and style at least domestically.

Surprisingly, the first real on field challenge of the season domestically came against second tier Falkirk in the League Cup. Falkirk actually took the lead to half-time, and it took a big fightback from Celtic in the second half to fully turn it all around. It was a warning sign and reminder against complacency.

The real crux in the first round of league games actually came against Aberdeen, with both sides starting the match with a 100 per cent record. In what turned out to be an enthralling game, Celtic squandered a two goal lead for the the match to end 2-2, but also some close calls for both sides. It was quite a filip for the Scottish game, and welcome too. It was a classic match, and boosted crowds in Scotland.

The major surprise of the first tranche of games was the near collapse of Sevco. When Aberdeen defeated Sevco in October 2024, it set a new mark that undeniably there was a title race but between Celtic and Aberdeen. Sevco were 9pts behind, and their chances were disappearing fast. Their financial predicament was laid bare with an eye boggling £17m loss in the previous season with little squad improvement. The Edinburgh sides were little better, propping up the bottom of the table, and becoming punch bags for all the other teams.

Once Aberdeen finally slipped (and badly) in November, it provided Celtic some respite and a gap. A 5-0 victory v Ross County in which Celtic played a number of reserve/second string players demonstrated the challenge was likely too demanding for Aberdeen’s smaller squad and the rest of the league. When the two sides met faced each other for what was once deemed a potential league decider, Celtic had now a decent gap with a game in hand to Aberdeen, and despite an uninspiring 1-0 victory by Celtic (late goal by Hatate), then without any intention of arrogance or hubris, it was safe to opine that the league title challenge to Celtic was really over. Long way to go but still.

The League Cup run was probably the most dramatic yet experienced by Celtic. Following the aforementioned dramatic Falkirk victory, Celtic faced a then on form Aberdeen side yet Celtic cuffed then 6-0 having taken charge from early on. The final against TheRangers was expected to be a challenge, but nobody could have scripted what transpired as Celtic won 5-4 on penalties after a dramatic 3-3 draw over 120 minutes. Mistakes and luck accounted for most of the goals but Kuhn & Engels linked up together for a superb third for Celtic. When Celtic scored the winning penalty, it sent the support into rapture after a crazy afternoon which saw Celtic go behind and then lose the lead twice. Post match it was ruled that VAR erred in not awarding Sevco a penalty in what was a marginal decision. Celtic still lifted the cup after what was possibly the most enthralling league cup title run by Celtic ever. Now once again all the trophies were sitting in the trophy cabinet at Celtic Park.

To round off the calendar year there were two notable matches to resolve, firstly the League Cup final and then the Ne’er Day Derby match (played actually on Jan 2nd) both against TheRangers who had admittedly returned to some kind of form. Celtic won all the matches to the turn of the year, so to begin the Ne’er with a hoped for away victory over TheRangers to further demonstrate Celtic’s current strength.

Post-Ne’er

The New Year didn’t excactly begin as expected. It could be argued that TheRangers had already surrendered the league title the week before the New Year derby game when they lost to St Mirren away 2-1, and many were dubbing the meet-up as the “The Dead Rubber Derby“. It turned into a shock 3-0 away defeat for Celtic, with the players (excluding Carter-Vickers) off-form on the day. It was a big wake up call even for Rodgers. Celtic still were 11 pts in front with a massive goal difference advantage, but there was a hit to the perceived strength of the Celtic side. Showed certain changes were needed with certain players needing a pickup in form. It also ended hopes for another Invincibles season as once appeared possible.

Despite that, the league title challenge effectively ended within a week with Sevco dropping 4pts with two draws in the next two games, leaving Celtic 15pts ahead, and left the media raging whilst every Celt celebrated!

One key crux point was after the following 3-0 win v St Mirren (Jan 2025) which brought Celtic back on track. Uncharacteristically, Rodgers was highly critical of sections of the support for lack of patience and what he perceived was some disrespect to Greg Taylor. It can be seen in two ways, firstly reflecting some frustration that he had kept to himself after some criticism of some recent below par performances but also maybe the pressure was getting to him.

In any case, Celtic did return to some kind of form, with some comfortably wins as the side geared up to the crucial final European Cup matches, qualifying by the skin of their teeth. Domestically, intially there was no impact with some fine wins including a 4-1 win v Ross County which finally saw Johnny Kenny win his debut. The only hiccup was a 3-3 draw away to bottom side Dundee, a game in which Celtic should have killed off early, but with due credit to Dundee they took advantage to come back to share the points, with Celtic saved by a late unarguable penalty. Celtic though got their “revenge” with a comfortably 6-0 hammering against the same side only a couple of weeks later. Celtic were generally in cruise mode to around this point, with goals coming easily and comfortably league points gap to support any dips in form.

However, After the end of the European campaign, motivation seemed to have dried up from some players which was disappointing, starkly reflected by a 2-1 defeat (Feb 2025) to an admittedly resurgent Hibernian who were to shock everyone with an incredible turnaround in the season. With Sevco also defeated that same weekend, it meant no damage but maybe these hits were needed to get players to recover some motivation. Celtic struggled on the day, and these days & matches are always going to happen in some season.

