Three goals in three minutes early on - Can penalty after Schmeichel trips Gittens, Maeda forces in Engels cross, then Adeyemi lashes in
Adeyemi nets either side of Guirassy penalty as Celtic collapse
Hatate, Valle, Idah and Yang on as Celtic try to stem tide - but Guirassy nets sixth and Nmecha adds seventh
Celtic's heaviest European defeat remains 7-0
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Referee Jose Maria Sanchez is a card happy chappy by the look of things.
The Spaniard dished out 11 yellows in West Ham's meeting with Bayer Leverkusen last season and he's sent off three players already this season.
One of those red cards came in a Champions League qualifier between Fenerbahce and Lille, along with eight bookings.
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Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers tells TNT Sports: "Auston [Trusty] has had coupe of games now, settling in to the way we play, but it'll be about all the 11 and the guys coming off the bench.
"We can press the game well, when we have the ball it's about breaking through that pressure. And we have good players on the side to come in.
"I've got a real good feeling in our football and how we're working. I think we can cause Dortmund trouble with our attack."
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
This is the defining moment at this part of the season to see if Celtic can transmit what they have been doing domestically across to the Champions League against a good team away from home.
The excitement builds the adrenaline inside you but you have to be composed. It's all about the collective and everyone working to the maximum. They have to get the balance right and be pragmatic.
Image source, SNSCeltic captain Callum McGregor warming up
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Home and away, Celtic have won just four of 28 meetings with German opposition, losing 19.
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Celtic have never won a game on German soil in 14 previous attempts.
Their most recent experience ended with a 3-1 loss to Leipzig in the 2022-23 Champions League group stage.
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
James McFadden
Former Scotland forward on BBC Sportsound
I don't think Celtic will sit in. It's not how Celtic play, they don't sit back. There might be periods where they retreat a little bit but I'm not convinced Dortmund will have as much as 70% possession.
They won't allow Can and Gross to dictate the play. The defence is the weakness for Dortmund. Celtic have to use their strengths to exploit Dortmund's weakness. I think Celtic will come here and try to make it as uncomfortable as possible for Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Another new arrival at Celtic, Arne Engels, has recent experience of Signal Iduna Park, having moved to Glasgow from Augsburg.
The 21-year-old actually made his Bundesliga debut at what is the biggest stadium in Germany.
"I came from the second division in Belgium so to come here and play in front of 80,000 people was amazing," he recalled on Monday.
"It's always positive to play here. I haven’t spoken to a lot of the guys about it because they know it and we also have an amazing atmosphere at Celtic Park, so it’s kind of the same.
"Everyone knows how to handle it. If you can play at Celtic Park, you can play everywhere."
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
With Cameron Carter-Vickers missing out again with a toe problem, it's a big night for his USA team-mate Auston Trusty.
The 26-year-old summer signing is starting his third game in a row and he's likelier to be busier than he was in Saturday's 6-0 win at St Johnstone.
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Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland at the Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
The Celtic players just arrived onto the pitch for their warm-up and were greeted to a roar from their fans the likes of which would normally be reserved for a last-minute winner.
The Yellow Wall then just burst into song, Paul Lambert and Murdo McLeod are on the pitch addressing the crowd - it's all going off!
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Dortmund's most recent meeting with a Scottish side ended in a 6-4 aggregate defeat by Rangers.
It was during the Ibrox side's run to the 2021-22 Europa League final and Celtic's big rivals were 4-2 winners in the first leg in Germany.
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Borussia Dortmund have won six of their 16 games against Scottish sides, losing four of them - once to Celtic and three times to Rangers.
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Erling Haaland scored 67 goals in his two years at Dortmund.
Other famous former strikers include Robert Lewandowski, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Jan Koller, Stephane Chapuisat and Karl-Heinz Riedle.
Can Serhou Guirassy join that impressive list of BVB favourites?
The 28-year-old Guinea international has four goals in four outings after a summer move from Stuttgart, where he hit 30 last term.
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Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers breaking the news to Peter Schmeichel that he's sticking with Kasper in goals...
Schmeichel senior looks like he could still do a job.
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Mmm... Not sure Paul Lambert is going to get his wish for a dull stalemate.
While Celtic were putting five past Slovan Bratislava on match-day one, Dortmund breezed to a 3-0 victory away to Club Bruges.
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
A bit more from that Paul Lambert interview...
"I played with two special football clubs. I had incredible times with Dortmund and Celtic.
"It's a nightmare draw for myself just because of the association I've got.
"I'm sitting right on the fence. No saves or tackling. We'll go with a nice, friendly 0-0."
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
"You have to handle the atmosphere, you have to handle the crowd," Paul Lambert told BBC Scotland yesterday. "If you don't, Dortmund will make it so difficult.
"Celtic are used to playing big games, but you're going up another level. You've got to thrive on this. You can't buckle or else it will take you under."
Image source, Getty ImagesLambert was a Champions League winner with Borussia Dortmund
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Murdo MacLeod played in that 1987 tie, having just moved to Germany from Celtic.
