World media reacts as Celtic take a 'big slap' from Dortmund 'steamroller' while Brendan Rodgers question goes global
This was supposed to be a Celtic team better equipped to compete at the top level in Europe.
This was supposed to be a Dortmund team that wasn't getting near the heights of the side that reached last season's Champions League Final and only lost out to the mighty Real Madrid. Yet the gulf looked embarrassingly big as Brendan Rodgers' saw his plan ripped up and thrown in his face before 45 minutes were even up with the shell shocked Premiership champions 5-1 down.
The joy of Daizen Maeda's quickfire equaliser was soon extinguished as a familiar tale against the big guns away from home in this competition played out. And there was to be no mercy from Nuri Sahin's team. The Turk accused Rodgers of "wrecking" his Liverpool loan spell during his playing days and wreaked terrible revenge in front of a Yellow Wall hungry for more goals as BVB refused to take their foot off the gas.
Record Sport looks at how the world's press reacted to a painful night for the best our league has to offer.
German tabloid Bild couldn't ignore the "small shadow" of hat-trick hero Karim Adeyemi's injury. They said: "Borussia Dortmund celebrates a goal fest, rolling over Celtic Glasgow 7:1 in front of 81,365 spectators in the sold-out Signal Iduna Park. The home team played like one piece, especially in the first half. The blemish of the interim equaliser did not change that, and it did not impress the Black and Yellows in the slightest.
For 45 minutes, Nuri Şahin's boys remained greedy, kept stepping on the gas and wanted more. Karim Adeyemi in particular was unstoppable for the overwhelmed Scots. The fact that the three-goal scorer had to leave the field injured shortly after the break cast a small shadow. And of course BVB did not keep up the