Celtic Park on a Champions League European night is tribal. That rarified special atmosphere is world-renowned.

Brendan Rodgers is slowly but surely regaining Celtic's credibility on the European stage. The Scottish champions are going for three Champions League wins on the spin at Parkhead. The men in green and white will be roared on by the 'Primal Scream' of 60,000 natives inside the wonderful amphitheatre in Glasgow's east end. There are few better places to be on the European football than G40 on a night such as this.

Celtic are going head-to-head with Marco Rose's top Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig. A third home successive win for Celtic will see the manager and their supporters start dreaming of a place in the coveted knockout phase having seen off Feyenoord last season and Slovan Bratislava 5-1 on Matchday One.

A 6-0 destruction of Aberdeen in the Scottish League Cup semi-final at Hampden Park was the perfect warm-up ahead of this one. However, Rodgers is mindful that Celtic also beat St Johnstone 6-0 before taking on Borussia Dortmund in the Signal Iduna Park Stadium on Matchday Two and they were clinically dismantled 7-1 by the Germans.

The Scots were all smiles on Matchday Three though as Celtic gained a morale-boosting goalless draw against last season's Europa League winners Atalanta in Bergamo. Rodgers is hoping that the levels of intensity reached in Italy can be replicated inside Celtic Park in what promises to be a Bonfire night cracker. The 51-year-old said: "RB Leipzig will be no different to Borussia Dortmund or Atalanta – they're a top team near the top of their league.

"They have everything that you would want in a top European side in speed, power, strength and technique. It's a brilliant challenge and one we’re really looking forward to, having been away for the last couple of games. Off the back of the result in Atalanta, we’re at home and we’re really excited by that.

"Off the back of the first game here, we showed the intensity that we wanted, we went to Dortmund and that was a really challenging night for us. We’re grateful for the support we had after that. The supporters were good for us on what was a really difficult night. That gave the players the energy and the confidence to then go forward. Like it is, you always have to learn and have to be better.

"We were that in Atalanta against a really, really outstanding team. So now we have the chance to come back home and be a full house, and really look to bring our energy to the game, but also know that we’ll have to defend for a good period of the game as well and defend with the concentration and commitment that we did in Atalanta.

"I think that it was a challenging evening in many aspects, but I’ve mentioned it before with this group of players, I think what carries any individual or any team is the mindset. This is a team whose mindset is to improve and to be better. We knew we needed to be better after that game, me included, and we were able to go away and focus on that. We were much better in our game in Atalanta. So, yes, this is another good opportunity for us to perform at a high level. Just about having those concentration levels right and getting the distances correct, because it was there against Atalanta, obviously there’s going to be a lot of attacking talent in the RB Leipzig team.

"In the three games that you mentioned, the Borussia Dortmund, a lot of the ideas going in were similar because you're playing against such a top-level opponent, but the game just got out of control too quickly for us in Dortmund. We were probably just too individual in our pressing. That allowed us to regroup again and go to Atalanta and press how we wanted to and defend how we needed to. The players showed that they could do that against a top attacking team.

"We'll need to do that again RB Leipzig. There's going to be times where we're going to be able to press again and be aggressive on it. There's going to be moments where we have to be controlled in that and then look to play and cause them a problem when we have the ball."

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Rodgers reckons his men have shown excellent resilience thus far to bounce back from the Dortmund setback which would have seen lesser sides crumble. The Irishman said: "It's just that you have to have that resilience. I think that top teams will push you back.

"You can go with the idea, whatever idea it is you want, but you know at moments in games you're going to have to defend and you have to have that organisation and have that resilience to be able to do that. So, I think that what Atalanta proved to the players at the very highest level, we can do that, but it really takes a big concentration. It takes a big commitment and it takes a togetherness in order to do that because the team together, how they moved, how they were all synchronised in their actions and moving up the pitch and being tight and filling in spaces, they were very, very good.

"So, it will be the same in this game but you need moments of that and then that earns you the right to play."

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Just how important will home advantage be in this one is immeasurable. It's been a while since Celtic Park was a European fortress and top teams left Parkhead with zero points as well as the tail between their legs. If Celtic wake up on Wednesday morning with seven points from four games then they will be in fine fettle. Rodgers said: "Your home games are very, very important at this level and we all know here that, as I said, when you want the result, then the supporters can bring you closer to that. I think it's going to be that intensity will be needed and the noise and what it generates here is absolutely incredible.

