Celtic told of Bodo Glimt factor 'worse than anything' as midfield star says Hoops could be blown away like Roma

It ended up minus two in Glasgow for Celtic but Ange Postecoglou ’s men have been warned they are in for an even more chilling experience in the Arctic Circle.

The Parkhead side are feeling the heat as they attempt to chase down Bodo Glimt’s 3-1 first leg lead from last week. But midfielder Elias Hagen reckons the Hoops could end up freezing just like Jose Mourinho ’s Roma.

The Norwegians were ice cool when they hit the Serie A side for six in the Europa Conference League group stage and Celts will need to be prepared for some pretty extreme conditions.

Bodo is one of Europe’s more northerly cities, well inside the Arctic Circle, where the winters are dark and the Northern Lights are bright.

But the thermometer doesn’t tell the full story as there’s a storm waiting for the Scots tomorrow. And Hagen, a standout at Parkhead, said: “The temperatures are not really cold right now. It’s maybe two or three degrees below.

“But the wind makes it feel more like minus 12. That’s pretty cold! This is why we do so much running on the pitch, you can’t stay still in this weather!

“At Bodo it’s actually the wind that’s worse than anything else.

“The temperature isn’t really too bad. When we played Roma it may have only been a couple of degrees under freezing but because of the icy wind it felt so much worse.

“It felt like minus 20 and was absolutely freezing and you could see what it did to them.

“I hope it makes us tough playing in conditions like that but I know the Scots are really tough too so we will see.”

Hagen reckons the conditions and the set-up spooked Roma, with the freezing wind, the plastic pitch and 5500 locals giving it laldy. Hagen revealed the Italian giants’ manager was left bitter back then – but it was nothing