Why Dortmund didn't see Celtic's 'real face' as Nicolas Kuhn reveals how Brendan Rodgers picked hurting Hoops up

Celtic were left red faced in the Rhineland last week and it was even more of a riddy for Nicolas Kuhn after being determined to front up in his homeland.

But the wide man insisted Celts can turn the other cheek after their Borussia Dortmund and show that wasn't the real Hoops out there. Brendan Rodgers’s men bounce back from their battering with a battling win against Ross County on Sunday. Yet the scars from the Westfalenstadion will take longer to heal having gone to Germany with so much hope.

The 7-1 stuffing was a slap on the chops and Kuhn admitted he needed a sit down with his boss after being desperate to do the business in his own country. Rodgers turned his frown upside down and the attacker had Celtic fans smiling again with his late winner in Dingwall. Kuhn admitted it was vital to get back on track – and there is a huge desire to prove in the Champions League the Dortmund drubbing wasn’t a true reflection.

The former Bayern Munich and Ajax product said: “That was not our real face. We lost to the finalists of the Champions League and if you are not 100 percent on it they will take their chances. We talked a lot about it and it is done and we just focus on the games coming up.

“Yes, for me personally, it was really difficult as I wanted to have a good game there. It was not to be and that's how it is now. I spoke to the manager about it and he told me to keep going and that's what we did on Sunday.”

The Dortmund defeat was the kind of hefty hosing that provokes an existential crisis that has everyone questioning everything from Celtic’s ability to the level of Scottish football. Kuhn doesn’t think folk should dig too deep. It was a horrendous day at the office and there is plenty of scope to recover with