“To have the entire workforce expertise it’s undoubtedly a constructive as a result of I bear in mind it being fairly daunting once we did it for the primary time with a giant crowd.”
Captain Kelly Clark is looking for her team-mates to make use of their previous experiences of taking part in at Celtic Park when the SWPL champions take to the Parkhead turf for the primary time within the Champions League tonight.
Elena Sadiku’s aspect performed their first recreation in Europe’s elite competitors at their new house of New Douglas Park in Hamilton, however will hear the Champions League music ring round Glasgow’s East Finish tonight when Chelsea are on the town.
Celtic have not performed on the stadium since unfurling the SWPL flag on the opening day of the season in opposition to Dundee United, however Clark is urging her team-mates to solid their minds again to that victorious day.
“We do not play right here each week, so I feel it was good we performed the primary recreation of the season right here as a result of it means everybody within the squad has skilled it,” the defender stated.
“Twente was very loud, however there’s potential for it to be even louder on Wednesday evening and it genuinely does change the sport as a result of you’ll be able to’t talk the best way you often do and clearly, it is a bit of a psychological recreation.
“You must know what to anticipate to sort of ignore it. It is good and you employ it for vitality, however within the grand scheme of issues it is 11v11 like some other recreation, as exhausting as that’s to place into observe.”
Celtic clinched their maiden league title in Could, which set them on the pathway for Champions League qualification, and Clark insists tonight’s event is correct up there with that historic day.
“It is the stuff goals are fabricated from,” she added.
“Seeing the Champions League branding in all places, to stroll out to hopefully hear a giant crowd cheer, to see my dad and mom within the stand, my household, my grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, the lot, it is an enormous event and I can not await it.”
