The Newco team who knocked us out of the Scottish Cup yesterday were barely competitive, which shows just how straightforward Celtic are to beat. Ryan Kent sold Scott Brown then Stephen Welsh to create the chance that led to the opening goal. The defensive disorganisation at the second goal was a collective failure on the part of Diego Laxalt, Kristoffer Ajer and Jonjoe Kenny, although the latter was least culpable. For a critical period in the middle of the first half, we were not compact enough to halt Newco on their occasional forward runs, which cost us the game.
John Kennedy’s big call was giving Laxalt the left back role. It was a mistake, rectified at halftime by the arrival of Greg Taylor, who made a goal-saving tackle. Greg is not going to threaten the two incumbent Scotland left backs, but he gives all he has for the jersey. Diego is one of many who will take their last stagecoach out of town next month.
Our 0-2 defeat at Celtic Park earlier this season, when we failed to register an attempt on target, was definitely the most inept performance of the decade. By contrast, we created enough high value chances to win two games yesterday. The Welsh and Ajer double chance, the Elyounoussi and Edouard double chance, the Elyounoussi chance when Edouard put him clean through and the penalty. These and more were all passed up. Did any of us celebrate the penalty award with expectation of a goal? Not in my house. The lack of confidence was palpable.
Chris Sutton reckons Odsonne Edouard looks “almost like he’s not interested” – and having watched Chris walk around the field after Celtic lost possession in his last two seasons in Glasgow, I’m prepared to believe he knows when a player is not interested.
Odsonne has been wanted by Leicester for a year, his languid appearance perhaps a final sting in the tail of February 2019. He could be in for a shock. Since the Leaving of Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers has coveted the now-available Tottenham job above all others. There may well be a new sheriff in town at the King Power when the transfer window opens.
Compare and contrast the sheer effort from Leigh Griffiths. Give me a man with something to prove every day of the week. Leigh won the penalty because he was playing on his toes. His chest and volley effort was a low percentage chance but the agility he showed is a lesson to the rest of the squad.
More on the consequences of England’s managerial merry-go-round on Celtic later in the week, and we will pick up on the breakaway European Super League proposal. Today is only about a fifth successive Scottish Cup win evading Celtic; we just did not deserve it.
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TIMBHOY2 on 19TH APRIL 2021 3:25 PM
Bhoys how can I watch the Aberdeen game on Wednesday
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A £40 Kevin Bridges box from your pal or pay £12.99 to Aberdeen FC.
BSR,
I think we already got a decent return on our money, any transfer fee is a bonus.
I’m not in agreement with the trash Eddy brigade, the guy has talent to burn, play him in his natural position and that will be evident.
Embramike – Hugh Dallas has promised to bring the top refs from Scotland to the new league.
We’ll Paul your prediction was rather wide of the mark just like our shooting.
The need for a new football management team is at defcon 4.
Uefa and Fifa have got a bit of a nerve – they’ve done everything to marginalise football teams outside of the big leagues / nations.
GO TELL THE SPARTIM on 19TH APRIL 2021 3:12 PM
If you’re somehow suggesting there’s a racist undertone to the criticism of Eddie, then you’re barking up the wrong tree.
You’re right that nobody has really covered themselves in glory this season but it’s one thing to see limited players huffing and puffing and gifted players strolling around the pitch.
I’m glad you’re happy with Eddie’s contribution this season. For me, it has been nowhere near close to what we know he’s capable of.
Well not we’ll
From last thread:
JHB on 19TH APRIL 2021 2:56 PM
PETERLATCHFORDSBLY @ 9:36
Apologists like JHB on here parroting that rationale last night.
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Exactly what “rationale” am I an apologist for?
*For stating the obvious that Scottish football needs the ‘big two’ to survive. If we ever move to a bigger & better league then of course that will no longer apply
*For applying common sense that says if you take one of the ‘big two’ out of the game, football in Scotland becomes, over time, a replica of the Irish, or, Welsh, leagues.
*For pointing out that at this moment in time the health of Scottish football is THE major determining factor in the health of Celtic. This is where we play and will do in the foreseeable future.
Why don’t you get this?
No one is advocating forgiving and forgetting the cheating, deception & manipulation of the old Rangers. However realism demands that we now deal with where we are and what we have got.
I am Celtic through & through, as are all of my family – however I am not an ostrich. My heart is green, but I haven’t dyed my brain green and incapacitated it in the process.
I am a supporter, not a fanatic.
Saint Stivs on 19th April 2021 2:19 pm
I heard Jose is coming to Celtic.
