City travel to face the Scottish Premiership side in the Champions League.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola has claimed that Manchester City are expecting Celtic to look to play in the manner that saw them thrash Rangers 5-1 in the first Old Firm meeting of the season, STV reports.
The two sides meet in the Champions League group-stages on Wednesday. And while they have both been dominant in their domestic leagues, the Hoops go into the game having lost their opening fixture in the competition 7-0 to Barcelona.
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers
But Guardiola has insisted that the Citizens will not be reading into the heavy defeat in the Nou Camp as they will be expecting Brendan Rodgers’ men to adopt the same sort of style that inspired them to the emphatic win over their bitter rivals.
“I saw the game against Rangers here and how intense they were. It was totally different to the way they played against Barcelona,” he said, as reported by STV.
“They waited more and more and were passive. Against Rangers they were so aggressive with high, high pressing.
“That is the game we are going to expect from them tomorrow night.”
With the Bhoys going into the game as underdogs, Rodgers may be instructing his players to play with the kind of freedom that saw them claim impressive victories over the Gers and, more recently, against Kilmarnock rather than the style that saw them comfortably dispatched in the Nou Camp.
Having a go at the Sky Blues may see them lose heavily once again, but it could also see them create the kind of openings they need to spring a surprise, so it would surely be a risk that Rodgers will be telling his squad to take.
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