Red Star vs Celtic LIVE team news and build-up ahead of the Europa League clash
Let’s be honest, Celtic fans felt like David Brent when they got the Europa League rather than the Champions League.
You know, when the woman in the chiffon scarf turned up at the pub on their blind date. Gutted, they were. Just like the Brentmeister General.
Ah but that’s in the past. Long gone. Time to get back down to business again. In the same way Brendan Rodgers is feeling after the club’s disastrous transfer window courtesy of Peter Lawwell and Co.
No point in crying over spilt semi-skimmed. The Scottish champions will be desperate to get their European campaign off to a flier but they won’t have it easy in the seething cauldron of Red Star Belgrade’s Marakana Stadium.
As previously mentioned – ad infinitum – Celtic didn’t have a good transfer window but the signing of Sebastian Tounetki has pleased some supporters after his performance against Partick Thistle in the Premier Sports Cup drubbing at the weekend.
They will be hoping he can produce some more magic and the likes of Keletchi Iheanacho can grab the odd goal or two.
Find out how they all get on in our LIVE blog!
Romanian whistler Radu Petrescu is the man in the middle in the Rajko Mitic Stadium.
The 42-year-old hasn't handled a Hoops game in his career but has taken charge of two games involving rivals Rangers, against Benfica in 2020 and Lyon a year later.
Petrescu will be assisted by Radu Ghinguleac Mircea Mihail Grigoriu, with Andrei Chivulete appointed as the fourth official.
On VAR duties it will be Italian official Michael Fabbri, and he will be assisted by Marcel Birsan.
There isn't much to separate these two sides in the eyes of the bookies with Betfair struggling to split them.
But they make the Hoops slight favourites.
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