Greg Taylor doesn’t buy into any notion that Celtic ’s Euro exit helps on the domestic front.
But the left-back admits he’s hugely motivated to get back among the continent’s elite – and he’s fully aware that passage is only opened by Premiership success. Ange Postecoglo u’s team will have their final Group F evening in five days’ time when they face Real Madrid. A trip to the Bernabeu will be their last foreign adventure of the season with bottom spot sealed on matchday five.
Celtic are eliminated from the Champions League while the consolation door into the post-Christmas knockout rounds of the Europa League is blocked off as well. Focus now turns to retention of the title as well as making a bid for success in the League and Scottish Cups. Naturally an assumption takes hold among those outside Celtic’s camp that removing the rigours of European competition can ease the burden on Postecoglou’s players and boost their challenges at home.
