Moussa Dembele is ruled out for a potential three weeks at Celtic.
Some Celtic fans on Twitter are blaming Brendan Rodgers for Moussa Dembele’s latest setback.
Rodgers confirmed via a press conference on Tuesday that the in-form striker could miss the next three weeks with a hamstring injury.
Dembele picked up the injury in last week’s 3-0 win over Alashkert in Champions League qualifying, as the Hoops set up a second-round tie with Rosenborg.
The former Fulham star, who scored two first-half goals to make it 5-0 on aggregate, was taken off by Rodgers in the 66th minute at Parkhead.
And some fans of the Hoops reckon that there was no need for Rodgers to keep him on that long in the first place.
Celtic fans probably have a point, to be fair.
Five-nil ahead in the tie, did Rodgers really need a player with Dembele’s injury record on the field that long? There might have been a very good reason, but it’s not immediately obvious what it was and whatever it might have been, it backfired in a big way.
The Bhoys face the Norwegian champions tomorrow and it’ll be interesting to see whether Rodgers uses someone else in a two-pronged attack with Odsonne Edouard, or whether he reverts to a 4-5-1.
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