恐れる factor! Lennon 収容する/認めるs to '苦悩' as Celtic 準備する for Barcelona examination
Neil Lennon has 警告するd his players to 推定する/予想する football's 見解/翻訳/版 of hell on earth when they 直面する the ultimate European challenge on Tuesday night.
Lionel Messi, Iniesta and Xavi are just some of the 支持する/優勝者s League superstars who を待つ Celtic in the Nou (軍の)野営地,陣営 Stadium.
The absence of 重要な defenders Carles Puyol, Gerard Pique and Daniel Alves has bred 用心深い talk amongst Parkhead fans of vulnerability in the Barca rearguard.
Centre of attention: Lennon is 準備するing his Celtic 味方する for the challenge of Barcelona
However, にもかかわらず making a personal trip to watch the Catalans ship four goals to Deportivo La Coruna in a 大混乱/混沌とした 5-4 勝利,勝つ on Saturday, Lennon still? 解任するs such talk. Or any suggestion that his unfancied team are under no 圧力.
The Celtic boss has, instead, primed his players for a torrid, 激しい occasion, explaining: ‘Listen, they make 広大な/多数の/重要な teams look ordinary.
'It's a 全く different 始める,決める up for me as a coach. 'The normal attacking instincts of the players will be curtailed. Not by choice - just by the sheer 軍隊 of the players they are going to come up against.
堅い 実験(する): Lennon's Celtic will 直面する the brilliance of Lionel Messi and Co on Tuesday night
'There is 苦悩 there. I've thought about nothing else.
'Watching them through DVDs, analysing them, looking at how other teams have 始める,決める up. But 基本的に they just peg you 支援する.
'They have done that to Chelsea, Real Madrid - and if they get a stranglehold on you they are don't let go.'
Lennon played in two draws as a Celtic player in Barcelona in 2004 playing against Xavi and Iniesta. Since then, however, Barcelona have moved の上に another level thanks to the incredible 得点する/非難する/20ing 記録,記録的な/記録する of Argentine world player of the year Messi, the 支持する/優勝者s League 最高の,を越す scorer for the past four seasons.
Magician: Celtic will need to keep Messi 静かな if they want to leave Spain with any sort of result
The absence of Puyol and Pique could 誘発する
a start for the inexperienced 21-year-old centre-支援する Marc Bartra, but Lennon believes the danger of the 前線 five and Messi far outweighs any 防御の 関心s.
'You are 用心深い of 存在 embarrassed. You don't want that - I certainly don't want that.
'Everyone says it's very exciting going there, but these guys have to go out and play against them.
'They have to be 全く focussed for 93 or 94 minutes and it won't be enjoyable at times. "People say, "what's it like to play in the Nou (軍の)野営地,陣営?"
堅い 実験(する): Lennon's squad are put through their paces at the Nou (軍の)野営地,陣営 on Monday evening
'井戸/弁護士席, you come off and say "I don't know, I don't remember much about it." I was too busy doing this, that or the other.
'It かもしれない won't be that enjoyable for myself. The build up is 広大な/多数の/重要な, but from here on in it's just total 集中.'
Unbeaten in their last five away games in Europe, the SPL 支持する/優勝者s have won their last three. This will be the sternest examination yet, however, Lennon rubbishing talk of the 圧力 存在 off.
Thumbs up: But Puyol remains a 疑問 for Tuesday's fixture
'I feel 圧力 anyway. I feel 圧力 to try and get something out of the game, I feel 圧力 to 代表する the club at European level and there will be a lot of people 支援する home 心配するing a really exciting night. 'You carry that with you.'
Celtic have a 重要な 高さ advantage and took careful 公式文書,認める of Deportivo's astute use of 始める,決める plays on Saturday.
船長/主将 Scott Brown and central defender Kelvin Wilson are 率d 'very doubtful' by the 経営者/支配人, with Kris ありふれたs and James Forrest 推定する/予想するd to 打ち勝つ 病気s.
On the ball: Fabregas could feature for the Spanish 巨大(な)s
Identifying Georgios Samaras as the conduit for any attacking 脅し Celtic do 召集(する) the 経営者/支配人 譲歩するd: 'This is the ultimate challenge but you have to change the way you play.
'We're not going to have the ball. We're not going to be able to play through them, we're going to have to have an out ball at some 行う/開催する/段階 which is why Samaras is going to be important at some 行う/開催する/段階, and my 今後-thinking players.
'Samaras will be very important because of his physical せいにするs 同様に as the football he brings to the team.
戦う/戦い: Samaras (left) and Brown will 直面する up to the Spanish 巨大(な)s on Tuesday night
'We look a big 味方する at times, that's maybe one department where we can maybe 影響する/感情 Barcelona 特に at 始める,決める-pieces but our 配達/演説/出産 has to be 権利. And you hope we get a f****** 始める,決める-piece in the game.'
Bemoaning the possible loss of Brown's energy he 追加するd: 'For what we will have to do tomorrow night he would be perfect for that. But we have Ledley, Kayal, Forrest who could come in from the Spartak 味方する and they are all fit so we have good 選択s.'
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