Celtic vs Atletico Madrid tips and predictions: One-way traffic as visitors run riot at Celtic Park
Celtic and Atletico Madrid will meet in the Champions League on Wednesday and we’re predicting a thumping victory for the visitors.
Rodgers' managerial journey started with a youth coaching job at Chelsea, before taking him through managerial roles with Watford, Reading and Swansea City and then Liverpool.
His achievement of masterminding promotion to the top flight of English football for only the second time in the Swans' history handed him his shot at the Anfield job.
After three-and-a-half years with the Reds, he relocated north to take the reins at Celtic, before joining the Foxes in 2019, where he won the FA Cup in 2021.
Rodgers subsequently guided them to an 11th-place finish, taking points off Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham along the way. Having defied the bookies, who had offered shorter odds on Elvis Presley being discovered alive than on Swansea avoiding relegation, Rodgers quickly found himself to be hot property. He departed the Liberty Stadium in June 2012 to take the Anfield manager's role.
However, a first defeat since December saw them fall at the final hurdle, as they ended up second, two points behind eventual champions City. It was still a memorable season, however, as Liverpool netted 101 goals, the most ever by a Premier League runner-up, cementing Rodgers' status as an in-demand coach who played attacking soccer.
A sixth-placed finish followed in the next season, as Liverpool also went out of the Champions League in the group stage. He was dismissed by Liverpool in October 2015, on the back of a run which had seen them win just once in nine games, with his legacy found in the signings of Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho.
If Rodgers' reputation had been damaged by his sacking from Liverpool, the crushing weight of the silverware he won in Scotland built it back up. In February 2019, with Celtic again on course for yet another treble, Rodgers was hired by Leicester to replace the recently sacked Claude Puel.
They reached their first ever European semi-final in the 2021/22 season with a run to the last four of the inaugural Europa Conference League before losing to Roma.
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