Former Celtic striker Darren Jackson described their 7-1 thrashing by Borussia Dortmund as “embarrassing” and urged Brendan Rodgers to vary his philosophy when taking part in within the Champions League.
Celtic arrived at Sign Iduna Park in assured temper having received each sport this season, together with a 5-1 defeat of Slovan Bratislava of their European opener and a 6-0 beating of St Johnstone within the Scottish Premiership on the weekend.
Nonetheless, they had been ruthlessly uncovered by the Bundesliga facet for whom Karim Adeyemi scored a first-half hat-trick and Serhou Guirassy netted twice.
Rodgers has all the time favoured an open, attacking strategy however Jackson mentioned that displayed the fragility of his group.
He informed Good Morning Scotland: “It was embarrassing. I’ve been there, I’ve misplaced seven and that’s not having an actual go on the supervisor or the gamers, they’ll know themselves – they’ll be embarrassed.
“Everybody has a philosophy and a construction in the best way they play, they usually’ve been taking part in that properly, they’d the boldness to go and play the Brendan method.
“That’s the place they must say, ‘can we play like this?’, and I don’t suppose they’ll as a result of what they do within the Scottish Premiership to groups, was achieved to them final night time. It was a task reversal from the Bratislava sport the place Celtic pressed them they usually simply gave the ball again.”
“We’ll all the time adapt, however generally high quality shines by.”
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Jackson felt it was unfair to position all of the blame on Rodgers and mentioned the gamers must do extra.
He added: “The gamers must be higher. Individuals could have a go on the supervisor, however the gamers must be higher in possession of the ball.
“Dortmund had been ruthless, however all the highest groups are ruthless.”
Celtic’s subsequent Champions League task sees them go on the street once more to a different free-scoring facet in Atalanta in three weeks’ time.
And Rodgers accepts they are going to have to be higher.
He mentioned: “We went in excessive in confidence. We felt we had been in a very good place. We needed to begin a lot better than we did, as we gave away actually low cost objectives. And we bought punished for free bits of play and passes. They had been ruthless of their ending. It was unimaginable to see.
“It’s very tough for us to get to that stage. It’s a unique stage, with the best respect. We wish to be extra aggressive, that’s what was disappointing from our perspective.
“My job is to go away and encourage the gamers once more. We have to study from it or we’ll get punished at this stage.”
