Manager: It's been a positive night in many ways

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·30 October 2024

Manager: It's been a positive night in many ways

The Celts’ excellent start to the season has continued with a good win over Dundee at Celtic Park tonight (Wednesday).

It took until the hour mark for the deadlock to be broken after 60 minutes of domination from the Hoops.

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The opening goal came from in-form goalscorer Alistair Johnston who opened his account for the season on Sunday at Fir Park, and added to his tally tonight at Paradise.

Speaking to Celtic TV after tonight’s match, Hoops boss Brendan Rodgers said he was pleased with how his team performed and felt that it could have been even better for his side.

“It was a good win for us,” he said. “A positive night in many ways.

“We win the game, which is important. I think we can have a lot more comfort in the game if we take the two early chances.

'Going in to the second half, our ambition was good, we make the changes and Ali comes in and does what he’s been doing.'

“He gets the goal and then that it opens it up for us.

“So a very pleasing night and a clean sheet. We can play better but I understand maybe why we didn’t with so many changes.”

Brendan made six changes to his starting XI for tonight’s match from the team that started against Motherwell at the weekend, and speaking about the importance of squad rotation, the Celts’ boss added: “It’s important to make those changes, otherwise with the guys playing so many games, you lose that energy.

“Especially in our next two games in particular which are going to be really intense games both physically and mentally.

“We’ve come through it really well, players have got that little bit of recovery time, players that will be needed throughout the season have had some game time, we win the game, our support was great and we move on to the next one now.”