Arne Engels retracing familiar steps in Celts’ UEFA Champions League journey

A total of 81 teams started out in this 2024/25 UEFA Champions League tournament with dreams of making the final, but only two of that 81 will live that dream. Tomorrow night in the magnificent Signal Iduna Park, Celtic will face a side who made it all the way to last year’s final, but, in the Hoops’ ranks is a player who knows exactly what it’s like to come up against Borussia Dortmund in their own backyard. Arne Engels made the move from the Bundesliga’s FC Augsburg to Celtic just a month ago, and now after scoring twice in five wins for the Hoops, he is back in Germany on Champions League duty. The Belgian Bhoy said: “It’s always amazing to be here, I’ve played here a few times. It’s going to be nice tomorrow, the atmosphere will be there, so these are all positive points to come and play here. “We also have an amazing atmosphere at Celtic Park and it’s kind of the same, everybody knows how to handle it, if you can play at Celtic Park you can play everywhere.”Just a week before his 21st birthday, Engels made his Celtic debut in the white-hot cauldron of a Glasgow derby, and, indeed, he made his Augsburg debut at the very stadium where he will play his sixth Celtic game tomorrow night. He said: “It was amazing, I came from the second division in Belgium, then coming here in front of 80,000 people was amazing, but it was a crazy game, I think it was 4-3 for Dortmund. “It was really amazing to be here and also it’s close to Belgium so all my family were here. So it was really great to get my debut here. “It’s good that I know the stadium, but we just need to perform and look to ourselves. We are doing really good at the moment. We stick to the basics, we are in a good mood and we want to do the same thing tomorrow. “If you don’t have the belief then just don’t come here. ‘We want to come here and win, you always have to have this kind of mid-set.’ “They are a really good team, they are always a good team to play against. They are a strong opponent, but we are also in a good way, so it’s going to be good.” He added: “Everybody is really focused on their jobs and that’s what makes us really strong as a team “Every day we are setting the standards for ourselves and doing a really good job there, so it’s up to us now to show it like we do every week. “We want to perform and do our best, that’s what we have been doing so far and we just want to perform at our best. “Everybody will be there and everybody needs to be sharp.”FixturesBorussia Dortmund Vs. Celtic – Tue, Oct 1st 2024, 20:00