Brendan Rodgers spoke to the media at Lennoxtown earlier today ahead of tomorrow evening’s match in Paisley against St Mirren in the Scottish Premiership…
The manager talked about the away ticket allocation being restored for the Glasgow Derby and also confirmed that Greg Taylor is now a dad with his wife icing birth to their daughter earlier in the week! Congratulations to the Taylor family on their new arrival!
Q: Brendan, how’s the squad looking heading into tomorrow’s game?
Brendan Rodgers: “Yeah, pretty much as we’ve been. Obviously, Greg Taylor will come back into the squad. So yeah, apart from that, it’ll be the same.”
Q: It’s quite a tough venue going away to St Mirren, but a game you handled pretty well away from home at the start of the season?
Brendan Rodgers: “Yeah, we were very good. And you have to be, because Stephen’s an outstanding coach and manager. His teams are very clear in how they play, they understand their roles, they make it really difficult for you. They press the game really well, they’re very coordinated when they haven’t got it. Then when they do, they play a direct game, they get it up, they get it wide, they get crosses in the box.
“So it really challenges you. But I felt the game earlier on in the season, we managed that aspect of it really well. You just have to do all the dirty bits of the game really well, all the stuff that doesn’t get a lot of attention. We did that really, really well. The running was hard, we counter-pressed the game well and that gave us a great foundation to play our football.”
Q: It might be a slightly different task now than it was in August, just given the fact that the pitch maybe isn’t as in good condition, Stephen Robinson said this morning that it might be a bit of a leveller?
Brendan Rodgers: “I’m sure it will be. I’m sure it will be. But listen, we’ve gone to pitches before and they haven’t been great and we’ve played so many good football on them. So listen, it won’t be an excuse if we have to deal with the conditions. Ideally we’d all want to have really good pitches for the quality of the game. But however it is, we will deal with it.
