Rodgers Praises Luke McCowan’s ‘Passion’ Following Fir Park Win

Brendan Rodgers highly commended Luke McCowan, a summer acquisition, after he stepped in for club captain Callum McGregor during the team’s 3-0 triumph at Fir Park. Motherwell posed an early threat, with midfielder Lennon Miller striking both the post and the crossbar before McCowan netted a goal for the club he supported as a child. McCowan, whose signing from Dundee was finalized on deadline day, started the match in place of the unavailable McGregor, and his manager recognized the profound significance of this moment for him. “I’m so happy for him,” Rodgers said. “As a Celtic supporter coming in, maybe there’s that enthusiasm first of all, but then that wears off.”But he performs with great energy, a great passion for the game, and he has quality. Callum obviously wasn’t going to play, so the idea was to bring him in because he’s a goal threat, and I thought he was going to do really well.”You see that in every game he plays, he looks like he can create goals or score a goal.” Rodgers also expressed satisfaction with the depth of his squad, having implemented four changes from the goalless Champions League draw against Atalanta earlier in the week. These four alterations were made following the midweek fixture. He added: “We were able to rest Arne [Engels], who’s come in as a young player and played so many games, the distance he covered in midweek was huge””I’m obviously very grateful to the club for getting the players in that allows us to do that”.