Brendan Rodgers believes Celtic’s 5-1 Champions League thrashing of Slovan Bratislava was “vindication” for the board who backed him closely within the switch window.
Summer season signings Arne Engels and Adam Idah, who price the membership a mixed £20.5m in the summertime, each netted as Celtic earned their first opening-game victory within the competitors.
“The opposite evening was an amazing vindication for everybody,” mentioned Rodgers forward of Sunday’s League Cup tie towards Championship aspect Falkirk.
Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers believes Daizen Maeda’s urgent is one of the best on this planet as he analyses their Champions League win over Slovan Bratislava
“For the board and the cash they’ve spent, they are going to have loved watching the workforce.
“For the supporters watching the sport, they noticed the verve within the workforce, the dynamism, the attacking soccer.
“They noticed all the things they might need within the workforce. For the gamers themselves, they had been on the pitch doing a superb job.
“They had been combating for the workforce, combating for his or her membership and producing nice soccer which is the demand right here.
“So I believe everybody was vindicated.”
Rodgers appears forward to going through outdated colleague John McGlynn and responds to some excessive reward from the Falkirk boss
Alistair Johnston, who performed 77 minutes towards Bratislava, missed coaching on Friday with Rodgers hinting there could possibly be workforce modifications for the go to of Falkirk.
“We have got a couple of gamers with niggles so we are going to take a look at that and assess that by finish of play tomorrow (Saturday). We can’t take any dangers with one or two,” he added.
“It was the second day of restoration as effectively so there was a gaggle of the gamers out recovering and a gaggle coaching laborious after which one or two inside simply making additional restoration inside fairly than out.”
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