Davie Hay: Dorus de Vries has the gloves at Celtic - but Craig Gordon the better goalkeeper

But right now my own opinion would be – and I appreciate it is early days to pass judgement – that Craig Gordon is the better of the two stoppers.

Gordon was culpable for mistakes last season and he didn’t quite hit the heights that he did in his inaugural campaign with the Parkhead side, but I think he could consider himself somewhat harshly treated to have been benched when he was.

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I actually think that de Vries was brought in for that Aberdeen game but he was brought in before he was quite ready.

Managers are paid to make judgements and their own position prevaricates on those decisions. And, when it comes to the goalkeeping position you simply can’t have one in and one out because it just doesn’t work that way.

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It is for that reason that I suspect we will see de Vries line up against Inverness in the Highlands on Sunday afternoon. It wouldn’t be the choice that I would make but I am not being paid to pick the team.

You would have to say that of the big calls Rodgers has made since coming to Celtic, he has not got too many wrong. As a manager you simply cannot afford to be overly sentimental when it comes to players you have worked with before or went out on a limb to bring them to the club, you have to be able to look at dispassionately and go with what you think gives you the strongest team.

I am not saying for one minute that Celtic would have come away from the game with anything if Gordon had been in goal – I still think they would have lost against a Barcelona side who were rampant – but I still need to be convinced by de Vries, although I don’t think the same applies to Rodgers.

What you do have to think, though, is that it is maybe a position that is not entirely settled just yet.

As for the game itself in the Nou Camp there just isn’t too much that you can say about it.

It was humiliating, let’s be honest about that. If Moussa Dembele scores the penalty then it does change the complexion of the game. You get a psychological lift from getting onto even terms in the Nou Camp and you get the chance to regroup a little.

Again, I still think that Barcelona would have won and won comfortably but it might just have had a wee bit more respectability to it.

Instead, Celtic miss a penalty and Barca go up the park and score a second. By that point it is gone and Barcelona ran all over the top of them.

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I also think that if you take away the Gibraltar Red Imps game in that first leg and the away game against Hapoel Be’er Sheva, Rodgers has got every bit call right so far.

However, I thought the balance of the team was all wrong going into the game against the Catalans. The three at the back didn’t work because the right-back, Cristian Gamboa just wasn’t ready for a game of that magnitude.

It was a massive game for him to be asked to go into his debut in and the fact that so many of their early goals came down that flank showed you how vulnerable Celtic were there.

The one thing Celtic wanted from the game was to come out of it with their respectability still there but Barcelona really did go for the jugular. They are an exquisite team to watch and it is not just how lethal they are with the ball, but how difficult they make it for their opponents when they don’t have it.

They press like terriers. If they didn’t have the ball they were on everyone’s case until they got it back. Celtic will not be the only team this season whom they dish out that kind of result to.

But I did think that the system was wrong. The back three with two full-backs left only two holding midfielders – Nir Bitton and Scott Brown – and they were swamped. Scott Sinclair tried to support Dembele and it left Patrick Roberts completely isolated.

There is nothing now to do but pick over the bones of it and then move on. They need to pick themselves up because they have Manchester City next who are no slouches either.

It is about making sure you go and give a decent account of yourself and at Celtic Park you have the chance to salvage some credibility with a decent performance.