Rodgers update on Iheanacho injury after Celtic win: ‘It doesn’t look great’

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has come out to confirm that Nigeria forward Kelechi Iheanacho suffered a not so good injury as the Scottish giants gained their first victory in the UEFA Europa League campaign with a well-deserved 2-1 victory over Sturm Graz.

The game had barely started when Celtic suffered their first injury blow when Iheanacho was forced to come off after picking up a knock, with Johnny Kenny replacing him up front.

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However, despite going a goal down in the first-half, goals from Liam Scales and Benjamin Nygren after the break were enough to give Brendan Rodgers’ side a 2-1 victory at Paradise. But in the 23rd minute there was another injury blow for the Hoops when Alistair Johnston pulled up, appearing to hold his hamstring.

‘Iheanacho injury doesn’t look great’

Speaking after the game, Rodgers admitted Iheanacho, who has been in great form since moving to the side, may have picked a hamstring injury

“The first two [Iheanacho and Johnston]? It doesn’t look great. It looks like hamstrings. But okay, that’s what happens,” Rodgers told TNT Sports “Well, our problem was, in the second half, that we could only make one substitution.

“Obviously Cam [Carter-Vickers] was struggling towards the end, but we couldn’t get him off because we had already made the subs, you only have three moments to make the subs in the game.

“I thought the guys that came in – I thought Colby, for a young guy coming in, I thought he grew in the game, got better and was more secure as the game went on – he wants to go forward, which is what we want.

“And Johnny [Kenny] came in and ran his heart out, threatened in behind and pressed the game. A couple of wee moments in the box where he nearly got on the end of it. So the guys came in and stood up to it really well.”

Ahead of the Europa League fixture, Iheanacho had already scored one goal for Celtic from two matches. He will therefore most likely miss the trip to face Hearts in a Scottish Premiership fixture on Sunday.