Scotland's top sports team look back at the weekend drenching for Dundee United and Rangers. Matthew Lindsay, Bert Mitchell and Thomas Jordan also look ahead to Rangers in Bucharest and Celtic in Hamburg.

ARTUR BORUC has undergone knee surgery and boss Tony Mowbray is hoping his keeper will return to action in less than a month.

The Polish international goalkeeper (below) went under the knife once Celtic received confirmation that Dominic Cervi could be added to their Europa League squad list as back-up to Lukasz Zaluska.

And Mowbray reckons his players will head to Hamburg with one very important weapon in their armoury - belief.

The Parkhead side must win on German soil for the first time in their history - the club's record so far is seven defeats and a goal-less draw against Werder Bremen 21 years ago - to revive their hopes of qualifying from Group C.

The 3-0 victory over Kilmarnock has given Mowbray's men a timely confidence boost.

And not even the absence of Boruc will be allowed to unnerve the Celtic players.

Mowbray said: "We would not have agreed to Artur having the operation if the clearance for Dominic had not been granted.

"Now the hope is Artur will be back in time for the league game against Dundee United in three weeks."

The manager was delighted to see Zaluska keep a clean sheet ahead of making his Euro debut for the Hoops in Germany.

He was even happier to watch Aiden McGeady, Georgios Samaras and Niall McGinn hit the net to shoot Celtic three points clear in the title race.

Mowbray said: "I'm happy when anyone scores, but it's a valid point with the lads who scored on Saturday that it's always important for the attack-minded players to score goals to keep their confidence high.

"What was particularly pleasing for me was their ability to continue to play in a manner I wanted, despite the outside pressures on them.

"They still went out there and expressed themselves extremely well, moved the ball about the pitch and scored goals to win the game in a good manner.

"I hope that is because they believe in what they are doing.

"No matter what the outside world may say or write, what really matters is what is going on in the dressing room between ourselves.

"In the previous game, against Hearts, I thought we played well. But the perception of the outside world was it was rubbish and we lost 1-0.

"That didn't hurt us or affect us because we know we were pretty good that night.

"We just lacked that finishing touch which was there on Saturday."

Hamburg boss Bruno Labbadia said of their 3-2 defeat by Moenchen-gladbach: "It's our first setback of the season."

Thursday's game will be refereed by Carlos Velasco Carballo from Spain.