Hands up those of us who have coached a team or played a game in the Champions League. No, me neither. So, give or take a couple, that’s pretty much all of us. According to the Brendan Rodgers bible, the majority’s views should be classed as ‘totally and absolutely irrelevant’. Unless they happen to agree with him.
Don Cowie was the first player he paid a transfer fee for during his first management stint at Watford more than 15 years ago. But it was the Invernesian who taught his former master a lesson in remaining in the game, and Rodgers should think about what happened yesterday and how hard his players had to work for a dramatic late win, no matter how grudgingly.
Ross County relied on resilience, discipline, and a strong team structure to bridge the financial gap between themselves and Scotland’s champions, and they came dangerously close to achieving a result they had no right to. Give credit where it’s due. A less experienced manager than Rodgers would have been entirely perplexed by Cowie’s stuffy game plan, but he’s been around the block before in Scottish football.
Rather than panicking, he went to his bench and made the changes that enabled his team to shake off post-Westfalen lethargy and face the challenge ahead. The cameos of Kyogo Furuhashi, James Forrest, Paulo Bernardo, and Luke McCowan were simply too great for Cowie’s
It has happened so frequently – and frequently at this same northern outpost – that it can no longer be described as an accident. Celtic and Rodgers, on the other hand, are experts in this type of situation. However, the traumas they continue to endure when taken outside of their own comfort zone necessitate a rethinking of the manager’s approach.
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