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I am not a betting man, but I will give odds of a million to one against that happening. More to the point, he is a genuinely nasty person who treated Celtic with contempt in Seville and behave atrociously when Madrid were playing Barça
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRkTHwD6Gc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqyJa-hAvgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142dIB1Yqoo
Although he did get what he deserved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4_KC2tlDTw
JHB,
I notice you completely ignore the fact that every team in the top flight improved their financial performance with the hun missing.
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 19th April 2021 3:29 pm
BSR,
I think we already got a decent return on our money, any transfer fee is a bonus.
I’m not in agreement with the trash Eddy brigade, the guy has talent to burn, play him in his natural position and that will be evident.
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I would tend to agree with you. Eddie has been totally misused and wasted.
and some think that Ajer is our best player , just show how far our standards have fallen , the rest must be utter gash, oh has anyone picked up all the cards scattered on the floor.
we are a complete and utter shambles, a group of guys put together half that don’t want to be here and the other half not good enough to be here.
CANAMALAR @ 3.29
Hope you’re well
I refuse to be a member of the trash any Celtic player brigade, but when you’re the designated leader off, of the want away brigade and have just missed a penalty ( you denied Leigh Griffith’s to take ) and a raging sitter against Sevco, then you’ll have signed yourself in, for criticism on any Celtic Blog ( see the internet ).
I agree he’s not a target man, and is better coming left from a wider psoition, and one of the first criticism’s I read on here was that “ he’s no a striker “ £20M will take him away from Paradise where his time is clearly done, peanuts for the EPL.
GeeBee1978
I’m merely stating that it’s interesting that certain words are attributed to certain players on a continual basis, you mentioning race is on you. I would never attribute a characteristic on anyone based on limited evidence from posts on a blog. Cqn has plenty of anti OE articles.
No one has had a good season but without the goals he’s scored where would we be? Everyone, this season, is capable of more, what of the Scottish xavi, he’s been blowing out his arse all season, we could go on, the abject failure is on the whole club yet our ambitions for next season depend considerably on a good sized transfer fee for the much lambasted OE and ‘he can’t win a header’ Ajer
I’m twitching with conspiracy, PL resigns, the huns win and the fabled breakaway league all happen in the same year, connect your own dots, m,m,m,m,mad I tells yea
CELTIC players have scored more goals at Ibrox than their opponents in Glasgow derbies this season.
@CQN magazine
On another note….anyone think if Spurs flash their knickers at Brendan he’ll upsticks before taking Leicester to the Wembley final?
I do
No one wants to be edourd.
Re JHB – No one is advocating forgiving and forgetting the cheating, deception & manipulation of the old Rangers. However realism demands that we now deal with where we are and what we have got.
that is forgiving and forgetting the cheating!! I never trust people who say things tlike that’s in the past… they are scum… cheating scaum still cheating today. Like the celtic board who have helped them.. how does that help Celtic.. we could ghave been playing in Champions league evry year if they had backed manager and set up a proper youth system.
BSR,
Did you designate him as the leader of the want away brigade?
As GS said last night, you don’t know anything because nothing is official, it could be a strategy for a better deal or it could be a complete fabrication, have you seen anything official where he states he wants away?
Ooops hope you are well too BSR
SCULLYBHOY on 19TH APRIL 2021 3:38 PM
Saint Stivs on 19th April 2021 2:19 pm
I heard Jose is coming to Celtic.
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i am just tormenting. he will end up at another big bucks position, Newcastle maybe.
CANAMALAR
No me mate, the dugs in the street are barking it.
I read yesterday a year later officially from Fraser Forster he wanted to go back to Southampton.
The dugs in the street were barking that a year ago as well, some things you just have to accept and let it go.
In the case of Edouard, his demeanour and form suggest WGS is bullshitting for Celtic.
BSR,
You’d have thought his form would have improved if that was the case, you won’t get too many suitors if your no attractive, Shirley?
just how bigoted
your full of sh…
you are!
‘its all water under the bridge”
yup you farted that through your thumb in reply to Auldheids answer about cheating with regards his ongoing work
Sir Cheat of hunnery is a fine example of this unions corruption.a fine bisniss man to his unionist base debt ridden vermin to the rest of us
No wonder confusion reigns in your head.working class tory to voter.
says it all.
MARADOMINIC on 19TH APRIL 2021 3:58 PM
All the wailing and gnashing of teeth – all the what might have been….
The clock cannot be turned back.
We deal with what is in front of us at this moment in time – life is not always fair.
GO TELL THE SPARTIM on 19TH APRIL 2021 3:51 PM
No, the mentioning of race isn’t on me. I knew what you meant when you said “not too dissimilar to the study on commentators descriptors on players over the years.” even if others didn’t. This was a study that tried to ascertain if certain words were used more to describe people of color.
