Celtic player set for striker switch as Brendan Rodgers sweats over Adam Idah scan

CELTICCELTIC manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted he could move Daizen Maeda up front again if Adam Idah is sidelined for a prolonged period of time by the ankle injury he suffered against Motherwell at Fir Park on Sunday.

Speaking to the media today in advance of tomorrow night’s William Hill Premiership encounter against Dundee at Parkhead, Rodgers was awaiting the results of a scan on Republic of Ireland international Idah.

He is hopeful that the £9 million summer acquisition won’t be out for much longer due to the careless challenge that opposing defender Liam Gordon was shown a red card for by referee David Dickinson.

However, the Northern Irishman acknowledged that winger Maeda, who scored twice while playing in the middle during the Premier Sports Cup victory over Hibernian in August without Kyogo Furuhashi and Idah, would be switched to attack once more if he is.

“Adam took a nasty knock,” Rodgers remarked. “I believe the task was inadequate. Fortunately, his foot was able to move because the ground was rather damp. It might have been a really, really, really bad one if his foot had become trapped in the field on a dry pitch.

However, he has been moving a little bit more in the past several days. It is our hope that he will emerge unscathed. We’ll wait and see what the scan reveals because we haven’t lost him yet. Until I receive the results, I can’t worry.

“But, yes, it wasn’t a great challenge. After the game, you don’t have a lot of time as a manager and coach to look at these things in great detail. But when you actually come away and look at it, it was a poor challenge. I still feel that he (Gordon) obviously didn’t mean to do harm with it.”