Champions League: Brendan Rodgers hails Celtic after RB Leipzig win

After opening with a thumping success over Slovan Bratislava, a sobering shellacking by Borussia Dortmund, and a doughty draw with Atalanta, this victory leaves Celtic on seven factors on the halfway level of their marketing campaign.

Subsequent, they host Membership Brugge, earlier than travelling to face Dinamo Zagreb, welcoming Younger Boys and concluding on the highway in opposition to Aston Villa.

They presently sit thirteenth within the 36-team desk – degree on factors with Manchester Metropolis in sixth – with a top-eight end securing an automated last-16 place, and a spot between ninth and twenty fourth making certain they’d be within the play-off spherical.

In response to evaluation by Opta, 16 factors would nearly actually safe a top-eight place and 10 could be adequate for a play-off spot.

“We have now to remain humble in our work, we will not get too far forward of ourselves,” Rodgers mentioned.

“It offers us an actual good confidence. We have found within the final two video games we might be actually aggressive.

“For those who informed us after the Dortmund sport we might have 4 factors from the subsequent two video games, I do not assume too many individuals would have mentioned we’d have completed that.

“It is an important subsequent step and provides us nice encouragement to go and make the play-off stage, however there’s nonetheless a lot to do.”