Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Brendan's Celtic versus Ange's Celtic.. who would win? I have to say, I never wanted BR back but he has shown his ability to adapt unlike Ange...so I'd have to go for BR!

 

So disappointed with him tonight..

 

Another clean sheet, brilliant.

 

It was a draw away from home.

 

Is that where we're at?

Most winnable away game you'll ever see. A rank rotten outfit decimated by injuries and in dreadful form under a new coach who hasn't got a clue..

Yet we played that out from minute 1 cautiously to no get beat..

 

Our form has fell off since the Kilmarnock game.

There's been a couple of good performances in there (First half against Ross County, second half against Hearts) and we're still winning games (and the 2 draws in Europe are far from the end of the world) but the overall performance has definitely went down, won't go as far as saying we've fallen off a cliff, but it is noticeable.

Cup final would be a good time for us to bring back the early season form we've been used to.

 

Dare say he's not happy with that performance at all.

Seemed like we were all primed for an away win in Europe.

 

In all honesty we've had more winnable games than this.

I expected better, but we got a positive result away from home. That's a change of pace. Lets see where it takes us.

 

As others have said, we have generally been off it since Leipzig.
Brugge and CZ particularly poor.
Sunday perfect opportunity to get back on track.

 

our schedule has been relentless. 3 games in 6 days, 2 away from home. A nice little rest before Sunday and we’ll be back firing again.

 

His tactical changes at HT vs Brugge earned us a point but he cost us two tonight.

Slightly worrying that that's two games in a row we've created next to nothing, albeit Brugge were a good side.

 

Still in Europe after Christmas

 

The wide men were far far too wide tonight..

Kyogo was then pretty isolated and when we did have the occasional midfielder breaking inside, there was no one really there. I'll never watch any of that back but there was so many times tonight where I thought they looked like they had a man or 2 more than us everytime we got in to their half..

There was barely any runners beyond. So frustrating..

 

Maybe that means they weren't that bad a team though. They had a game plan and limited us to only a few chances.

 

They did have a game plan the same one we face against Aberdeen and the likes. They practically parked the bus for large spells of the game and tried to play on the counter attack. Yes they probably had a couple of players well above the Aberdeen level but a lot of their team tonight were drafted in and stuck to their task fair play to them but the fact we didn’t create much against that says a lot about our level.

Parking the bus low block is the most basic form of football and forcing us wide. We couldn’t come up with an answer or make one of our few moments count.

 

I don't know much about the team the fielded tonight but I would think they were all above Aberdeen level tbh. That's the point I'm making mate, them playing that way is obviously way more difficult to break down that our normal SPL opponents. I thought they nullified our wide players pretty well, credit to them for that.

We didn't play well, absolutely, but some folk are going way OTT with the criticism. I'm no suggesting they're world beaters but I don't think they're as * a team as some are making out.

 

We're in December, played 6 CL games lost 1, unbeaten domestically..

Can't be too critical.

 

Aye think a few players have got a bit carried away with themselves since the Leipzig game tbh