Brendan Rodgers tells Celtic Euro snipers 'I'm no dreamer' but boss WON'T change gameplan for anyone

Bullish Brendan Rodgers insists he’s no dreamer - but the defiant Celtic boss is adamant he won’t change his football philosophies despite another Champions League nightmare in Dortmund.

The Hoops gaffer is still smarting from the brutal 7-1 bashing BVB dished out to his team at the Westfalenstadion on Tuesday night. The Scottish champions marched into that clash with the Bundesliga giants on the crest of the wave after an undefeated domestic start at home. But Rodgers claims he was never naive enough to discount the possibility of his side suffering a big defeat to Nuri Sahin’s lethal line-up.

What the Northern Irishman is prepared to dismiss is any notion that he may rethink the aggressive tactics that took his team to last year’s double triumph, even though they were also directly involved in his team being so exposed in Germany. Rodgers said: “I'm experienced enough to know that when the stakes are high and you get high-level competition, that sometimes you have to expect defeat.

“If you don't, you're a dreamer. And if you dream in management, you won't be in it long. It's great for everyone to dream, and for critics to look and think what the scores might be. But as a manager, at times against the Champions League finalists, you might expect that you might actually lose. But we'll learn from it and be better for it.”

The critics have been lining up to take pops at Rodgers after his team’s latest Champions League collapse. His side also shipped seven to Barcelona and PSG during his first Parkhead stint and there was a six-goal shellacking away to Atletico Madrid last term. But the former Liverpool and Leicester gaffer would much rather square up to the top teams prepared to have a go than meekly accept an inevitable