Celtic need biggest Champions League performance yet against Young Boys as Arne Engels makes Leipzig level demand

Arne Engels insists Celtic are ready to cement a Champions League last 16 play-off spot with an even bigger performance than the one which blew away Leipzig.

Victory over struggling Swiss side Young Boys on Wednesday night would all but secure a top 24 place in the league phase. That would good enough to see them advance to the play-offs with a game to spare. And Hoops’ record signing Engels insists Brendan Rodgers’ side can produce their best show yet on the big stage - even better than the one which left Leipzig reeling in November. He said: “I think it was maybe one of our best games.

“But it's again Champions League and again we need to have that kind of level to be our best and to perform as we did then. We need to look forward. That's in the past, that was in November, so it's already two or three months behind us.

“We’ve improved as a squad, we’ve improved as players, so I think we are even better now and I think we can put on an even more complete game. We are really ready as a squad and we feel also in big games against good teams that we can do really well and that we can perform.

“So of course as a team I think we all feel that we belong to the knockouts and we will do everything to go there. The supporters will be there again and we will be there so it will be a really crazy night hopefully.

“It’s always unbelievable to play at Celtic Park, especially at European nights. I'm really looking forward to that, feeling that again, and the team is also really looking forward to it.”

Young Boys sit bottom of the league phase having lost all six of their games to this point. But Engels knows it would be a huge mistake to take their foot off the gas against the Swiss even if they’ve managed only three goals and