Rodgers on 'special' target, maturing Celtic & massive European night

Brendan Rodgers has been speaking to the media before Celtic's Champions League game with Young Boys on Wednesday night.

Here are the key lines from the Celtic boss:

• Rodgers says Celtic are in a "great position" to reach the knockout stages for the first time in over a decade - a win on Wednesday would secure a play-off spot - and achieving that feat would be "very special".

• The team's reaction to the 7-1 defeat in Dortmund earlier in the campaign shows they have "matured", with Rodgers adding: ''They're definitely evolving and that's what you want to be able to see."

• The Celtic boss isn't listening to the "noise" around Young Boys' poor record in the Champions League this season. The Swiss side are bottom on zero points, but Rodgers says: ''The games we've watched, they are what you'd expect a team of this level to have, athletic ability and quality."

• Rodgers says it'll be up to his players to calm any nerves among supporters by playing with the "speed and quality we've shown at this level, especially at home".

• The game has the feel of a cup tie for Celtic, according to Rodgers, who stresses his players "understand the magnitude" but must "play the game and not the occasion".

• He wants to replicate the magic of historic European nights at Celtic Park, saying it is "what the culture and the history of this club has been set on".

• Apart from winger James Forrest, everyone is fit.