The first Glasgow Derby between Celtic and Rangers wasn’t the usual goalfest fans have seen play between Celtic and Rangers over the last few seasons.
Celtic’s draw with Rangers keeps the six-point gap to the Ibrox club intact as Brendan Rodgers now looks forward a two-week international break.
The Celtic manager will be looking to add a couple of fresh faces to his squad before transfer deadline day ends tomorrow night.
And after today’s performance, Celtic need them. The Ibrox stalemate offered nothing in terms of attacking endeavour and Rodgers has delivered his verdict on the Glasgow Derby draw with Rangers.
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Brendan Rodgers explains why Celtic weren’t at their best vs Rangers
The Celtic manager was clearly unhappy at his team’s performance despite listing off what was ‘positive’ about the Ibrox draw.
Rodgers told BBC Radio Scotland, “I don’t think we had any shots against us on goal. So coming to Ibrox, that’s always a positive.
“But our offensive game is nowhere near the level that I would like it to be at. So yeah, it wasn’t a great watch. And sometimes they never are these games.
“They can be so that can be so tense and but I thought it was a game that lacked quality”.
Brendan Rodgers slams Celtic’s style of play in draw vs Rangers
The 0-0 draw was probably one of the worst derby performances by Celtic for a long time.
Celtic struggled to break down a Rangers side who have allowed teams like Alloa and Viktoria Plzen to score against them.
And Rodgers wasn’t happy as he continued, “I think there’s a number of reasons [for the poor performance].
“I think we’ve obviously lost players that connected the game for us and, and of course, when you go through a spell of games where you’re not scoring, then it can affect the other guys, and they don’t quite make the forward pass, and they play the safe pass.
“I think that creativity has obviously come out of the team, and we need to find those connections again, obviously Kieran and these guys coming in, they play differently to what we’ve had before, and we’ve also, to get other players to reintroduce into so I’m fairly confident that that we will improve and but definitely we have to, because it’s that that is not the Celtic way of playing.”
It was an insipid attacking performance from a Celtic side who look a shadow of the team who took Bayern Munich to within a minute of extra-time in last season’s Champions League.
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