Yang celebrates. St Mirren v Celtic, Scottish Premiership, Saturday 1st March 2025. Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: Does it feel like a big night? It’s now three wins from a title. Does it feel like a big night tonight?
Brendan Rodgers: “Well, we always knew that this was going to be a tough place to come. And we can only look after our own selves. I’m just so happy for the players that they’ve come through what I mentioned a few months ago was going to be a really, really busy period of intensity, of runs. And I think that’s just a little bit that we’ll get back now. Because for me, that just a little bit of freshness. As I said to the players, the freshness in our defending is just a fraction off it. Why? Because we’ve played so many games and the players physically, mentally, they’re pushing themselves to the limit. And when you come up against teams like here, you know, great free kick by Declan John, wonderful free kick. And then obviously the second one, they get a wee bit of good fortune. So that’s the only thing that’s, if I’m being super critical, we need to just get back. But we’ll get that because now we can recover better. We can do some work on that on the training field. And then going forward, really, with one game a week, apart from probably the last week, we’ll be right there in our pressing and offensive play, which is still at such a high level.”
Auston Trusty gets treatment for a head-knock. St Mirren v Celtic, Scottish Premiership, Saturday 1st March 2025. Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: How’s Auston Trusty?
Brendan Rodgers: “He had five stitches, so he’ll be okay.”
Yang score but it’s offside. St Mirren v Celtic, Scottish Premiership, Saturday 1st March 2025. Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
🗣️ I’ve spoken to our interpreter to make sure she can stay in the country.”
Brendan Rodgers joked he hoped Yang Hyun-jun’s girlfriend makes her stay in Scotland longer, if it keeps the winger in a ‘good feeling’ following his double in the 5-2 win over St Mirren.#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/I6Mnjg9umX
— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) March 1, 2025
The way this season seems to be playing out, is a greater factor developing for managers to contend with.
That factor looks like the dependency factor against the rotational factor regarding players imo?
The greater need of getting 2 players in position for each position, is starting to become a bigger factor within todays game.
A massive factor on show yesterday, with kuhn and yang.
A huge dependency upon kuhn in the position earlier in the season, with yang not really considered as the suitable replacement.
Not so much the case, within a number of games recently, and very much needed also.
Just one example on show yesterday, but also a few more to be considered also, throughout the squad?
Is this potentially starting to develop into a massive factor within today’s game with the overloaded footballing calendar?
Starting to think so myself?