Supervisor Elena Sadiku is “excited for what now we have in entrance of us” regardless of Celtic exiting the Champions League after simply 4 video games and with out incomes a degree.
The Scottish membership nonetheless have two video games in Group B to play however now can’t progress after dropping 3-0 at Chelsea.
The in-form Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) aspect are via to the quarter-finals with a few video games to spare in a lop-sided pool by which Actual Madrid want only a level to hitch them within the final eight.
Celtic will hope to say a primary level of their marketing campaign after they journey to Twente on 17 December – however Sadiku has been inspired by her gamers coping with Chelsea’s star-studded line-up higher than WSL sides have this season.
“It says so much concerning the staff I’ve. We have now high quality gamers and the gamers are studying that as a staff we will compete with Chelsea and Actual Madrid,” she mentioned.
“I’ve seen them harm different groups greater than they’ve harm us.
“You’ll be able to see how good they’ve been towards high gamers. There are star gamers in each place for them.”
Celtic beat Vorskla 3-0 on mixture to develop into the primary Scottish aspect to qualify for the Girls’s Champions League group stage because it was launched in 2020-21.
However they misplaced 2-0 to Twente of their Group B opener then had been thrashed 4-0 by Actual Madrid earlier than Sonia Bompastor’s aspect received 2-1 at Celtic Park final week.
Wednesday’s return recreation in London made it 11 wins from 11 video games for Bompastor and the distinction in high quality was apparent, with Celtic surviving on simply 27.7% possession.
That they had solely two touches within the Chelsea field in comparison with their opponents’ 57, no corners in distinction to the Blues’ 15 and three pictures to the WSL aspect’s 25.
“We’re studying and rising. We’re rising in confidence,” added Sadiku.
“There are numerous issues we will additionally enhance. This expertise goes to be an important one for us sooner or later.
“After we sit down and undergo what we have achieved and executed, I really feel proud – but additionally have starvation to win the league once more, be extra profitable and play within the Champions League once more.
“I am excited for what now we have in entrance of us. That is the beginning of one thing new. We wish Celtic to be a staff folks find out about in girls’s soccer.
“The gamers additionally must take with them that if they will carry out like this, they are often courageous and assured.”