Celtic were supported by that Sevco were in freefall under their manager Clements who seemed to continue to hang on in when really he should have been papped out. When Celtic won 5-2 away to St Mirren (March), Celtic were to stretch their league pts gap tally to 16pts which effectively ended any lingering hopes that any delusional Sevco fans had of closing the gap. The generally underfire Yang grabbing a double on the day to give him the due praise he deserved and a confidence boost in a match described by Rodgers as “One of my favourite wins of the season”.

Celtic were already league champions in all but name now, and the players & manager deserved all the respect in the world.

Final quarter of the season and the lifting of the title.

The post-split was really now just the countdown to the title as Celtic were so far in front due to the Sevco collpase, with many eyes really towards Hibernian and their incredible recover over the season. Some sections of the support opined that the side were not giving 100% commitment, but that can be countered by the way Celtic swatted sides away, with only a 1-1 away draw to Sevco being a bit of a dampener. It meant that stand-in manager Barry Ferguson was to end his time at Sevco without any defeats as a manager to Celtic, which was quite surprising taking in how poor they were against all else.

Celtic sealed the title with an emphatic 5-0 demolition v Dundee Utd, the first match after the passing of Pope Francis and respected Celtic historian Tom Campbell (RIP). The match finally saw the return to form of some players most notably Kuhn, and the celebrations in the stands were through the roof. The remaining game were stop-start, with a 1-1 draw with Sevco and a final day 1-1 draw with St Mirren, being under-par performances but Celtic at least remained undefeated. The only frustrating point was the ever-present Hatate coming off injured v Aberdeen who would thus miss the last few games of the season.

The league title victory was all that really mattered really. The celebrations were high, albeit the board stopped the Green Brigade from doing their own organised TIFO. After an exhausting season, it was great to win another title, and for Brendan Rodgers it was great pride. He was the architect again, and despite still room for improvements in areas for the team, it was another great season, but only thing left was the seal the treble with the upcoming Scottish final v Aberdeen.

Scottish Cup

Having sealed the league & the league cup, with progress in Europe achieved too, Brendan Rodgers had only one final challenge to overcome in order to regain the mantle he had earned in his forum tenor at Celtic: winning the treble. So only the Scottish Cup stood before him & regaining that crown. Most were saying it wasn’t key, and that’s true, but to achieve it again was clearly important to Rodgers. The league was all that mattered in a professional sense, but in a football sense for Celtic, there was a kudos to regaining the treble. In some ways, we’d be spoiled over the past decade with trebles, but each still meant something.

The run began with a hard fought victory over Kilmarnock (2-1 win January 2025) , which came during a period of a dip in form. Cup football is just about getting to the next round until the final, but this was a challenge of a game, with a late goal by Maeda helping Celtic through. The following match was a routine shellacking of lower tier Raith Rovers 5-1 (Feb 2025). Despite a mostly reserve side, Maeda played and again was the hero, with a hat-trick that make this an easy afternoon.

A resurgent Hibs in the quarter-finals turned out to be little of a challenge, despite them having defeated Celtic only two weeks earlier, with Celtic getting their own backs with a 2-0 win (Mar 2025), with again Maeda leading the charge. Relegation bound St Johnstone were no match in the semi-finals in a victory (Apr 2025), and Maeda grabbed two goals.

It was really his competition this season so far.

The final with Aberdeen was much anticipated. Admittedly, Aberdeen had hit the heights in the first half of the season only to slump badly in the second half of the season, with Celtic having defeated them only ten days earlier 5-1 away in the league.

However, in the final, a tired & exhausted Celtic struggled, and it was a tough one to end the season on this anti-climax with a comprehensive defeat on penalties, albeit if were to lose to anyone then Aberdeen this season deserved it more than anyone else. An admittedly, awful match with an Aberdeen side set out to play very negatively whilst the Celtic players appeared to not even have turned up on the day, it was jokingly referrred to as the worse Cup final since Wednesday (the equally dire UEFA Cup final won by Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs). So many looked fatigued (esp Maeda), but really cynics said a few had their eye on a move anyhow this summer (something they might regret).

So Celtic lost out on the treble, which was more disappointing but not actually frustrating.

Overall, it had been a great season, and maybe Celtic needed another wake-up call to avoid complacency. Changes are expected this summer, but that should be NOT just in the squad but also across tactics, coaching & related areas. The Champions League qualifers were to be soon enough.

Celtic had another fabulous season with some great progress. Much to be proud of, and the growth in silverware at Celtic continued.

Europe

Celtic entered straight into the newly reset Champions League group stage format with great hope & optimism. Something that was feared could be the last opportunity for a while with the recent decline in Scottish Clubs in Europe. However, Celtic always did better when working off our own backs, but no denying that this automatic entry was in part due to the points gathered with Sevco’s uefa cup runs in recent seasons.

