5. FC Bayern Munich vs Glasgow Celtic (Group C)
Putting the very recent past behind will be the driving force for Bayern Munich as the team will seek to recover lost face for the 3-0 humiliation at the hands of PSG in Game Week 2.
The 5-time UCL winners who had been wobbly all season even before that disastrous performance in Paris sacked coach Carlo Ancelotti in the aftermath of defeat and old warhorse and coach of the all-conquering treble-winning Bayern team of 2013; Jupp Heynckes has been brought back to steer this very storied club from the stormy waters it had found itself in.
Up against the German juggernaut will be Scottish champions Glasgow Celtic who will be confident of doing something at the Allianz Arena. The Scottish team was decimated by PSG in the first game of the group stage at Celtic Park but coach Brendan Rodgers led his team to record a resounding away win over the group’s errand boys; Anderlecht.
With the Parisiens almost guaranteed a place in the knockout stages, both matches between these two teams are must-win games as the loser can kiss their chance of qualification goodbye.
Following from the 5-0 thumping of relegation-threatened Freiburg in the Bundesliga, FC Hollywood as Bayern are called gave coach Heynckes the perfect welcome-back resent but should expect to face more durable opposition in the shape of the feisty Scots.