Unai Emery wary of threat posed by Leigh Griffiths

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Brendan Rodgers’s Celtic will face Paris Saint-Germain at Celtic Park in the Champions League on Tuesday evening.

Paris Saint-Germain manager Unai Emery has told BBC Sport that he and his players are aware of the threat posed by Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths.

French giants PSG will take on Scottish powerhouse Celtic away from home at Celtic Park in Champions League Group B on Tuesday evening.

Griffiths is likely to start for Brendan Rodgers’s side against the Ligue 1 outfit, with fellow striker Moussa Dembele out injured.

PSG manager Emery has spoken highly of the 27-year-old Scotland international striker, who has been on the books of Celtic since January 2014 when he joined from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a transfer fee reported by The Scotsman to be worth £1 million, and has underlined the threat he poses.

“I know of his quality, how well he plays on the ball and how well he keeps the ball,” Emery told BBC Sport about Griffiths.

“He has a lot of experience,” added Emery about Griffiths. “We’ve analysed the style of the team and his style as well and we’ll try and adapt for him.”

PSG have one of the best squads in Europe and have a very strong defence, and it is going to be hard for Celtic to even pick up a point.

However, if the Glasgow giants score the first goal of the match inside the first 15 or 20 minutes, then perhaps the Hoops could have a chance of earning a point from the encounter.

Griffiths is one of the best strikers in the Scottish Premiership, and the former Wolves will be determined to impress against PSG.