The Celtic weapon to gun down Bayern is hiding in plain sight says legend who’s done it before
German complacency could be Celtic’s biggest Champions League weapon against Bayern Munich.
That is the view of Aberdeen and Scotland legend Willie Miller. The Bundesliga giants hold a 2-1 lead from Glasgow last week and will be looking to finish the job at the Allianz Arena and progress through the play-off round. Miller famously helped Aberdeen to see off Bayern Munich on their way to European Cup Winners Cup glory in 1983.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s side drew 0-0 in the Olympic Stadium and then beat them 3-2 at Pittodrie. Miller reckons complacency helped his Dons to glory and could well come into play this week. The Dons legend insisted: “Celtic going into the game, it is a huge task for them to turn a deficit round away from them. “But it’s not impossible but it’s huge and Celtic will know that. “Perhaps Bayern will have that kind of a superiority complex that might just help Celtic in their journey.
“I think Celtic have got to go in there with belief. “Celtic are a top quality team and they’ve done well in the Champions League, so they’ve been tested at a high level. This is probably a step further and because you’ve got the deficit, you’ve got the one goal deficit to try and turn that around.
“So they’ll be getting in as underdogs. I think Bayern will feel that perhaps the job was done at Celtic Park. But Celtic have got to go in there with the belief that anything can happen in football.”
Miller points to one of the biggest moments of Bayern Munich complacency came when they lost the Champions League to Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United back in 1999, when Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer both scored to win it in stoppage time. The former Scotland star admitted: “There was a feeling they would beat us in the Cup Winners Cup and we have seen it throughout the years with Bayern.
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