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Celtic manager Neil Lennon has welcomed a break with that popular after it was shown the other day that the country will have two groups in the Champions League qualifier next summer. In fact, if Basel lost to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League quarter-finals late through Covid-19 on Tuesday, Scotland will still be 14 in the UEFA rankings. This result would cause a successful ten-in-a-row finish to enter Celtic in the third qualifying circular, two circulars later than this season.
The draw for this year’s first Champions League qualifying circular is a more immediate fear for the Celtic manager, even before this afternoon’s trip to Kilmarnock. This will be positioned this morning, with the draw of the next circular tomorrow. If they progress, Celtic will qualify for the 4 qualifying fits. The first 3 of them will be played as knockouts of a closed-door adjustment due to the blockade of the pandemic.
The shapeat makes the club’s attempt to succeed in the failed Blue Riband tournament in the last two seasons even more precarious. As a result, Lennon hopes to avoid any headaches that may result from the age of the coronaviruses, despite the club’s impressive shape on the road at the continental festival last season: the defeat of the Europa League organization in Cluj, his only loss in eight away games.
The 48-year-old marvels at Scotland’s distance as a European football competitor, basically thanks to the exploits of Celtic and Rangers by leaving their Europa League teams last season to lift the standings.
“It’s just that Scotland has two goals in the Champions League next season. It’s wonderful news that the champions, we hope, will play fewer qualifying rounds,” said Lennon, who led the club to a first definitive European organization last winter. “It has been a long wait and an indispensable condiment for the country, which is a testament to the functionality of organizations in Europe lately.”
Lennon is determined to bolster the co-efficient further courtesy of his team’s progress in the Champions League qualifiers this year. The later start he hopes will assist on that front, and so too the fact that Celtic have been masterful in negotiating one-off ties on the domestic scene in racking up 34 straight such successes during their run of 11 straight Scottish honours. Moreover, he would be content were Uefa loosely to regionalise the earlier rounds, as has been suggested. That could put Welsh team Connah’s Quay Nomads in the frame to be first-round possibles. Meanwhile, such as KR Reykjavik – beaten by Celtic in the qualifiers six years ago – Faroes side Ki or Finnish club KuPS are also potential opponents that would not require arduous trekking were the Scottish champions drawn away.
Lennon is looking to hold on to all the imaginable benefits of the Champions League crusade, adding the later start of the matches generally scheduled for early July, before the national crusade begins.
“We had a longer pre-season, although obviously not as many games as we used to have had before the season, and we made a wonderful start at home,” he said. “Being links to a stretch, the more links we can get home, the better. With the way things go, you don’t know what you’re getting into in other countries, but at least if you have a connection at home, get acquainted with protocols and the environment.
“Ideally, we need a tie at home, but it’s a leg and we have to succeed at night, whether at home or outdoors. The fact that there’s no crowd overrides the merit of the house, but we do. We don’t know who the opponent will be and whether he’ll play on a plastic court or what the stadium will look like, so it’s about keeping his brain open and being bigger, get ready. We will have to check to put everything in position and, if we are absent, prepare well for him and configure the protocols with Covid.
“Our national cup race is a positive point that we can take advantage of and move back on to the Europa League race last season, which is excellent. There are some wonderful rewards at the end, so we have to take advantage of any positive delights of the last 18 months, adding up our national cup race and our cross organisation in the Europa League.
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