{"id":25153,"date":"2025-08-26T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25153\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:30:09","slug":"manufacture-your-own-stress-brendan-rodgers-says-celtic-must-decide-what-way-we-want-to-go-after-kairat-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25153\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Manufacture your own stress’ – Brendan Rodgers says Celtic ‘must decide what way we want to go’ after Kairat disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celtic were woeful as they crashed out of the Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kairat Almaty \u2013 ranked 311th in the UEFA club coefficient leaderboard \u2013 sent the Hoops into the Europa League league phase after a penalty shootout victory in Kazakhstan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After drawing 0-0 in the first leg, Celtic<\/a> yet again could not break down Kairat, this time after 120 minutes of painful football.<\/p>\n

Kairat were poor, but they were organised and shut a lousy Celtic out. The Bhoys then missed three penalties in the shootout to tumble out of the Champions League<\/a> and wave goodbye to a guaranteed \u00a340m.<\/p>\n

So what did Brendan Rodgers<\/a> have to say at his post-match press conference?<\/p>\n

\"BrendanPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesRodgers addresses Celtic\u2019s defeat to Kairat Almaty<\/p>\n

Rodgers was quick to get his media duties out of the way after watching a horrendous game of football that saw Celtic lose in embarrassing fashion.<\/p>\n

Fans are livid because the Bhoys failed to sign key replacements<\/a> for the likes of Kyogo, Jota and Nicolas Kuhn for this play-off tie.<\/p>\n

So asked if the defeat was self-inflicted because the club failed to replace important stars in time for the tie, Rodgers sighed before saying: \u201cLook, it\u2019s very frustrating.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know where we want to get to. Last year, as I say, the strides I thought we took, we really had to build on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing you want to do in football is manufacture your own stress, that\u2019s what you don\u2019t want to be doing. But I think all we can do now is, we have to look at where we\u2019re at as a football club and decide what way we want to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at this moment in time, we can still have a very good season. You know, some will say we deserve to be in the Europa League this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for me, we go away with this group of players, see what the remaining days in the window bring, and then we\u2019ve got a really big game at the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers was then asked how dropping into the Europa League could impact transfers over the next few days until the deadline.<\/p>\n

He simply replied: \u201cI haven\u2019t a clue. I really don\u2019t know, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers has to take responsibility for Kairat horror show<\/p>\n

It\u2019s completely understandable that Celtic fans direct most of their anger at the club\u2019s board, because they are the people who get transfers over the line.<\/p>\n

But Rodgers still has a squad at his disposal who should be beating Kairat Almaty from Kazakhstan over two legs of football.<\/p>\n

Celtic drew 0-0 after 120 minutes of dreary football in the second leg, but the damage was ultimately done in the first leg at Parkhead.<\/p>\n

To draw 0-0 at home to Kairat was the killer and Rodgers has to own up and admit he\u2019s completely underperformed as a manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic were woeful as they crashed out of the Champions League. Kairat Almaty \u2013 ranked 311th in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1191,9571,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-25153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brendan-rodgers","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153","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=25153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}