“We are fighting for the pride of our team and for our supporters,” Brendan Rodgers

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·3. Mai 2025

“We are fighting for the pride of our team and for our supporters,” Brendan Rodgers

Brendan Rodgers yesterday explained what winning tomorrow’s Glasgow Derby at Ibrox against theRangers means to his players and himself and explained Celtic’s ‘comfortable’ weakness in the last few games against simply the second best team in Scottish football this season…

Brendan Rodgers. Celtic Champions 2025. Dundee United v Celtic, 26 April 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

“This is a game that is all about pride and as I said we’ve proved our point over the course of this season in terms of our performance level, consistency,” the Celtic manager said at yesterday’s pre-match media conference at Lennoxtown.

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Celtic Champions 2025. Dundee United v Celtic, 26 April 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

“I think the challenge in these games is that we’ve been so comfortable going into the game and I felt that has really disrupted our mindset. When it was win or bust in the cup final we won it, because that’s it, these games we’ve been so comfortable and even though you’re pushing, I know what these games mean to supporters and what it means to myself and the club,” Rodgers said.

‘There’s maybe a subconscious thing there’

He added: “It just can be that little bit in the back of the mind that you’re 13 points clear or 16 points clear and so that has taken a fraction of an edge off that you don’t want but there’s maybe a subconscious thing there.

Celtic Champions 2025. Dundee United v Celtic, 26 April 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

‘We are fighting for the pride of our team and also for our supporters’

“But this year, this is our last game, we are fighting for the pride of our team and also for our supporters because we lost the last game at Ibrox, deservedly so. We shouldn’t have lost the game at home but we did and we have to make that right in the last game.”

Celtic have never lost three games in a row to theRangers at any time since the Glasgow Derby fixture started away back in February 2015. 2000 Celtic supporters will be the Ibrox tomorrow and will make their presence felt proclaiming Celtic as Champions and the finest team in Scotland. They’ll be expecting Celtic to go about piling on the agony, putting on the style.

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers celebrates the title win. Dundee United 0-5 Celtic at Tannadice Park on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

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