Fifth in five games today. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cq8k91vx3j2t - at this point, I think this is the worst Idah will be in his career - he'll either plateau at being a talented, but somewhat streaky forward at a reasonably high level, or he'll take another step up and become a genuine star. Remember, it's only in the last season and a half where he's been given a proper chance in terms of consistent time and I would call it a qualified success for him
He could be either. It is crazy but he could be class or he could be just unreliable and then he won't receive game time at a certain level and end up moving downwards for regular minutes. I hope for the better. The range is wide.Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
Only 3 of the golden boot
You know the other players get to score as well, yeah?
He's four off the top of the charts still. Which is a 25-year-old who'd never started a game higher than League Two before this season.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/s...ip/top-scorersYou know the other players get to score as well, yeah?
He's four off the top of the charts still. Which is a 25-year-old who'd never started a game higher than League Two before this season.
BBC has Dalby on 11 and Idah on 8, transfermarkt too...
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/scot...wettbewerb/SC1
Hmmm - soccer way has him on 7. Maybe it hasn't updated for today's game
He's on 8 now.
As the only senior striker at the best team in the league by a mile he really should be going on to win that from here. I'm just not sure it would be that much of an achievement. Potentially his biggest challenge will end up being from his own teammates.
FWIW, with 13 goals he's Celtic third top scorer this season, behind Maeda(22) and Kuhn(17)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E...nces_and_goals
if he could get penalties off Engels he'd be doing well. Engels has scored 8 out of 9 this season, missing against Young Boys.
Celtic won 17 penalties last season for comparison.
Have Celtic decided that playing no striker at all is preferable to playing Idah tonight or am I misreading things?
I can understand the logic of playing Maeda from the start when you just want to press as much as possible and keep it tight. Idah will most likely come on for last 30
Its really not that complicated!!!
Poor yesterday against Hibs - taken off at half-time with the side 2-0 down.
Has built up a bit of credit in the last few weeks in fairness. Be interesting to see how he responds though.
Seems to polarise views among Celtic fans as much as here if their forum is anything to go by. He's either "big man" or a useless lump; there's little enough middle ground.
It's possible to be both of those things at the same time, of course!
Not denying Idah should be criticised for his performance on Saturday but some of the X comments I read included "Hatate is pish, get rid of him..." type thing. You'd really wonder about some of these posters.
But yes, he can't afford to be ineffective again for much longer.
No chance to make amends this evening - starts on the bench against Aberdeen tonight.
A win would confirm Champions League football for next season - with 10 games still to go.
Got half an hour but drew another blank even though Celtic were banging them in. He has only scored three goals in his last 17 domestic games now, despite the poor standard of opposition in Scotland.
I actually think he looked really sharp though, much more dynamic than against Hibs. And yet again Celtic scored from a nice square ball across the box. Maeda was the beneficiary with Idah much further wide of him, more in Maeda's natural position. Not a stick to beat Idah with tbh. It could just as easily have been his, as could Maeda's first.
He scored 3 in the Champions League including 2 at Villa, probably the second best team they've faced all seson.
Use of words matter. Is he rubbish or is he a real a CL quality CF? Probably neither.
Celtic like to play 3 of Idah, Jota, Kuhn and Maeda and of those I don't think Idah can complain about not being picked after the Hibs showing.
More worrying maybe was that Kenny wasn't given any minutes despite the outcome being wrapped up at HT. Probably good management by Rodgers not to "punish" Idah too harshly for Hibs though. The half-time hook and the demotion to the bench was enough.
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I don't think Kenny has a hope in hell long term at Celtic to be honest. He's filling a gap on the bench until the end of the season and then he'll be gone.
He's 5th choice at best, don't blame him for taking the chance of being around the 1st team for 6 months thou. I hope he gets a run at some stage and scores, I think for Celtic's sake when things are wrapped up he will get minutes even if it's purely to try and up his sale value. The longer it goes without regular minutes the slimmer even that gets I suppose. Right after coming back and he was fit/in great form when he got that debut assist was the time if it was likely to come.
Back in the starting lineup today, but another blank despite Celtic scoring five again. (Three after he'd been subbed off)
Former Drog Killian Phillips on the mark for St Mirren
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