Thought he was very good today, played with a swagger. His movement was very good all game
Its really not that complicated!!!
Since Kyogo left he seems to have a new found confidence and with Celtic not signing a striker yesterday, he should get more starts.
Yes, a big opportunity for him now. Anything in the Champions League is a bonus given the draw but he needs to go on a goalscoring run domestically for the rest of the season.
Another goal, banger of a finish and although missed the first shot, it was his run that made it possible. I was starting to think that maybe he struggles against teams that park the bus...
I really hope this is all the beginning of a magic run of games for him
The 1st shot itself was good ingenuity I thought, instead of swiping with his left foot I think the way he stabbed at it with his right caught the keeper off guard a bitOriginally Posted by rebelmusic
Its really not that complicated!!!
Only 4 off the golden boot
Great to see, bought himself some breathing space for the next while, but a real chance to go on the best scoring run of his life now.
He's now scored as many goals for Celtic as he has throughout the rest of his short career.
21 goals for Celtic
17 goals for Norwich
4 goals for Ireland
Idah was replaced by Johnny Kenny tonight who now seems to be the main back up for rest of season..... I think Idah will be playing a lot, Kenny looked miles off it I thought.
Its really not that complicated!!!
I think it's a Championship club in the cup up next, so I hope Kenny gets a start, obviously going to be a big ask for him to make an impact now that the momentum from his excellent run in Europe is gone, has played about half an hours football in 6/7 weeks which wouldn't help.
Even taking account of it being the SPL, I would say every team in that league is arguably stronger than the three teams Shamrock Rovers beat in the Conference League. Certainly two of them anyway. So any minutes Kenny gets will be a good test for him to see if he has much or any potential at that level.
Very hard to compare, but I just checked the table and realized Hearts didn't even make it in to the top 24, I had just assumed they'd get through, the did have an awful start to the season thou tbf. Neither did the Turkish lads who squeezed past Pats and just signed Festy. Kenny scoring against Rapid definitely indicates he can finish chances against SPL level teams, his finishing was one of his weaknesses but really improved in his last 6 months. Would definitely worry about his lack of game time, and how he will really need to deliver in cameo's if he's to get anywhere, he won't get nearly as many chances as Idah has gotten to find a spot.
Vikingur who Rovers beat in the CL and Kenny scored twice against managed to come 19th in the end which is very impressive for them, would have seen them as a weaker side than the Breidablik ones Rovers got swept away by a few years ago.
Back on the bench today. Slightly surprised by that - I know it's only a home Cup game against second tier Raith, but you'd think an ideal game for Idah if he seems to be a bit of a confidence player.
That said, he can always come on after an hour of course
He's their main striker now with Kyogo gone, so he'll start most games unless he's absolutely disastrous. So it makes sense to rest him against Raith I think. I think it's telling though that resting him didn't involve starting Kenny.
Celtic have a huge game midweek against Bayern Munich, probably rested for that
Ah yeah, I'm only slightly surprised like - just the idea of keeping a run going if confidence is such an issue for him.
On Kenny, it wouldn't surprise me if Celtic weren't too worried about replacing Kyogo in the transfer window. Bit of a risk - but the league is close to won (13 points clear with 13 games to go) and they're not going to beat Bayern, so why waste money on a forward now when you can just buy one in the summer instead?
Jota prefers to play left side and Maeda is very comfortable in the middle, and suspended for the Bayern home leg. So there’s cover in both wide and central positions and it made sense to rest Idah.
Scales captain for last 30. Nice move.
Maeda has had his suspension reduced to a one match ban so is now free to play against Bayern. It’ll be interesting to see which 3 of Idah, Maeda, Kuhn and Jota start, and where.
Maybe Rodgers would have rested Maeda in the last game, if he knew that he would be available for this game !
Aside from the moment where he was a bit late arriving into the box for a slick Celtic counter (Ronnie remarked on it), I thought Idah did ok for the most part considering he was up against one of the best CBs in the world. He won a few duels, laid it off and drew Upamecano out a couple of times allowing Celtic to get in behind.
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