He's not the only Scottish midfielder to play for both clubs, with Paul Lambert doing it the other way round and joining Celtic from Dortmund in 1997 - bringing a Champions League winners' medal with him.
Both men are in attendance this evening...
Image source, SNSMurdo MacLeod (right) with former Celtic skipper Neil Lennon
Image source, SNSPaul Lambert has been enjoying a return to his old club
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Celtic and Borussia Dortmund have met twice - in the Uefa Cup - with the Germans progressing both times.
Celtic won the first meeting 2-1 at home back in 1987, but lost 2-0 in Germany.
In 1992, Dortmund won both legs - 1-0 at home and 2-1 in Glasgow.
Image source, SNSDerek Whyte scored late on as Celtic beat Borussia Dortmund in the first meeting of the sides
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
James McFadden
Former Scotland forward on BBC Sportsound
I don't think you could argue about Paulo Bernardo starting. His form has been excellent. Whether it was Bernardo or Hatate starting, it's still a really strong line-up.
This is a strong Celtic side that Brendan Rodgers feels can go on and cause Dortmund problems. They're in great shape.
Image source, SNSReo Hatate is among the Celtic substitutes
Borussia Dortmund v Celtic (20:00)
Borussia Dortmund: Kobel, Couto, Anton, Schlotterbeck, Ryerson, Can, Gross, Adeyimi, Brandt, Gittens, Guirassy.
Substitutes: Meyer, Lotka, Bensebaini, Nmecha, Beier, Duranville, Sabitzer, Sule, Azhil.
Celtic: Schmeichel, Johnston, Trusty, Scales, Taylor, McGregor, Bernardo, Engels, Kuhn, Kyogo, Maeda.
Substitutes: Sinisalo, Bain, Palma, Idah, Valle, Yang, McCowan, Nawrocki, Hatate, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh.
Highlights: Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic
Celtic’s unbeaten start to the season came to a shuddering halt as they were taught a Champions League lesson by a rampant Borussia Dortmund inspired by the electric Karim Adeyemi.
Daizen Maeda cancelled out Emre Can’s early penalty in a frantic start, but it proved to be the briefest of respites for the Scottish champions.
Adeyemi ran riot with a lethal hat-trick, with another spot-kick from Serhou Guirassy helping the home side to a 5-1 half-time lead.
Guirassy struck again after the break and Felix Nmecha completed the rout with the seventh goal.
The victory sets Dortmund up to take on Real Madrid next in a rerun of last season’s final, while Brendan Rodgers' Celtic will have to improve drastically when they head to Italy to take on Atalanta in two weeks time.
Adeyemi nets first half hat-trick against Celtic
Celtic made the worst possible start, conceding a penalty when Jamie Gittens showed rapid pace to slalom through and lull Kasper Schmeichel into bringing him down in the box. Can coolly converted from the spot.
The response was swift. Arne Engels delivered a beauty of a cross from wide on the right that Maeda bundled in from close range.
If that equaliser was meant to settle down the Scottish champions, they barely had time to draw breath before Dortmund struck again.
The speed of Adeyemi was frightening the life out of the Celtic defence and he raced clear to fire past Schmeichel with the aid of a deflection off Auston Trusty.
The 22-year-old German international produced a moment of magic for Dortmund’s third, firing a rocket high into the net from the edge of the box to make it 3-1.
Celtic players looked unable to catch a breath and things started to really unravel when Engels caught Adeyemi and Guirassy buried the penalty to make it four.
The Yellow Wall was rocking now and Adeyemi had his hat-trick before half-time, firing in another fabulous long-range strike to beat Schmeichel’s despairing dive.
Celtic managed to stop the bleeding for the first 20 minutes of the second half, but Guirassy punished a Alistair Johnson mistake to bury his second and Dortmund’s sixth.
A wretched night was summed up for Celtic when substitute Adam Idah was unable to head into an empty net and Nmecha smashed in Dortmund’s seventh at the other end moments later to bring the curtain down on their humiliation.
Dortmund's xG was 2.91 compared to Celtic's 1.82
After nine wins from nine this season – including an impressive 5-1 destruction of Slovan Bratislava on matchday one – confidence was coursing through this Celtic side before what Rodgers described as an “acid test”.
Celtic have only ever won twice away from home in the Champions League, and never in 14 attempts on German soil. That never looked like ending here.
Drubbings at the hands of Europe’s big guns have become an unfortunate habit for Celtic in recent years, and this mauling will be filed alongside similar thrashings by the likes of the Real and Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Paris St-Germain.
'It's very difficult for us to get to that level' - Rodgers
This Celtic side was supposed to be different, supposed to have found defensive solidity to go with the attacking potency they have displayed this season.
Missing their defensive lynchpin, Cameron Carter-Vickers, it was always going to be a huge task to contain a Dortmund team who looked like scoring every time they flooded forward.
Had it not been for some last-ditch interventions from Liam Scales and good saves from Schmeichel, Celtic's record European defeat of 7-0 could have been beaten.
Sometimes you have to accept the opposition are just levels above, but Rodgers will be frustrated at the unforced errors that compounded Celtic’s problems.
