Celtic crash back down to earth with 7-1 loss at Dortmund

Celtic got a taste of their own medicine in Germany as they came crashing back down to earth with a 7-1 Champions League defeat against Borussia Dortmund.

Brendan Rodgers’ side had won their previous 17 matches and scored 33 goals this season before arriving at Signal Iduna Park in confident mood, fresh from a 6-0 win over St Johnstone on Saturday and a 5-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava in their Champions League opener.

But they found the step up in class too much to handle as they were overrun by last year’s runners-up, not helped by the absence of centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers and some slack passing throughout their team.

Celtic were briefly level when Daizen Maeda cancelled out Emre Can’s early penalty but Karim Adeyemi bagged a first-half hat-trick and Serhou Guirassy also scored from the spot before the interval.

Guirassy and Felix Nmecha piled on the misery in the second half as Rodgers found himself presiding over another Champions League thrashing.

What a night for Dortmund ⚫️