"We'll also need that little bit of patience as well because there's going to be moments whenever you, at times, supporters will want you to go forward and want you to press, but we have to be educated in our pressure and for that, that means making sure that everyone is in tune with that because you can't sustain it. You can't continue to do it against the very, very top teams. So, there'll be moments of pressure. There'll be moments where you're compact and tight, waiting for that tactical moment to press and I'm pretty sure the crowd, as I said, they'll get behind the players and hopefully can push us to a result.

"I'm excited by it because we've got ourselves, after three games, into a really good position. Two tough games, a fantastic performance here and now we've got another opportunity to show that we can pick up a result against a top, top team."

Rodgers has claimed RB Leipzig's scalp before on the European stage back in 2018 when he guided Celtic to a famous 2-1 win in the Europa League group stages. If experience tells Rodgers anything it is that Rose's team will press Celtic. The need for the Bundesliga side to take something from this encounter is bordering on desperation after the Germans failed to register a single point on the board in their opening three matches. A cup final atmosphere? You had best believe it. Rodgers said: "I just know how Marco Rose teams will play.

"I know what the Red Bull philosophy is. So, you know they want to press. You know they want to be aggressive. You know they're going to have physicality in the game and you also see what they're doing back in the Bundesliga to tell the top, top side. So, it is a different type of challenge to the Atalanta one with just how they work. It's similar in terms of their profile of player, and the status that they have in their league. Knowing that Marco Rose teams, they will press, they will run, they will be aggressive. We're hoping that we can have the same result that we did against Leipzig when I was here the first time.

"Every game for us at this level is a cup final. I mentioned that right at the beginning of this competition to our players. We have eight finals to see if we can get into that playoff stage. So, they've had tough games. They'll be disappointed with the Juventus game where they were at home and they lost a man and lost the game. They are coming into this fourth game where they will be desperate to get points on the board but thankfully, we are too.

"That should make for a fantastic game. It is going to be a difficult challenge, but that's the level and we know that but we know what we can do here. We know we can score goals. We know we can create goals and we want to make it as difficult as we possibly can for them, with the ball and against the ball. We have a huge respect for every team we play at this level, and in particular, this team here. They've got a very, very good record. For us, we also have to concentrate on our strengths and we've shown that we can score goals. So, we have to push and do everything we can to get the win and to be effective in that phase of the game."

"We're playing against a lot of teams that are superior to us and from superior leagues. That challenge in itself is absolutely great. as we try to find ways in which to gain the results that can bring you to your endpoint. It's an amazing competition to be involved in. You have some games where you have to take your medicine.

"We learn and we hope to be better, and improve and certainly from a manager's perspective, it's a really exciting level to be involved in."

Now Celtic needs to draw on inspiration from the class of 2018 as they attempt to do a number on RB Leipzig once again. Rodgers said: "I think to win a game at this level, you have to bring your A-game to it. I thought that night we were excellent, the intensity of our game, the pressure we had in the game.

"Of course, you have to ride your luck at times as well. That's the level. But no, I thought our intensity, our pressing, our football was very good on that evening. At this level, you have to be near-perfect to get a big result. It's just time. I think what is important is to have a good mood. I think the mood is great at the moment. That's why I give gratitude to the supporters after the Dortmund game because when we walked over at the end, which was on the back end of a tough evening, they stayed with the team. They were with the team. They'd seen what we'd been doing up until that point.

"We hope to prove that that was just a night where we just weren't at our best and we got heavily punished for it but we've shown that we can learn. Then, like you say, getting results and getting results here can build that mindset again. So, like you say, the Feyenoord and the Bratislava, two really good games. The Bratislava win got us off to a really good start in the competition and now we play against a top team on the back end. We hope to get what would be a good result and a fantastic result.

"Let's see if we can keep this mood and feeling going."

Strap yourself in for a real firecracker on Bonfire night. If Celtic can defeat RB Leipzig it will give Rodgers's men wings and ensure that their Champions League campaign has taken off.