Three key clashes that could decide the game

2 Oliver Burke has been a real hit for Brendan Rodgers’ side since joining on loan from English Championship outfit West Brom last month. The 21-year-old has been deployed as a striker during his short stint in Glasgow and is expected to lead the line against Valencia tonight in the first leg of the last-32 Europa League clash with Valencia. Valencia were a top team when they reached the Champions League final in both 2000 and 2001, only to lose to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively. They won the Cup Winners’ Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 1980, before collecting the UEFA Cup and another Super Cup in 2004. The Blanquinegros qualified for an 11th UEFA Champions League group stage campaign this season after two years without European football but they dropped out after finishing behind Juventus and Manchester United in Group H.

This is the Spanish side’s fifth appearance in the last-32 of the Europa League and they have won all four previous ties against Club Brugge, Stoke City, Dynamo Kyiv and Rapid Vienna.

Valencia finished fourth in Laliga last season but are in eighth place at the moment, 20 points behind leaders Barcelona after 23 games.

They have lost only four league games this season but have drawn their last three matches – their most recent a goalless draw at home to Real Sociedad at the weekend. Indeed, Marcelino’s side have drawn 16 times this season, which started without a win in the first seven matches.

Marcelino took over from Voro (Salvador Gonzalez Marco) in May, 2017. A former midfielder with Sporting Gijon, Racing Santander, Levante and Elche, he retired through injury at the age of 28.

The former Spain Under-21 international counts previous coaching spells at

Zaragoza, Real

Racing Club,

Sevilla and Villarreal, whom he guided to promotion, three successive top-six

Laliga finishes and the 2016

Europa League semi-finals.

Valencia faced Celtic in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup third round and it ended in some drama.Both sides won their respective home legs 1-0 which led to a penalty shoot-out at Parkhead.Henrik Larsson, Stiliyan Petrov and Joos Valgaeren missed penalties for the Hoops – the latter twice when his first one was ordered to be retaken – and the visitors won 5-4.The Spanish club also triumphed when the two sides met in the first round of the 1962/63 Inter-cities Fairs’ Cup, winning 4-2 at home and drawing 2-2 at Celtic Park, where John Clark missed a penalty. It was Celtic’s first competitive European game at home.Valencia were boosted by the weekend return of Portugal winger Goncalo Guedes after three months out with a groin injury. Hoops fans may remember Ezequiel Garay, who scored Benfica’s winner against Celtic in a Champions League group game in November 2012 (2-1), while former Arsenal midfielder Francis Coquelin is in the squad.However, former Arsenal defender Gabriel Paulista and striker Santi Mina are injured, new boy Facundo Roncaglia is suspended and Spain forward Rodrigo Moreno has reportedly been left behind due to fatigue. Nineteen-year-old defender Alex Centelles was drafted into the squadfor the first time.