Brendan Rodgers confident Celtic can cause shock in Dortmund

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has genuine belief that his team can cause an upset in Dortmund after seeing them maintain their flying start to the season with a 6-0 win in Perth.

The champions swept St Johnstone aside in the William Hill Premiership thanks to Kyogo Furuhashi's double and goals from Paulo Bernardo, Callum McGregor, Daizen Maeda and Republic of Ireland striker Adam Idah.

Some of the goals were of the highest quality in terms of the creativity, composure and technical ability in the build-up and further built confidence ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund.

Rodgers’ side have now scored 33 goals in nine wins this season in all competitions and have yet to concede a goal in the league.

On the prospect of getting a result in Germany, Rodgers said: "Why not? We got there with good attributes in the team, the physicality and the running power that we have.

"You know you are going to be in moments of stress when you’re away but you can see a mentality in how we defend and how compact and tight we are.

"So in those moments when you do have to do that, then you know when you break out of that you have speed in your front of line that can really hurt.

"But we are under no illusions, it’s going to be a brilliant occasion for us to test ourselves against a top team and top players. I can’t wait for it."

Dortmund warmed up with a 4-2 victory over Bochum in the Bundesliga.

"I watched the game on Friday night and it shows the mentality, they were 2-0 down and they came back to win 4-2," Rodgers said.

"Make no mistake about it, it’s a team on a really, really high level with top players but I’m really looking forward to see how we measure up against that.

"I think we can create chances, I think we