6 surprising Celtic and Rangers Champions League stats as Moritz Jenz crashes passing party

Celtic and Rangers' Champions League campaigns have both begun rather slowly - although stats suggest that one of the two sides are set to end up in the ascendency.

Rangers have conceded seven and failed to score themselves as they remain rooted to the bottom of an admittedly tough Group A that involves Liverpool, Napoli and Ajax, whilst Celtic fell to an impressive Real Madrid side before failing to take the bull by the horns against a depleted Shakhtar Donetsk outfit.

A lot is taken into consideration with statistics nowadays, and it is no surprise that the better teams in the competition rank top of the rankings throughout. But there are a few surprises from the Scottish outfits that could mark the rise of their progression in the tournament. Record Sport takes a look at some of the statistics that heavily favour - or go against - Celtic and Rangers ' so far this season.

Rodri, Antonio Rudiger, Marco Verratti, Fikayo Tomori...that right there is a list of superb passers in defence and midfield.

But, surprisingly, all of them are surpassed by Moritz Jenz in terms of passing completion. The German defender has completed 158 of his 164 attempted passes, giving him a 96 per cent completion rate in the competition.

Jota was close to scoring twice against Shakhtar Donetsk following a couple of jinking runs which had defenders scrambling to find their feet, and although his efforts were not rewarded, the signs are there.

Only La Liga Ousmane Dembele and Vinicius Jr have completed more dribbles than the Portugal starlet, and Celtic will be hoping that their home ties against Leipzig and Shakhtar will prove more fruitful for the former Benfica prodigy.

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