Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers pleased but admits performance was not 'perfect'
Sunday 18 December 2016 16:42, UK
Brendan Rodgers admitted to having mixed feelings about Celtic's 2-1 home win over lowly Dundee.
The Hoops are 11 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership table following 15 wins from their 16 games this season.
For Saturday's game in Glasgow he made five changes, which included an appearance by Ryan Christie, who was making only his second league start of the season
And Rodgers said: "I felt it was a good performance, we dominated the first half of the game.
"I think it shows the respect that teams are having for how the players are performing, so 5-4-1 with the goalkeeper is 11 players behind the ball on half a pitch.
"It is difficult to break down but I thought the players in the first half were very, very good.
"We just missed the final action to get the goal and I was just making notes to tell them that when Leigh scores a great free-kick.
"The problem came when we got the second goal and got a wee bit excited and started to come out of our positions.
"We couldn't then press the game and then it became a game of basketball, they are on the attack, we are on the attack because we don't have control and they got the goal and it is 2-1.
The problem came when we got the second goal and got a wee bit excited and started to come out of our positions.
"You have to regain your composure again and we created some chances and they had a big chance but it was all of our own making.
"But overall, with five players coming in, some who haven't played for a long time and without our skipper [suspended Scott Brown], I thought it was a very good result for us.
"Not perfect but parts of the game were very good."
Visiting manager Paul Hartley added: "I felt overall we had a good game plan and they didn't cut us open or get behind us too much."