Now facing teams in single matches with some home & then away, there was an expectation that this could help Celtic, but various critics (as such the much respected journalist Jonathan Wilson) opined that the new format still benefitted the mega clubs and was mostly removing the jeopardy element. Time would tell, but this time round Celtic definitely got the rub of the green with the set of fixtures drawn.

The group stages started very positively, with an incredible 5-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava in front of an amazing atmosphere at Celtic Park. This was Celtic’s best result in the group stages to date, and broke various ceilings for Celtic, so putting to bed certain fears. The greatest part was that there were excellent performances across the team, with Liam Scales stealing the headlines in Europe. For once, Celtic hit the heights and proved they deserved to be there, and hopes were high for the remainder of the group matches.

However, the campaign hit a brick wall at full speed in the humiliating hammering by Borussia Dortmund 7-1 away, and the scoreline could have been worse. Admittedly, Celtic went into the match on a high and many were expecting even a victory, which with hindsight looks unbelievable now. Borussia Dortmund were the Champions League finalists last season, so were not exactly an easy pushover, but they had an indifferent start to the season, so Celtic should have been able to compete. Many pinned the blame on Rodgers, but he batted those comments back opining: “What do we do? Sit back and have 15% of the ball and probably lose 3-0 or 4-0? I’d much rather go down with my own vision”. So many performed poorly on the night.

Atalanta game was key as came after Aberdeen 2-2 result which shook everyone up. As the UEFA Cup holders, Atalanta was going be a tough ask with admittedly no hope given to Celtic (a Dortmund style drubbing was expected by all). After some choice words pre match to raise morale, an unexpected 0-0 away result amazed everyone even with CCV out. It was the best away performance under Rodgers in his career to date, and he deserved all the plaudits. The change in tactics at least proved that Celtic could heavily adjust in Europe. The central defence was rock solid in an unforgiving game. At least it brought Celtic from the brink of disaster in this new format with hope renewed to at least qualify for the interim stage.

The match that turned everything on its head was the 3-1 home victory v Leipzig (Nov 2024) which was the best performance by Celtic in Europe for over a decade. Despite going behind, the side regrouped with Kuhn scoring two sublime goals as Celtic for the first time in years dominated a far higher rated side. Some even spoke too optimistically about reaching top 8 spots!

Celtic did struggle to carry that form into the 1-1 draw with en par Club Brugge, but in what was an ultra competitive league, any point was valuable. There were even clubs like Real Madrid struggling. Against Club Brugge, Celtic struggled to take control with the Belgians often the better side, but still kept in it. A well drilled opposition nullified Celtic’s key players, leading to a clumsy own goal that gifted Club Brugge their only goal (with VAR thankfully cancelling their other goal due to offside). Maeda saved the day for Celtic with an equaliser but the match was another warning.

Now down to 20th, there was little room for error left now, but as things stood Celtic only really needed to earn 1pt from the last three matches to realistically confirm qualification to the playoffs. It was thought to have been achieved at the first time of asking away in a drab no goals draw v an underpar Dynamo Zagreb side. The opposition was there for the taking in this game, but the disaster v Dortmund definitely has had a lingering impact on Celtic away in Europe. The hesitancy in part stems from insecurity after that Dortmund result.

However, as other scorelines transpired, Celtic did end up needing at least one more point (or really one more victory). With the next match being against Young Boys of Berne who had so far failed miserably in this campaign with no victories to date, it gave Celtic hope as undeniable favourites at Celtic Park (not a position that has often sat well with the team in the Champions League).

A final group match v Aston Villa, was to be mostly a formality. Both sides qualified for the playoffs but the match wasn’t strictly a dead rubber as wanted a win to make the top 8 (Villa) or just to push up to make the seeded playoff spots (Celtic). In truth, few Celtic fans were optimistic ahead of the match to get anything out of this one. In any case, Aston Villa won 4-2 after Celtic had fought back, with Idah leading the charge with two goals. Celtic end up 21st in the new group format, and arguements could be made back & forth on if this was progress or not. At the end of the day, Celtic qualified out the group stages, and that’s all that matterred.

Biggest take away from this group stage has been the development of our mentality. Rodgers first tenure, that Dortmund away result leads to further heavy defeats.

Bayern Munich were opponents for the Champions League play-offs, and despite worries of a trouncing, Celtic came out of the matches with much pride intact. Despite going down 2-1 in the away leg, Maeda’s goal kept Celtic in the running. Kuhn scored after just 45 seconds to send the Celtic support into raptures BUT the goal was ruled out with Idah interfering.

However, the second leg was where Celtic were to make a name for themselves. Celtic were leading until the last few seconds of the match when Bayern grabbed a fortuitous equaliser that took them through. No serious person really believed we had any hope of anything away, yet so came to close with Kuhn grabbing the goal, an interesting irony for Bayern as he is a former player whom them didn’t give a first team chance to. A draw away from home against a tier one Bayern Munich side, and to lose so so narrowly in the tie, is huge sign of how far we had come. Brendan Rodgers and the rest of the squad deserve respect. Gutting and incredible. We deserved the chance to go through to ET, but that’s football for you. To go from a 7-1 hammerring away to Dortmund to this result showed massive progress.