Elena Sadiku has actually tested Celtic to have fun with “swagger” as they try to distress the probabilities to open their Champions League Group B account versus Real Madrid.
The Scottish champs deal with the Liga F runners-up at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano on Thursday night with both sides having actually shed their opening component.
Sadiku confesses the hosts will certainly be solid favourites yet has actually concurred with caretaker Kelsey Daugherty’s evaluation of just how they require to come close to the video game if they are to get better from Sunday’s 1-0 organization loss at Hearts and arise with something to reveal for their initiatives.
The Swedish head trainer claimed: “It was Kelsey who said that we need to show ‘swagger’. I don’t know if it’s a Scottish word but I think that we need to come with confidence as well because we are the champions of Scotland, we’ve done something really great.
“Obviously if you look away from the result this weekend, I think we’ve been doing well domestically.
“We need to know that we’re a great team and that’s something I want to see tomorrow.”
The Ghirls’ very first venture right into the team phase of the competitors finished in a serious 2-0 loss by Dutch side FC Twente as Madrid decreased 3-2 at Chelsea.
Sadiku, nevertheless, thinks, her group will certainly be much better gotten ready for the job they deal with in Spain for the experience of that wounding night.
She claimed: “I feel against Twente as well, we were kind of underdogs but this is a bigger challenge when it comes to who we’re going to face.
“But I don’t think so much about underdogs or favourites or that situation, I just focus on looking at the game-plan and hoping to execute it as well as possible to get the best performance out of the players, but also to help get the points.”
For demonstrator Amy Gallacher, there is the included motivation of meeting other Scotland global Caroline Weir, back amongst the Madrid places after virtually a year out with a former cruciate tendon injury.
Gallacher claimed: “Personally, I looked up to Caroline Weir when I was young growing up playing football, so to play against her playing for Real Madrid, it’s a bit crazy. It’s just something I’m looking forward to.
“Obviously she’s a great attacking player for them. She creates goals, she scores goals, so obviously that’s something we want to stop during the game.
“She’s a massive player for them, so if we stop her, then we give ourselves a chance, so hopefully we can do that tomorrow.”
Asked what she appreciated around Weir as a child, the 25-year-old claimed: “Just the way she plays. Similar positions – I’m not going to compare myself to her – but obviously she’s someone I look up to and want to play like.”
