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Brendan Rodgers has sent a warning out to Celtic’s future opponents ahead of their clash with St Johnstone.
Many will be waiting to see if Rodgers makes any drastic changes to the side from Celtic’s midweek win in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie.
Rodgers was thrilled with the performance of his players on Wednesday night as Celtic put five past Hapoel Be’er Sheva at Paradise.
As quoted by the Glasgow Evening Times, the 43-year-old Irishman said:
It is actually pretty easy. We want to win the game – we want to win everything.
You can go either way, can’t you. You can change the entire team and rest players, with the possibility of losing momentum. Or you can play the same team that are doing really well.
Some players have missed out on fitness but I think the Inter Milan team showed that they can still come into the game and dominate at a very high level.
Whatever team I play will be set up to win the game. As soon as the final whistle goes, then we will focus on the second leg.
Facing Celtic on Tuesday will be the prospect of reaching the group stages of the Champions League for the first time in three years and bank at least £20 million from the competition.
Before that, Rodgers will be looking for Celtic’s second win of the season later today (Saturday) when they travel to Perth to take on St Johnstone.
The Saints have started the season well and are unbeaten in the league so far, but lost to the Hoops in three of their four meetings last season.
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