Luke McCowan fired Martin O’Neill’s much-changed team into a first-minute lead in Germany to make the score 4-2 on aggregate following last week’s resounding win for the visitors in Glasgow.
While the Hoops walked away with a 1-0 victory last night, they were well beaten over both legs, and struggled to capitalise on their early goal on Thursday evening to make more of a fist of the tie.
“I think when you see the line-up from yesterday, the starting line-up, then I expect some changes, it’s normal, they try to use the full squad,” Rohl said when asked about Celtic. “I was a little bit surprised after 1-0 that they’re not trying to win this game, 2-0, 3-0, to have a chance. They keep the result until the end, I think they’re just a little bit apart.
“It will be interesting as well, the goalkeeper position, what he’s doing now, let’s see. But we are prepared, I think we’re focused on ourselves, we also have some interesting decisions to make.
“I know if everyone is available, it’s also for me in some positions not an easy decision, because there are more than two or three players who are ready for this game.
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“It’s a good situation, I like this, my players showed that they are ready, I think this is crucial, and yeah, let’s see what it means on Sunday.”
With Celtic losing at home to Hibernian last weekend, Rangers missed the chance to open up a bigger gap on their rivals and stay closer to Hearts when they stuttered to a 2-2 draw at basement boys Livingston.
Rohl is keen to put that game to bed and focus on the positives from the match, where the visitors came back from two goals down.
He added: “We missed two points, but let’s turn it positively. At the end we won one point after being 2-0 down, but of course when you go there and you have so many chances, I think they had all in all three touches in our box and they made two goals.
“It’s difficult to understand, but this is football, that’s the reason why we love this sport, that anything can happen. But we have to go forward on Sunday and have a good game.”