Ange pledges to attack despite absent stars
already out for a month, James Forrest still ten days away from a return from injury and Georgios Giakoumakis not yet up to speed, Celtic face an enormous task as they try to win on Spanish soil for the first time. Adamant that he won’t shy away from the attacking creed he has preached so far, however, Postecoglou said: ‘My philosophy is, if you win games you’ve got a good chance of progressing.
That’s irrespective of whether it’s home or away. ‘If you start thinking about scratching around for a point here and there or trying to accumulate a certain amount of points to get through… again it’s not the kind of football we want to play. ‘We’ll go there and try to win a game of football. Our approach won’t change. ‘It’s not that we don’t recognise the difficulty of the opposition. ‘But playing for those kind of outcomes is just fraught with danger. ‘You are starting already with conceding something and I’m not going to concede anything to anyone in any way, shape or form. ‘What I do know is the game starts 0-0 and you have 90 minutes to win a game of football.’ McGregor came off early against Ross County last weekend and has been unable to shake off the knock — believed to be a muscle injury. ‘It is not great,’ added the manager. ‘He is a very influential player for us but we are going through a period just now where we are going through some significant outs. ‘It has been the state of play since I have got here. We have been in a constant state of flux and haven’t been able to settle. ‘That is an opportunity to build our resilience through this period and to just keep doing what we have been doing and playing our football.’