Who will win Aston Villa vs Celtic? Our writers deliver their predictions for the Champions League blockbuster

It's Battle of Britain time once again as the Champions League takes centre stage.

It's matchday eight and the final outing in the new look league format with both Aston Villa and Celtic already securely in the top 24 - meaning they will advance to the play-off stage. However, with the top 8 still possible this has the making of a real blockbuster, not that it wasn't already one! Unai Emery's men are currently ninth and need to get the job done and a slip up elsewhere to go their way and while it is not an out of the equation scenario for the Hoops if they win -SEVEN results would need to unfold.

Brendan Rodgers set out to reach the next stage at the start of the campaign and he's ticked that off by bagging 12 points from the first seven games including victory over Young Boys last time out. The fans will head to Villa in their thousands looking for another famous night in the Champions League and Record Sport have delivered their view on how they seeing the game going.

There’s no real pressure on Celtic so they can take a swing at the EPL big boys and see what happens. Villa will need the win and have plenty of firepower, but Celtic will be in the fight.

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Tough task for Celtic but they have shown grit on the road in their last two away fixtures in the competition going to Bergamo and Zagreb and can secure themselves another point to end the campaign if they play to their full potential.

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It feels a bit like a free shot for Celtic with qualification for the play-offs already secured. But it’s not quite that simple. With Villa in need of a win to nail down a top eight spot the English outfit have a huge added incentive. And yet there’s no reason why Scotland’s champions