Q: Did everyone else come through without injury? No other issues for you?
Brendan Rodgers: “No, I don’t think so. I’ll find out in the morning, but I think everyone’s come through really well. We were able to manage the group and the players getting game time, and yes, it’s good for us.”
The Celtic Board. Partick Thistle v Celtic. Premier Sports League Cup. Sunday 21 September. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: After the disappointment of not reaching the Champions League, how excited are you about getting the Europa League campaign underway?
Brendan Rodgers: “Yes, any European competition, of course, is a great honour to be in. We always want to be in the Champions League. That’s where I believe the club should be. But if we’re not there, then, of course, we embrace this competition and we’re excited by this competition and how far we can go in it.”
Q: Do you have anything to say to the players about what they should be achieving in this competition?
Brendan Rodgers: “No, no, no. It’s just a game at a time. We’ve obviously got eight good but tough fixtures. Then we’ll see where we’re are at the end of that.”
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Decent performance yesterday, on another poor pitch, so exciting prospect of what this team of ours, to see what can actually be produced in the next 2 games on better playing surfaces.
The structure of the squad is completed now by the looks of things. Hopefully the one dimensional look, doesn’t become an issue, where it’s so obvious what our gameplan will be for every game, with starting 11, and subs used in games.
The fiasco over the summer, I still don’t believe is totally finalised either, especially as only 3 changes are allowed in January to our European squad, which I still believe that potentially has more than 3 at present, who could be looking at there futures elsewhere from ourselves.
Got time now, over the challenges ahead over the next few months now, so have to see what develops regarding that situation. At least when jota returns, it could provide a better balance in our attacking options, especially as we could look unbalanced with our right side in operation?
Big few months for yang, who even if quite enough yesterday, still had big moments within the game. Our style of play involves big moments within it, plenty produced yesterday, and delighted to see so many contributing to those big moments, as that should improve confidence going forward for ourselves imo.
Would like to think that yesterday, was eventually the kick start of our season, been a while in waiting, but eventually achieved by the looks of things.
Whether that’s good or enough, remains an answer in waiting, but confidence growing after yesterday, for myself anyway.