{"id":51772,"date":"2025-04-26T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51772\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:30:09","slug":"brendan-rodgers-drops-hampden-goal-hero-as-celtic-boss-makes-two-big-tannadice-calls-predicted-xi-vs-dundee-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51772\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers drops Hampden goal hero as Celtic boss makes two big Tannadice calls, predicted XI vs Dundee United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brendan Rodgers faces his biggest game of the season at Dundee United this afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Celtic manager<\/a> is on the brink of creating more history at Parkhead<\/a> if he gets the Tannadice point he needs to wrap up the club\u2019s fourth title in a row.<\/p>\n

After Celtic hammered St Johnstone<\/a> in the Scottish Cup last weekend, Rodgers<\/a> has a tough choice to make ahead of the title-winning game in Tannadice today.<\/p>\n

There is an argument to be made that Rodgers should stick with the same Celtic starting XI<\/a> that trounced the Perth club at Hampden but the Hoops boss does make one change as 67 Hail Hail<\/strong> name the predicted XI to face Dundee United.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesAdam Idah drops out as Brendan Rodgers makes big Celtic call vs Dundee United<\/p>\n

Adam Idah<\/a> has come in for some over-the-top criticism for his form at Celtic<\/a> this season. The big Irishman has scored more goals this year than at any other point in his entire career.<\/p>\n

However, with Celtic looking to wrap up the title, early goals will help get the title party started and that is why Idah drops to the bench as fans will want to see the Hoops come out the traps.<\/p>\n

\"CelticCredit: GRV Media for 67 Hail Hail<\/p>\n

Only one change to the starting XI as Daizen Maeda starts in the now-familiar striker role with Forrest getting the opportunity to score that elusive record-breaking goal on the right wing.<\/p>\n

Jota starts on the left wing as Rodgers looks to the Portuguese to unlock the Tannadice defence to get the title over the line.<\/p>\n

Daizen Maeda, James Forrest & Jota\u2019s Celtic stats vs Dundee United<\/p>\n

Jota and Maeda are undoubtedly two of Celtic\u2019s most dangerous players, but how do their numbers stack up against the Tayside club?<\/p>\n

Here, 67 Hail Hail<\/strong> takes a look.<\/p>\n\nrecord vs Dundee United<\/td>\nPlayed<\/td>\nWon<\/td>\nDraw<\/td>\nLost<\/td>\nGoals<\/td>\nAssist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDaizen Maeda<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJota<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJames Forrest<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

With goals and assists created by all three Celtic stars at Tannadice, fans will look to the trio to help kick off the title-winning celebrations at full time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers faces his biggest game of the season at Dundee United this afternoon. The Celtic manager is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,27778,1638,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-predicted-xi","10":"tag-scottish-premiership","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114403568958790874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}