How 5 elite pundits saw Celtic misery in Dortmund as Owen Hargreaves drops truth bomb with 'relegation' scenario floated

No-one expected Celtic to go to germany and win, but the consensus among the experts was that they did themselves absolutely no favours.

Dortmund were ruthless in their punishment, seemingly scoring each time Brendan Rodgers' team made a mess of things in a horror show of an first half. The second wasn't much better as Nuri Sahin's side pushed for more goals and the Premiership champions can be thankful they only managed two of them. The gulf was openly acknowledged by just about every pundit in the aftermath, but there was no mere acceptance that there's nothing Celtic can do.

Brendan Rodgers has been questioned over his unwillingness to change it up when facing high calibre Champions League opponents, much in the same way predecessor Ange Postecoglou was. However, the risk of having a different kind of manager was also warned against given the potential consequences include not even having games like this, painful to watch as they may be.

Record Sport looks at the reaction from the big names who were watching on.

"The problem is that if they want to risk it, and have a different kind of manager; a Neil Lennon or Martin O'Neill, in the past, who don't play football that is on trend today, but is maybe a bit more risky. Maybe they don't win the league as comfortably as they did in the past. They miss out on that Champions League revenue. If you are a club like Celtic and you miss out on the Champions League that is like relegation."

"If you make mistakes like that, you are going to get punished. The question (to Brendan Rodgers) is fair; are you going to change anything? When you are playing top teams they can hurt you, but there is nothing wrong with having a different look from the opposition."

"I didn't expect