Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
We can bounce back — Brown
C E LT I C c a p t a i n S c o t t Brown has backed his team-mates to bounce back from the 5-0 hammering by Paris St Germain in Champions League Group B at Parkhead.
An Edinson Cavani double and goals from Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and a Mikael Lustig own goal sunk the Scottish champions.
But Brown believes Celtic will give a much better account of t hemselves against Belgian side Anderlecht i n their next European match and at home Ross County in the Premiership on Saturday.
Brown said: “We will pick ourselves up, not a problem. This team will bounce back.
“We’ve got a huge game coming up at the weekend now and we need to go and win that.”
Brown admitted Celtic were not up to the standard their fans are used t o seeing at Parkhead.
He said: “I think the first half just wasn’t us.
“In the first half we were very disappointing but in the second half we were very positive.
“We tried to put them on the back foot and put them under pressure but, because we were pressing so high up the park, we left ourselves a little bit open.”
Brown tried to be positive despite the heavy defeat to a star-studded PSG team.
He said: “They’re a great team and they’ve played really well but we’ve got five games to go now (in the Champions League).”