I’m aware that other players have been poor but as someone who reads this blog more than posts, these people have got it in the neck too – our three goalkeepers, our defense, Scott Brown, Griff….everyone it seems other than Soro and Turnbull. When Eddie gets it, it doesn’t mean there’s an ulterior motive.
Plenty of people, including Paul67 and Chris Sutton believe that Eddie has wanted away since the summer and has downed tools. As someone who is partially paying his salary, this isn’t good enough. I can excuse Taylor trying his best but being limited; I can excuse Ajer trying his best but being played out of position; I can excuse Frimpong busting a gut but not being able to cross a ball but I find it hard to excuse someone treating our club with contempt.
I’m sure he’ll get a move to a big-league but it won’t be a club of the stature it might have been had he been playing his best and fighting for the cause.
The old analytics and data driven decision makers will look at OE and see someone who scores every 139 minutes. Aged 23.
1 in 4 of his shots brings a goal.
65% shot accuracy.
164 games for Celtic resulting in 81 goals and 37 assists.
His poor season is not lack of effort, imho, he plays the same way, it is just bad finishing. Remarkably his ratio’s are the same as last season.
They will also see a player who scored in Europe, scores 19 in 12 matches for France Under 21;s.
He will succeed somewhere else if he goes to the right club, I am convinced of it.
Remember him for Hunskelpings, Panelkas and Cup winning goals. Not for a bad miss and a penalty miss at the toilet block.
Give the bhoy a break.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 19TH APRIL 2021 3:41 PM
JHB,
I notice you completely ignore the fact that every team in the top flight improved their financial performance with the hun missing.
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You show me those figures and I will gladly include them.
The SKY deal, without which all clubs outside of the ‘big two’ could not survive, only continued because of the prospect of the Ibrox club coming back into the top flight and it included coverage of the lower divisions for the first time.
Without multiple ‘old firm’ games per season, SKY would have no interest in Scottish football….and with this new ESL in the offing, it may well be that the current deal will be the last.
ps, how quickly we forget the COVID effects.
Saint Stivs
What is / are the COVID effects?
Saint Stivs on 19th April 2021 4:28 pm
The old analytics and data driven decision makers will look at OE and see someone who scores every 139 minutes. Aged 23.
1 in 4 of his shots brings a goal.
65% shot accuracy.
164 games for Celtic resulting in 81 goals and 37 assists.
His poor season is not lack of effort, imho, he plays the same way, it is just bad finishing. Remarkably his ratio’s are the same as last season.
They will also see a player who scored in Europe, scores 19 in 12 matches for France Under 21;s.
He will succeed somewhere else if he goes to the right club, I am convinced of it.
Remember him for Hunskelpings, Panelkas and Cup winning goals. Not for a bad miss and a penalty miss at the toilet block.
Give the bhoy a break.
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Spot on – I really believe the bhoy has been poorly treated. I also think Ryan gets a raw deal. Wee James was almost destroyed, and it is something I don’t like to see, but with social media this type of bullying is only going to get worse.
BSR
I think it was GS who said he(Eddie) was more of a #10
SQUIRE DANAHAR
Try hesgoal or vip league
Geebee1978
I refereed to a report that analysed and tried to characterise words associated with players of differing ethnic backgrounds which I said was interesting but didn’t mention conclusive, evidence based, peer assessed and confirmed bias., lazy seems to follow OE and ON that’s a fact. Nowhere did I accuse anyone of racism, in fact I didn’t even mention it.
Yes indeed were always looking for “escape goats” now that Forrest missed a chunk of the season it had to be someone else, and only Soro and Turnbull seem to be excused probably because they’ve only featured and done quite well on a few occasions. Personally, I think it was a collective cluster…. of a season
Do P67 and Sutton have conclusive proof, Paul would only know what he’s been told, but I take your point that he probably does, promise of a bigger league, homesick who knows what I just don’t buy that’s he’s lazy or uninterested, in the years I’ve watched him, he’s rarely looked excited. I’m also willing to excuse his performance this year as there is no evidence as to what COVID 19 does to you long term. The days of busting a gut are long gone, endeavour doesn’t always equal achievement.
Wherever he goes will depend on who wants to pay the most for him, going to a smaller club didn’t do VVD any harm in the long run.
Wouldve replied sooner but spend so long re editing due to predictive text, which isn’t pretty.
It takes all sorts to make a successful team a good coach will be a start, whoever that may be.
Dom’s been in situ nearly a full day just what is he doing?
Dom’s been in situ nearly a full day just what is he doing?
He took first team training today.
I heard Jose is coming to Celtic….to join Francey presumably
One for the older listeners
St Stivs
😂
It was a tongue in cheek comment
Impatient CSC