Celtic thrashed Aberdeen 5-1 in their Premiership encounter, with goals from Maik Nawrocki, Hyunjun Yang, Luke McCowan and Jonny Kenny, including Adam Idah coming off the bench and scoring.
After the strongest possible XI was played against Hibernian over the weekend, added with the upcoming clash against St Mirren this weekend, and then the Scottish Cup final.
It’s understandable why Brendan Rodgers made eight changes to his XI from the Celtic side that beat Hibs on home soil on Saturday afternoon.
That opened the door for Nawrocki to be handed another chance, given that he is playing behind the injured Cameron Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales and Auston Trusty.
Celtic fans are all saying the same thing about Maik Nawrocki after his performance at Aberdeen
Yes, Celtic might already be champions, but make no bones about it, Jimmy Thelin fielded his strongest possible XI, and they are also pushing for that third spot in the Premiership table.
Therefore, it was great to see the 24-year-old open the scoring and then produce a solid defensive display for the majority of the match.
The Celtic Park faithful on social media rightfully gave Nawrocki his flowers for yet another top display in the green and white colours.
@RyanStevenF2 had a thought: ‘Keep Nawrocki, Sell Scales’.
@Lukey67_ says he is loving what he is seeing from Nawrocki: ‘A genuinely love nawrocki man ave seen enough in 5 min start him in the cup final so composed on the ball plays the pass through the press a genuinely wonder what brendan sees in training that we clearly dont a hope he kicks on next season and plays more.’
@SmiddyBhoy1 wants to see more of the Polish defender: ‘We should definitely be using him more …. If only against bottom 6 initially fine but CCV needs rested from time to time or is he on big appearance bonus ??’
@peterd17171 thinks Maik is finding it easy: ‘Absolutely strolled it. He should get more minutes’.
@katedunbar61 states what many Celtic fans feel: ‘Hes a player don’t know why he doesn’t get game time’.
@BenTheTim joked about what must be happening in training: ‘Nawrocki must be scoring own goals in training because he doesn’t seem to do much wrong in games. Small sample size to be fair’.
@Boyle_67 on what he sees from Nawrocki: ‘The biggest compliment I can pay Maik Nawrocki is, every time I see him play once every 4 months, I ask myself why we don’t see him more often’.
@celtic_jaime highlighted the price tag: ‘What I can say is we haven’t seen much of nawrocki this season but what we have seen he’s done a good job & hopefully we see more from him next season because there’s definitely a decent player in him. Also £4.3m wasn’t cheap we paid for him either’.
@Bricky67_ continued the theme: ‘Hopefully Brendan Rodgers sees that Nawrocki can start and play comfortably He’s looked superb already’.
@DominikDiamond added humour: ‘This Nawrocki looks decent, eh?’
Nawrocki’s stats for Celtic against Aberdeen
Carter-Vickers is still out injured, and you question if he will be ready or will start against St Mirren at the weekend, especially with the cup final coming up.
Therefore, will Rodgers start Trusty and Scales again, like he did against Hibs, because he is better off keeping the man from Poland in his XI.
Every time Nawrocki has been handed a chance, he has looked pretty good and not out of place, as WhoScored provided him with a healthy rating for his latest display for Celtic.
