{"id":142450,"date":"2025-10-24T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:48:08","slug":"brendan-rodgers-makes-huge-liam-scales-claim-after-celtic-win-vs-sturm-graz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142450\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers makes huge Liam Scales claim after Celtic win vs Sturm Graz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celtic are back to winning ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s fixture against Sturm Graz felt like a must-win for Brendan Rodgers\u2019<\/a> side in their Europa League<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t get off to an ideal start \u2013 when Tomi Horvat opened the scoring with a stunning hit, the Celtic Park<\/a> crowd was fearing the worst.<\/p>\n

But in the end, the Hoops created enough chances to win three games. The two goals came in rapid succession, courtesy of Liam Scales<\/a> and Benjamin Nygren.<\/a><\/p>\n

The former has been touted as one of Celtic\u2019s best performers this season<\/a> \u2013 and manager Rodgers joined in on the praise after the match.<\/p>\n

Brendan Rodgers on Celtic\u2019s Liam Scales vs Sturm Graz<\/p>\n

It was a case of cometh the hour, cometh the man for the Hoops when Scales opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

The Ireland defender opened up his left foot at the perfect time when Colby Donovan<\/a> helped the ball onto him.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Ex-Celtic kid Rocco Vata reveals telling-off from dad Rudi that he clamped with Championship winner<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BrendanPhoto by ANDY BUCHANAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

But his performances in general were singled out by his manager after the match.<\/p>\n

Scales was brought to Celtic Park under Ange Postecoglou,<\/a> and after Rodgers\u2019 arrival, his Celtic career was seen as over after a loan move to Aberdeen.<\/p>\n

But Rodgers put him in the starting XI, and since then, he\u2019s barely been out of it.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the match, Rodgers said: \u201cHe\u2019s been my most consistent player in all my time here. He\u2019s been absolutely fantastic. He\u2019s been a real robust stalwart for the team; you see how strong he was tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can score goals, and I said before that we need everyone to be contributing to goals, but the goal comes from us playing at the tempo. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe get the ball in, we get it going quickly, and then he makes the finish look a lot easier than it was. I thought he was one of our real outstanding players tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

A huge statement indeed from the Parkhead boss. <\/p>\n

Liam Scales\u2019 numbers at Celtic<\/p>\n

Scales has gone from being an outcast at Celtic to making over 100 appearances. He was rewarded with a long-term contract after his breakthrough season in 2024.<\/p>\n

His goal on Thursday was his eighth in Hoops \u2013 and he has picked up six medals across four seasons at Paradise.<\/p>\n

Almost all of his Celtic appearances have come alongside Cameron Carter-Vickers<\/a> \u2013 Auston Trusty<\/a> has been unable to displace him despite being brought in for a huge price.<\/p>\n

And with Scales now a full international for his country, the 27-year-old owes a lot of it to Rodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic are back to winning ways. Thursday\u2019s fixture against Sturm Graz felt like a must-win for Brendan Rodgers\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,1191,20992,18,42433,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,21083,15,16,5,83701,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-brendan-rodgers","11":"tag-celtic","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-europa-league","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-liam-scales","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-sturm-graz","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115428518257095995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}