Liam Scales reveals Celtic pre match routine he will follow in Dortmund before 'getting down to business'

Liam Scales will calmly eye-up the Yellow Wall before his bid to help Celtic smash it down.

The Irishman is savouring the prospect of tackling Borussia Dortmund at their formidable Signal Iduna Park. Scales stepped out at iconic Euro venues such as Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano, Rome’s Olympic’s Stadium and Rotterdam’s De Kuip during his first Champions League voyage.

Now it’s his biggest stage yet, the 81,000-capacity home of the Bundesliga giants to mark another chapter in his brilliant career ascent. Scales has grown with each outing and it’s another mammoth challenge, but he is not daunted. Instead, Scales will stop for a moment before kick-off and just soak it up. Breathe where others have suffocated.

It’s part of his pre-match preparation. Taking that lingering look, inhaling the occasion and the setting as his way of getting fully ready for battle. Scales said: “For me, you get a minute before the game when the anthem’s playing, you’re lining up and we’ll do the huddle, then you can take in the atmosphere.

“It’s something I usually do, just to be calm going into the game, with a calm head. Just take a few deep breaths and then you’re ready. That would be something I’ve always done. Once the game starts, it doesn’t really affect you as much as you think because you’re so focused on what’s going on on the pitch.

“But I will take a minute while we’re lining up and coming out to take it all in because it’s obviously an amazing stadium and a great team. I was told it’s about 80,000 seats. That’s brilliant. That’ll probably be the biggest I’ll have played in. I’ll take it all in for that minute before the game. Then get down to business. I can’t wait.”

Scales knows others have choked in the pulsating atmosphere generated