Celtic lost 2-0 at Dens Park yesterday afternoon as Hearts finished the weekend with a five points advantage to take into next Sunday’s match against Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic side at Tynecastle…
After what was a truly dreadful Celtic performance Brendan Rodgers spoke to the Sky Sports, BBC Scotland and Celtic TV. Watch the videos from those interviews plus read all the quotes from the Celtic manager’s post match media conference after his first ever defeat at Dens Park…
Q: Brendan, can you just talk us through that performance and the result for your team today?
Brendan Rodgers: “Well, as you can imagine, I’m a bitterly disappointed with that. We lose the goal, and sometimes that can happen from a set-piece where you get blocked off, but we still had a lot of time left in the game and just didn’t really have the craft or the quality in the final third to break that team down.”
Q: Give credit to Dundee. Once they get the goal, they defend well.
Brendan Rodgers: “The second goal is poor from our perspective. We get down on a counter-attack just before half-time, but we had enough of the ball and arriving in the areas often enough, but we just failed to show that better quality that allows you to get the goals that you need, and that’s where we’ve suffered up until now.”
Q: Why do you think that is, Brendan? Why do you think you failed with that quality in the final third today?
Brendan Rodgers: “We’ve had it over a number of games, but we just haven’t scored and been able to make that pass or make the wrong decisions. So, yes, there are a number of reasons why, but I need to find the solutions in order for us to get scoring goals again.”
‘It’s nothing to do with the protest. We have to be better’
Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers after his side’s defeat to Dundee ⤵️#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/AKGncb7H9z
— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) October 19, 2025
Q: What have you said to the players at full-time in the changing room?
Brendan Rodgers: “I just said that this is where you really have to be a man. Because at Celtic it’s great from the outside when you look in and you’re winning trophies and playing great football, but you’ve got to deal with pressure. Also the result and performance today is not good enough. It’s not acceptable for Celtic. They’ve come here a number of times, a number of years, and that today is not their level. So we have to find it.
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What a load of garbage from Rodgers!
Saying he accepts responsibility for the defeat “after” the game when he just spent a full news conference stating how he was expected to drive a Honda Civic like a Ferrari?
This constant gamesmanship from Rodgers is gettIng to be embarrassing!
As a top manager, he’s lost his edge, and now all he has in his armoury seems to be excuses. Next weekend we will effectively lose the league to Hearts. Credit to Hearts. They are on a great run of their own, playing with confidence and unlike us, have fans who really support their team and club. REAL FANS.
They also have a manager who is more likely to talk to his board, not backstab them like Rodgers has been doing since he came back.
You can blame the Celtic board all you like, but how can you be expected to back a manager who acts as stupidly as Rodgers did on the weekend? Then he claims he’s open to staying on after his contract expires!
Rodgers is a liar! He proved it in 2019, and he’s doing it to us all over again!
But this time, shame on US!
Rodgers doesn’t take responsibility for his own failings, especially when he is currently doing nothing more than playing the blame game at present imo?
Been allowed to get away with it since the summer window, yet what is the excuse before then?
All year now, we haven’t been able to win any of our bigger matches, now we are struggling badly within the SPFL.
The decline is alarming, and not even 1 player on show for ourselves, able to get close to producing what they are capable of doing?
To much emphasis been placed upon blaming the board, where it’s becoming clearer in each passing week, that the biggest culprit for the decline is within our manager imo.
Change will happen, when Rodgers is no longer having any influence whatsoever, and believe it will be for the better for ourselves at this stage also imo.
Always felt this run of 7 games could determine as to what should happen regarding Rodgers. After yet another shitshow again yesterday, and no sign of players actually playing for Rodgers, then just how much longer can we wait, in the hope of things actually turning around with Rodgers calling the shots?
Personally given up listening to his bullshit a long time ago.
If the board have got anything about them, then think we will possibly need Change by the end of the next international break at the latest imo?
Don’t believe Rodgers any longer can get anything more from our team sadly.
Whatever has or is going on within the background has become way to toxic to be resolved, without casualties in positions of power taking place.
In the footballing world, that starts with a manager.
The credit Rodgers had built up is eroding rapidly at this stage, to the degree that I’m becoming more convinced that Rodgers has no intentions of putting right what he has helped to dismantle within the club at present.
I don’t believe Rodgers should be the only casualty within his position either, but the process of changes will possibly have to start with him.
There was always going to be a potential rebuilding of the squad next summer in the offering.
No longer do I believe that we can wait that long, when we still haven’t managed to even get our season started yet. And this on the back of not able to get the majority of our squad motivated to clinch another treble last season.
The decline has been ongoing for way too long now at this stage, to continue to do nothing about trying to resolve matters.
And that will always be upon the field of play within a football club, where the first changes are required.