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And Slot, now into his fourth season at Feyenoord, is clearly a fan.

His team met Rodgers' Celtic twice in the Champions League group stages and speaking before the first meeting back in September, he said his admiration for the Irishman went back further than that.

As Slot's Feyenoord got ready to welcome Celtic to Rotterdam, he said: “They play football which I like to see.



Brendan Rodgers did a very good job with Leicester City, reached the semi-final of the Europa League with football everyone enjoyed watching.

There were chances at both ends but Calvin Stengs had them in front at half-time, and after a second-half meltdown from Celtic that saw Gustaf Lagerbielke and Odin Thiago Holm sent off in quick succession, Alireza Jahanbakhsh settled it late on.

By the time they met again at Parkhead in December, Celtic were out, and Feyenoord were marooned into the purgatory of third place and the consolation prize of Europa League football was in the bag.

At that point Celtic had gone 15 Champions League games without a win, a run stemming back six years to Rodgers' first spell in charge.

If they would’ve got more points then tomorrow would’ve been playing maybe for a Europa League position but also a Champions League for the next round.

“So, I do think if you look at the way Lazio are playing in their season in Italy, then it was an ideal moment for Celtic or us to go to the last 16
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