The points Celtic need for Champions League playoffs as madcap route emerges

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The points Celtic need for Champions League playoffs as madcap route emerges
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The drab draw in Zagreb has fans firing up the calculators and scribbling down scenarios

It was another point on the road for Celtic in the Champions League against Dinamo Zagreb - and it could prove vital with the Hoops fans dreaming of more glory nights in Europe's elite competition.

Using their supercomputer, Opta simulated the league phase fixtures 50,000 times and found that in 99 per cent of their simulations teams who collected 10 points made it into the play-off round. Encouragingly for the Parkhead faithful a tally of nine points proved to be enough in 69 per cent of simulations by the supercomputer - which would be a dream scenario for the club.

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