Txiki Begiristain, FC Barcelona's technical director is cautious in celebrating Barca's champions league opponents.


Casting our minds back, like Txiki has done, we'll recall that fateful day when Celtic knocked Barca out of the Uefa Cup. That was three years ago. Now it's time for a FC Barcelona to take revenge, but Txiki is not too quick to draw out his sword. The director says:

We already had the advantage before with the fact that we are playing the second leg at home. Apart from that, Celtic will be a team that will not let us relax at all, because we must not forget that they eliminated us a few years ago in the UEFA Cup. We hope that there will be no repeat of that and we will have to be prepared for the atmosphere that we will go into there. The atmosphere is still can cause us problems, create real pressure, and give them an edge to their style of play. There are elements of Celtic's game that are very strong and we will have to be careful.

Txiki also refrains from making any predictions on FC Barcelona's future in the champions league, prefering to take it one step at a time:

We are in the first knockout and it is only December. We are going to try and progress to the next round and if we reach the quarter finals then we will be able to see things more clearly.