Brendan Rodgers makes SPFL Celtic fixture plea as Hoops at immediate Champions League 'disadvantage'
dailyrecord.co.ukBrendan Rodgers has pleaded with league chiefs for help to give Scottish teams more of a fighting chance in Europe. The Celtic boss is stunned his side face a camel trek to Dingwall on Saturday before heading out to Spain for their crunch Champions League clash against Atletico Madrid.
The La Liga big guns have shifted their scheduled clash on Sunday at Las Palmas back 48 hours to Friday. And Rodgers feels Scottish football bosses don’t do enough to shift the fixture list to give teams better preparations for continental clashes.The Celtic gaffer – whose side host St Mirren in the Premiership on Wednesday – said: “The one thing I would always ask is if there’s ever a possibility (to help).
It always seems to be a challenge in British football where federations can actually help the teams. If you look at us, we played last Wednesday here.
We played on the Sunday and Atletico Madrid played on the Saturday and 24 hours is absolutely massive in football for recovery.“It’s not rocket science to know that in the last 15 minutes you might be fatiguing a wee bit due to that day less recovery.
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