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The Scottish champions produced a brave performance against Barcelona in the first leg of the last-16 tie at Celtic Park but were ultimately outclassed 3-2 by a far superior team.

He said: "It's the Nou Camp and it's going to be very difficult to play there against a world-class team, but we will go over there and fight like lions and see what happens."

The home side twice took the lead through Vennegoor of Hesselink and Barry Robson but those goals were cancelled out by Lionel Messi and Thierry Henry, respectively, before the former helped himself to the winner late on.

Celtic know a massive task now awaits them in the Nou Camp on March 4 but Vennegoor of Hesselink has refused to give up hope of a shock result.

"Maybe we can also score over there - anything can happen in football."

If Celtic's run in the tournament is about to come to an end, the Dutch striker believes he may have just faced the eventual winners of the Champions League this season.

He said: "If we don't qualify, I hope they win. You like to see good football and they are a good footballing team.

"We have a lot of respect for them and we know the quality they have, you have to take your hat off to that.

"They are the best team we've come up against in this competition. They were brilliant at times. It wasn't just the strikers, the midfielders also did some amazing stuff."