Sinisalo, Trusty, Palma, Idah, Valle, Yang, McCowan, Nawrocki, Bernardo, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh.

Substitutes for Slovan Bratislava: Trnovsky, Hrdina, Voet, Medvedev, Marcelli, Mak, Zuberu, Gajdos, Vojtko, Szoke, Savvidis, Metsoko.

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We're going to assume most of you are now familiar with the changes to the competition, with an eight-match league phase replacing the group stage.

Fans are turning up in t-shirts and sunglasses, and the statue outside the stadium of Jock Stein with the 1967 European Cup cuts a fine silhouette.

On a rare occasion when they began a game in Europe's premier competition as favourites, Brendan Rodgers's side delivered an invigorating performance full of energy and poise.

Liam Scales headed in Arne Engels' corner to send the crowd wild on 17 minutes, and the Scottish champions created a flurry of other opportunities before the break but failed to embellish their score.

However, Kyogo Furuhashi diverted Nicolas Kuhn's fierce cross into the net barely two minutes into the second half, banishing any lingering nerves Celtic fans may have had about profligacy returning to bite them.

Further opportunities came and went before the outstanding Engels slotted in a third from the penalty spot after Alistair Johnston was caught by Danylo Ihnatenko.

Kevin Wimmer's brilliant finish with the outside of his left foot briefly punctured the party atmosphere as Slovan hit back, but normal service quickly resumed.

Reo Hatate teed up Daizen Maeda to re-establish Celtic's three-goal cushion, before James Forrest slipped through fellow substitute Adam Idah to round off a morale-boosting and much-needed victory.

The Celtic story in the Champions League in the last decade has been wearily familiar, with the storied Glasgow fortress of old fading into distant memory, replaced with tales of defensive woe and a stack of painful losses.

Rodgers' part in that - despite continued domestic dominance - has also come under scrutiny, with the Northern Irishman managing just two wins as Celtic boss in 18 games in the Champions League prior to this one.

Here they were presented with a huge opportunity to win their opening game at the 13th attempt, against a Slovan side with less means and making their first appearance at this level.

Rodgers himself said this was the best he had ever felt coming into a European campaign after a strong summer window and start to the domestic season.

There was pressure, then, to make a mark and they duly did with a slick performance which provided too much for the Slovakian champions.

Record signing Engels was hugely influential as Celtic passed with purpose and speed, as well as hounding their visitors every time they lost the ball.

Engels, Kyogo, and Maeda all could have netted hat-tricks such was Celtic's dominance as they repeatedly worked the ball neatly through midfield and down the sides of the porous Bratislava backline.

With trips to Borussia Dortmund and Atalanta, plus a home game against RB Leipzig to come, the tests will only get sterner from now.

However, this performance here re-ignited the European fire at Celtic Park and sets them up well to make a fist of reaching the play-off round in this revamped format, where a place in the top 24 keeps the campaign going.

Vladimir Weiss's side had done to them what superior sides have done to Celtic over the years, as they struggled to cope with the intensity of their opponents with and without the ball.

They did have their moments, chiefly when former Tottenham midfielder Wimmer profited from Greg Taylor's skewed clearance to calmly find the top corner of Kasper Schmeichel's goal.

Vladimir Weiss, the pantomime villain of the night as a former Rangers forward, also had a great chance to level in the first half but - typically of Slovan in this game - he took too long to shoot and ended up having his effort blocked.

Celtic have won their first match of a Champions League campaign for the first time at the 13th attempt.

Slovan were the ninth side to concede more than five goals in their first Champions League game, after Feyenoord, Maccabi Haifa, Levski Sofia, Zurich, Sporting Braga, Rostov, Qarabag, and Royal Antwerp.

Celtic scored five goals in a single European Cup or Champions League match for the first time since September 1977 against Jeunesse Esch (6-1).

It's the first time they have had five different scorers in this competition since September 1973 against TPS Turku.

Having only won two of his first 23 Champions League matches (D6 L15), Rodgers has won both his last two.

Engels was only the second player to both score and assist a goal on his Champions League debut for Celtic, after Henrik Larsson against Juventus in September 2001.

Kasper Schmeichel was the first player aged 37 or above to appear for Celtic in the Champions League.

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Celtic and Slovan Bratislava have faced on two previous occasions, with both of those meetings coming in the quarter-final of the 1963-64 Cup Winners’ Cup.

The Scottish side won both legs by a 1-0 scoreline, before being eliminated in the semi-final by MTK Budapest (3-4 on aggregate).

Slovan Bratislava’s last victory over a British side in major European competition was in September 1975, beating Derby County 1-0 in the first round of the European Cup (first leg).

Since then, they have played nine such matches and failed to win all of them (D2 L7), including defeats in each of the last five.

This will be the 28th edition of the European Cup that Celtic have been involved in, with Manchester United (30) being the only British team to appear in more (Liverpool also on 28, as of 2024-25).

Slovan Bratislava have qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time, becoming just the fourth Slovakian side to play in the competition, after FC VSS Kosice in 1997/98, FC Petrzalka 1898 in 2005/06 and MSK Zilina in 2010/11 (all of whom went out at the group stage).

Celtic have never won their opening game of a UEFA Champions League campaign, drawing two and losing 10 of those.

Indeed, they’ve not scored a goal in their opening match since 2006-07, in a 2-3 defeat away to Manchester United.

Slovakian teams have won just one of their 18 matches in the UEFA Champions League, with that sole win coming for FC Petrzalka 1898 in September 2005 away at FC Porto, a 3-2 win, when they were managed by current Slovan Bratislava manager Vladimír Weiss.

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has won just 13% of his games in the UEFA Champions League (W3 D6 L15); the lowest win percentage of any manager with 20+ matches in the competition.

Celtic conceded the most goals of any side between the 75th and 90th minute (not including added time) in the UEFA Champions League last season (6), while also failing to score themselves in that period.

Celtic midfielder Paulo Bernardo averaged 86.

5 high-intensity pressures per 90 in the UEFA Champions League last season; the most of any player in the tournament (min.

300 minutes played).

Captain Vladimír Weiss, son of the current Slovan Bratislava manager, has played eight times in the UEFA Champions League previously, featuring three times for Rangers in 2010-11 and five times for Olympiakos in 2013-14.

He contributed to a goal on his debut for both clubs – an assist for Rangers vs Valencia and goal for