This was always going to be Celtic’s toughest test and they came up desperately short. Now the challenge is to rediscover something much closer to their best for the remaining Champions League games.
Dortmund may have lost some of the key men that helped them to last season’s final, but they look to have all the tools to go deep into this tournament once again.
The likes of Jadon Sancho, Mats Hummels and Niclas Fullkrug may have moved on, but they still have stars all over the pitch and none shone brighter than Adeyemi.
His electric pace, and that of Englishman Gittens, tore Celtic to shreds, with the classy Julian Brandt pulling the strings and picking the holes in the visitors’ ragged defence.
Not many opponents will be as accommodating as Celtic were and tougher tests await, but Dortmund look to have the blend of pace, power and guile to trouble anyone.
Celtic remain without a Champions League win against German opposition, losing each of their last five such matches (P9 D2 L7)
Brendan Rodgers is the only manager to see his side concede seven goals in a Champions League match more than once (also 0-7 v Barcelona in 2016 and 1-7 v PSG in 2017).
Celtic are the first British team to concede five goals in the first half of a game in major European competition since Cwmbran Town against Progresul Bucharest in the 1997-98 UEFA Cup Winner's Cup.
They have failed to win any of their last 28 Champions League matches when conceding first, losing 27 (D1).
Dortmund extended their club record unbeaten home run in the Champions League to 12 matches (W8, D4)
Karim Adeyemi is the first Dortmund player to score a first half hat-trick in a major European game since Marcio Amoroso in a 2002 UEFA Cup semi-final against Milan.
Dortmund had 13 shots on target – their most in a Champions League match since recording 15 v Legia Warsaw in a 6-0 win in September 2016.
| Position | Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
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| 2 | Brest | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
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| 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
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| 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
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| 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
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| 6 | Sparta Prague | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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| 7 | Sporting CP | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
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| 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
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| 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
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| 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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| 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| 15 | Benfica | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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| 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| |
| 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| |
| 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 3 |
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| 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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| 21 | Bologna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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| 22 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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| 23 | PSV | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 1 |
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| 24 | Stuttgart | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 1 |
|
| 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
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| 26 | Sturm Graz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
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| 27 | Girona | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
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| 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
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| 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
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| 30 | Club Brugge | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
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| 31 | Feyenoord | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
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| 32 | Red Star Belgrade | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 0 |
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| 33 | Dinamo Zagreb | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 0 |
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| 34 | Red Bull Salzburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 0 |
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| 35 | Slovan Bratislava | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | -8 | 0 |
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| 36 | Young Boys | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | -8 | 0 |
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This will be Borussia Dortmund’s fifth meeting in major European competition with Celtic (W3 L1), with the German outfit winning all of their last three against the Bhoys and with all four previous meetings coming in the UEFA Cup (1987/88 & 1992/93).
Celtic have never won a UEFA Champions League match against German opponents (P8 D2 L6), losing all of their last four such matches in the competition. Borussia Dortmund will be the fourth different German side Celtic have faced after FC Bayern München (P4 D1 L3), Borussia Mönchengladbach (P2 D1 L1) and RB Leipzig (P2 L2).
Borussia Dortmund come into this clash on an 11-match unbeaten streak at home in the UEFA Champions League (W7 D4), keeping eight clean sheets during this run. This is already Dortmund’s longest ever home unbeaten run in the competition.
Celtic have lost all of their last five away matches in the UEFA Champions League and failed to win any of their last eight such matches (D1 L7). In fact, the last time the Bhoys won their first away match of a Champions League campaign was back in September 2017 – beating RSC Anderlecht 3-0 in what was their only win of the 2017/18 campaign.
Following their 3-0 win over Club Brugge on MD1, Borussia Dortmund could start with a victory and a clean sheet in their opening two games of a UEFA Champions League campaign for the first time since 2018-19. In that case, the German side also won and kept a clean sheet away to Club Brugge in their opening game (1-0).
After winning their final game in 2023-24 (v Feyenoord) and opener in 2024-25 (v Slovan Bratislava), Celtic will be looking to win three consecutive matches in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League for the first time since October 1986 (also a run of three).
Three different players came off the bench for Borussia Dortmund and either scored or assisted against Club Brugge last time out, with Jamie Gittens scoring twice, Serhou Guirassy once and Felix Nmecha making an assist. Indeed, this was the first time as many as three different Dortmund substitutes had all directly contributed to a goal in a UEFA Champions League game.
Daizen Maeda and Kyogo Furuhashi both got on the scoresheet for Celtic on MD1 (v Slovan Bratislava), the first time in UEFA Champions League history that two Japanese players had scored in the same match for a team.
Despite only coming on as a 68th-minute substitute against Club Brugge on MD1, Jamie Gittens scored two of his team’s three goals in a 3-0 win. Indeed, this was the fewest minutes played by a Borussia Dortmund player to score a brace in a UEFA Champions League match (22).
Arne Engels scored and assisted on his UEFA Champions League debut for Celtic last time out (v Slovan Bratislava), becoming the youngest player to do so for a Scottish club in the competition (21y 10d).
