{"id":91021,"date":"2025-10-19T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91021\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:58:07","slug":"you-cant-drive-a-honda-civic-like-a-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91021\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t drive a Honda Civic like a Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan Rodgers spoke about finding Ferrari speed in a Honda Civic after Celtic suffered their first defeat away to Dundee<\/a> in 37 years in Sunday’s 2-0 William Hill Premiership match.<\/p>\n

In their on-going protest against the Parkhead board \u2013 part of which was down to a perceived poor summer transfer window \u2013 travelling fans immediately disrupted the game by throwing dozens of balls on to the pitch.<\/p>\n

When the delay ended, Dundee defender Clark Robertson headed in from a corner in the 17th minute before defender Cameron Carter-Vickers put through his own goal just before the break to confirm Celtic\u2019s first loss at Dens Park since 1988.<\/p>\n

Celtic lost Kyogo Furuhashi in January and Adam Idah and Nicolas Kuhn in the summer and Rodgers previously expressed dissatisfaction with the way the most recent transfer window transpired.<\/p>\n

He said: “Listen, it\u2019s not all linear and all smooth right the way through the season. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

“I think the challenge from the summer, now leading into here, where we lost a lot of firepower, a lot of goals out on the team.<\/p>\n

“And there\u2019s no way you\u2019ll go into a race and be given the keys to a Honda Civic and say, ‘I want you to drive it like a Ferrari\u2019. It\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n

“So until something changes, I have to find the solutions. Because like I said, goals, speed, everything has come out of the team and we need to find a way to be better.<\/p>\n

“It was clear in the summer, but it\u2019s really the past now. There\u2019s nothing we can do about it.<\/p>\n

“We had the opportunities to do what we needed to do. It didn\u2019t happen, so now it\u2019s finding ways, whether it\u2019s 4-3-3, whether it\u2019s 3-4-3, whether it\u2019s 3-5-2. We\u2019re trying to look at all these different permutations within the team.”<\/p>\n

\"DUNDEE,
\nCeltic have slipped five points behind leaders Hearts<\/p>\n

The Hoops remain five points behind leaders Hearts \u2013 whom they play at Tynecastle next weekend \u2013 following the Europa League tie against Sturm Graz on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Rodgers told his players that they need to stand up and be counted.<\/p>\n

He added: “I just said that this is where you really have to be a man, because playing for Celtic is great from the outside when you look in and you\u2019re winning trophies and playing great football \u2013 but you\u2019ve got to deal with pressure.<\/p>\n

“Also, the result and performance today wasn\u2019t good enough. It\u2019s not acceptable for Celtic.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve come here a number of times, a number of years and that today is not the level, so we have to find it.”<\/p>\n

Dundee boss Steven Pressley was delighted with the momentous result and the way his side bounced back from a 4-0 defeat to Aberdeen in their previous outing.<\/p>\n

The former Celtic and Rangers defender said: “I\u2019m exceptionally proud of the group of players. I think to beat Celtic on any given day, you have to carry a degree of luck.<\/p>\n

“We also have to show a real resilience and a real determination in the way you play.<\/p>\n

“You can talk all you want about the tactical elements, but the delivering of them is ultimately down to the players and I thought they were exceptional.<\/p>\n

“I couldn\u2019t be prouder because it\u2019s been a difficult couple of weeks for us on the back of the Aberdeen game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers spoke about finding Ferrari speed in a Honda Civic after Celtic suffered their first defeat away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-91021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}