Celtic crash back down to earth in Champions League with 7-1 loss at Dortmund

Brendan Rodgers’ aspect had gained their earlier 17 matches and scored 33 targets this season earlier than arriving at Sign Iduna Park in assured temper, contemporary from a 6-0 win over St Johnstone on Saturday and a 5-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava of their Champions League opener.

However they discovered the step up in school an excessive amount of to deal with as they have been overrun by final 12 months’s runners-up, not helped by the absence of centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers and a few slack passing all through their workforce.

Celtic have been briefly degree when Daizen Maeda cancelled out Emre Can’s early penalty however Karim Adeyemi bagged a first-half hat-trick and Serhou Guirassy additionally scored from the spot earlier than the interval.

Guirassy and Felix Nmecha piled on the distress within the second half as Rodgers discovered himself presiding over one other Champions League thrashing.

Celtic’s heaviest European defeat stays a 7-0 loss in Barcelona throughout Rodgers’ first spell in cost and he additionally suffered a 7-1 defeat in opposition to Paris St Germain and a 6-0 loss to Atletico Madrid.

The warning indicators have been evident from early on when Adeyemi had quite a few choices however couldn’t discover a go or shot, and Can supplied the opener within the seventh minute after Kasper Schmeichel introduced down Jamie Gittens after the England Below-21 winger had burst past Celtic’s again 4.

Celtic have been degree inside two minutes when Maeda bundled dwelling Arne Engels’ cross however Dortmund regained the lead in the identical timescale. Guirassy’s flick to the unmarked Julian Brandt left the Celtic again line susceptible and Adeyemi ran on to the by means of ball and fired the ball excessive into the web off the foot of Auston Trusty.

Schmeichel made two respectable stops to maintain Celtic in it and the Hoops had a let-off when Pascal Gross opted to go as a substitute of taking pictures.

Maeda seemed a risk on the different finish and fired vast from 25 yards however he was overwhelmed to the sort out by Adeyemi following a Twenty ninth-minute nook earlier than the ahead fizzed the ball inside Schmeichel’s close to publish and into the roof of the web from a tough angle.

Celtic continued to provide the ball away and the possibilities saved coming. Adeyemi got here shut from 25 yards after Paulo Bernardo’s free go and Schmeichel saved from Gross earlier than one other wave of targets.

Engels caught Adeyemi on the foot because the pair contested a bouncing ball and Guirassy did the harm from the Fortieth-minute penalty. Celtic shot themselves within the foot once more two minutes later when Maeda overran the ball on the sting of his field and Adeyemi provided one other deadly end.

Rodgers made a double substitution on the interval, placing Reo Hatate on for Bernardo and Alex Valle for Greg Taylor, who had been combating a calf subject.

Celtic have been spared extra punishment from Adeyemi when the 22-year-old Germany worldwide was pressured off by an harm simply after the restart.

However the sample of the sport didn’t change and Schmeichel made saves from 18-year-old substitute Julien Duranville and Julian Ryerson.

A poor cross from Nicolas Kuhn and a wayward shot from Hatate prevented Celtic from lowering the arrears earlier than Guirassy turned Liam Scales a technique and one other earlier than stabbing dwelling the sixth within the 66th minute.

The Celtic followers saved singing and their workforce saved attempting to reward them. Hatate got here nearer from 22 yards and fellow sub Adam Idah may solely head Valle’s cross into the arms of Gregor Kobel from shut vary.

The ache was not completed, although, and Nmecha drilled dwelling the seventh within the 79th minute after the ball broke for the substitute within the field.

Schmeichel denied Duranville from a one-on-one to stop a document European defeat and Celtic now must regroup earlier than taking over Atalanta in Italy of their subsequent recreation within the event.