English Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n“He\u2019s a great strategist coach. A lot of journalists from Serbia were asking me about the favourites.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s no favourites in football. It\u2019s a game of inspiration, the moment, certain specific moments.<\/p>\n
“On paper you write whatever you want but Celtic is a team that was made for participation in the league of champions.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s exceptionally dominant and strong. They are physical. They also have a lot of foreign players, so it will be an interesting game in any case.”<\/p>\n
Just like Celtic, Red Star are licking their wounds after a shock Champions League exit to Cypriot outfit Pafos.<\/p>\n
However, Milojevic reckons the Hoops’ dismal defeat to Kazakh minnows Kairat Almaty was a freak result.<\/p>\n
He said: “Those were the games that Celtic were favourites and have much better qualities.<\/p>\n
“Celtic have better qualities than Kairat. They played those two games.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t want to say anything bad for the Kairat team but those were not right parameters.<\/p>\n
“Celtic has a good team and as any team we\u2019re aware that at this moment they also have certain issues.<\/p>\n
“They are looking at tactics, their game as we are. At the beginning of the championship, we also have a lot of issues. But I think we\u2019ll be well prepared for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Celtic will walk out to a red-hot atmosphere at one of Europe’s most intimidating venues with a bumper crowd expected.<\/p>\n
It’s the Hoops’ first visit to Belgrade since arriving as Kings of Europe in 1968 – earning a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n
Milojevic added: “I\u2019d like to see all supporters who come to support us.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re working hard, representing Serbia in the city of Belgrade. We\u2019d like to be a great host to all teams who come here.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really glad that such teams with great traditions are coming to Belgrade.<\/p>\n
“We would like to be great hosts and I believe our supporters will show great power in our stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are special games. Different from the domestic league, especially when you play games like this.<\/p>\n
“They also participated in the Champions League last year so we have in our group a lot of teams who oddly play in Champions League.<\/p>\n
“This is a strong, exceptional team and we\u2019re looking forward to starting out the campaign with Celtic in our stadium Marakana.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Midfielder Timi Elsnik(Image: Nikola Krstic\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n
Midfielder Timi Elsnik watched Celts in action in last month\u2019s Old Firm borefest and Ibrox – but admits he isn\u2019t clued up on their biggest threats.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI don\u2019t know any of the players. Of course we watched the derby.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that 0-0 derby is not really an assessment of the strength of Celtic.<\/p>\n
\u201cCeltic are a big team, dominant in their league, we\u2019re aware we have a difficult opponent.<\/p>\n
“But we\u2019re playing in the home ground. I doesn\u2019t matter how they line up, we\u2019ll be prepared.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re aware that Scottish football teams are really physical and we have to be equal in that segment.<\/p>\n
“But we have to use our own qualities and we have our own experienced players who can win a game at any moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Celtic should always think about us, we have to believe that we can play in the proper way and I believe the result will come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladan Milojevic is relishing the opportunity to pit his wits against the Hoops managerHead Coach Vladan Milojevic of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2817,53183,1669,1725,2600,218,71332,8058,11728,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-155804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-celtic-fc","tag-celtic-park","tag-champions-league","tag-english-premier-league","tag-europa-league","tag-football","tag-red-star-belgrade","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-scottish-professional-football-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Head Coach Vladan Milojevic of Red Star Belgrade(Image: Nikola Krstic\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n