GROUP B STANDINGS

Brendan Rodgers wants Celtic to exploit any Salzburg weaknesses in tonight’s Europa League clash. The Austrian champions, who reached the semi-final of the tournament last season before losing to Marseille, are unbeaten in this campaign and sit top of their domestic league with nine straight wins.

Both sides won their opening Group B fixtures, Celtic beating Rosenborg 1-0 at Parkhead while Salzburg beat RB Leipzig 3-2 in Germany, although the Northern Irishman noted that they surrendered a two-goal lead before scoring a late winner.

“They had a very good result in their last game, away in Leipzig,” said Rodgers, pictured.“theyscoregoalsbutwealsoknowthey concede goals as well, so there’s going to be opportunities in the game and we need to be clinical.

“When you watch the game against Leipzig, there were a couple of mistakes where they go 2-0 up, but then it all changes very quickly in the second half. You always have to find a team’s weak points and how you can exploit those.

“But we respect every opponent. They have real quality in their team and the players have confidence.

“They win a lot of games and score goals, so we know defensively that we’ll have to be really organised and also really aggressive in the right moments.

“We know we can score goals also. We have good speed in the team, good players and we can also keep the ball well.

“It’ll be a difficult game for us but it’s what we expect in a European game. We know we have to defend well, be concentrated, match the intensity and work-rate. When we have possession we team, but we are looking at ourselves. We want to win the game, of course.”

Although the Austrian champions reached the last four of the Europa League last season Rose refused to look too far ahead. He said: “The semi-final will take place in April next year. Now it is October, so there is a lot of time left. We shouldn’t look too far ahead. But we want to get far in the Europa League.”

● Aberdeen have revealed their “total shock” at the decision to offer Scott Mckenna a twogame ban for his tackle on Celtic forward Odsonne Edouard.

The Pittodrie club say they will appeal the decision “in the strongest possible terms”.

Mckenna has been charged with serious foul play for his lunge which forced Edouard to hobble off during Saturday’s match which Celtic won 1-0.

Referee Bobby Madden saw the incident at the time but took no action against the Aberdeen player.