{"id":847205,"date":"2025-05-10T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/hell-outscore-him-former-burnley-midfielder-rates-cyriel-dessers-above-celtic-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:12:35","slug":"hell-outscore-him-former-burnley-midfielder-rates-cyriel-dessers-above-celtic-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/hell-outscore-him-former-burnley-midfielder-rates-cyriel-dessers-above-celtic-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019ll outscore him\u201d \u2013 Former Burnley midfielder rates Cyriel Dessers above Celtic forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former Burnley and AFC Bournemouth midfielder, Marvin Clement Bartley, has weighed in on the comparison between Cyriel Dessers and Adam Idah, revealing the Nigerian would score more goals in a Celtic jersey, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both strikers are of Nigerian descent, born in Europe. While Dessers chose to play for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Adam Idah opted to play for the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Idah has scored 18 goals and provided one assist in 50 games across all club competitions, while Dessers has scored 25 goals and provided seven assists in 52 games for Rangers this term.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rangers-cyriel-dessers-celebrates-scoring-983399725.webp\" alt width=\"940\" height=\"658\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155122\">Cyriel Dessers celebrates after scoring a 91st-minute winner against Dundee. [Photo Credit\/ TSS].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/cyriel-dessers-rangers-feyenoord.html\">\u201cLucky\u201d \u2013 Cyriel Dessers reflects on club career with Rangers and Feyenoord<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/cyriel-dessers-rangers-2.html\">Despite Premiership title disappointment, Cyriel Dessers scoops top award at Rangers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/leon-balogun-rangers-contract.html\"><strong>Leon Balogun unsure about Rangers\u2019 future as contract end nears<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imago1061743288-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160031\">UK: Rangers v Celtic, Scottish Premiership at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland on 04 May 2025: Pictured: Adam Idah Celtic celebrates his goal with his team-mates. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bartley, who played in the Scottish League during the final days of his career, revealed Idah has done excellent work at Celtic, but Dessers would have scored more goals.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYeah, well, [Idah\u2019s goals at] Aston Villa springs to mind, doesn\u2019t it? When he was given that start, he definitely does extremely well in that, and that\u2019s the thing, at times you can see Adam Idah like that, but there have been other games where he\u2019s looked off it for the level that\u2019s probably needed to be a main number nine at Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the one that he runs through with Liam Kelly, I know he scores later on with a deflection, but for me, I had no confidence that he was going to run through and put that ball in the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think Dessers would outscore him and outperform him in that Celtic team. I think that Celtic team is something to be feared,\u201d the 38-year-old told Superscoreboard in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/marvin-bartley-shares-who-would-score-more-goals-at-celtic-adam-idah-or-cyriel-dessers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">67 Hail Hail<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imago1022667361-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160028\">Former Hibs player Marvin Bartley on media duties during the Scottish Cup match between Hibernian and Heart of Midlothian at Easter Road Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland on 22 January 2023. 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Both strikers are of Nigerian descent, born in Europe. While Dessers chose to play for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29508,143808,2005],"tags":[6836,143807],"class_list":{"0":"post-847205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hell","8":"category-outscore","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-hell","11":"tag-outscore"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}