Having been ahead only to be pegged back for the second time in a fortnight against Newco, there was a deflated feel inside Celtic Park at the end of the game yesterday. After taking the lead through a Daizen Maeda – Jota combination, Celtic created enough chances to put the game out of sight. They didn’t.
Newco equalised with the best move of the game and thereafter had a hatful of opportunities to win the game and cut the deficit at the top of the table. They also failed in this objective. Celtic remain six points clear with three games remaining, it is now only a matter of when, not if, they will win back their title.
Just as at Hampden last month, Celtic opened poorly, unable to pass through a man-for-man Newco press. The first chance of the game fell to Ryan Kent, who ghosted past Anthony Ralston but did not make a clean contact on the cross, his effort drifted wide.
Maeda failed to make an impact with his first two crosses from the left but his third was drilled into the six-yard box. TV replays showed Borna Barisic repeatedly check over his shoulder for an attack by Jota, but the Portuguese only had eyes for the cross, which he converted without too much trouble from the Newco left back, who will now be familiar with Celtic wingers running from behind him to score.
Newco took control of the game after the interval until Giorgos Giakoumakis and Nir Bitton replaced Matt O’Riley and Kyogo on the hour. In the minutes that followed, Celtic were on top, but could not solidify their lead. That period ended when Newco strung seven passes together inside the Celtic half that released Sakala with a clear shot at goal inside the box, which he finished well.
With home advantage and a significantly lighter playing schedule, you may have expected Celtic to finish the game the stronger, but the opposite was true. Sakala hit the post and had another great chance as Newco piled forward looking for a goal that would keep their title chances alive.
It was a great game of football but by no means a classic Celtic performance. Still, the result ensured the league title will return to Celtic Park for the 10th time in 11 seasons.
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saint stivs
Or that someone who had never worked in European football might arrive without a UEFA licence?
wait till Peter Lawwell is given chairman position
reading all things and joining the dots.
Ange says this is his celtic version 1.0.
but to move to the next level he needs the structure in place.
and to recruit he want someone called mark lawwell.
there you go.
Expect more change as Ange brings in his own man.
Quotes directly attributed to wee Reo himself about his own states of energy/wellbeing…
https://www.thenational.scot/sport/20080001.reo-hatate-admits-emotional-physical-fatigue-kicking-celtic-due-hectic-schedule/
“But for what feels like the first time, I’m definitely feeling emotional and physical fatigue. It’s been three months since I arrived in Glasgow and getting used to a new environment on and off the pitch has been trial and error.
“In Japan there were ways I could refresh myself and take a mental break but that’s difficult when you’re playing so frequently.
“There are times when I can’t make a run on goal, or hold back on the attack to preserve the team’s balance, and I have to recognise my fatigue…”
I have a Japanese girl in my organisation. I asked her to find and translate what Reo had said.
She told me he basically said he had never ever travelled so much , Scotland- Japan- Australia – Japan – Scotland (over 7 days) and that he was feeling discombobulated with it all.
Thats it.
aye, Peters bhoy, when you get us into the champions leage direct, he gets a full time job
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRcoij6X0AEiO30?format=jpg&name=small
James Forrest
Heading to my bed now.
I would be more comfortable with your scepticism (a good trait to have) but not the occasional spilling into pessimism and cynicism based on nothing more than how you think it will work out. You were right about Neils’s final season but wrong about Ange’s first.
A more considered approach might be to ask the questions and lay out the reservations you have without the advance pronouncements of disaster. Ronny Deila and Pedro Caixinha are decent coaches in the right setting. Jose Mourinho, with his unquestionable record, can be a disaster in the wrong setting (Man U).
A guy who has been overlooked because his place of operation is unjustly looked upon as a footballing backwater might be better than the smooth operator who knows how to say the right things and win over fans to his side, getting a club to spend money it can’t afford to boosts managerial standing rather than the club’s long term interests.
Yes, you are more likely to get top class talent from nations with exacting and competitive standards but there are no guarantees, Liam Brady and John Barnes played at a high level, Tony Mowbray coached at Premiership level but did not do what Ange has done.
The world of football management recruitment is not very scientific. There is still too more chance of a Name like Stevie G or Frank Lampard getting high profile appointments than there is for guys with less stellar careers but more coaching nous, like Ian Cathro or Austin McCann or Tam Courts. Though the success of Roy Hodgson and Graham Potter shows this snobbery may be lessening.
The chemistry that combines to make a successful coach a successful man manager is even rarer but I detect aspects of it in Ange,just as it was with Swalex and the younger Mourinho and with Stein and Shankly. These guys could run training sessions, develop players, organise teams and keep a decent level of control over the competing egos of successful players.
But each of them failed at certain aspects of their job. Mourinho became more arrogant and less open before he arrived at Man U. Jock was less certain after his accident and also ill at ease with the wage scales and transfer fees for players once they rocketed. Swalex struggled in his early days at Man U and was very close to being sacked.
When the Board of Brisbane Roar, the Australian FA and Yokohama Marinos took a chance on a dogged but unspectacular Greek Australian, they were taking a chance but none of them regretted it. At the highest coaching levels there are a lot more of the unspectacular playing career types than there are Cruyff’s and Zidane’s doing well.
Like Corkcelt, I will judge them on what they do for us not on how well or badly they did else where.
Keep criticising Celtic for lack of openness and failures on due process but give guys like Ange and Ronny Deila their due too, despite being Aussie and Norwegian, because they are palpably better than many Italian, German and English coaches. And Neil Lennon, despite his faults and his awful last season, did us proud at difficult times too.
I wont let that scabby turncoat bastard spoil this for me, he will regret what he did forever.
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On this day in 1986, Celtic win the league at Love Street.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1521263989992345602
I never get too agitated by the minor backroom appointments but we missed a trick here.
We could have waited 2 more days and appointed Mark Hammill as our new Head of recruitment
May the 4th be with you!
SAINT
Useful to discover your Japanese colleague’s alternative/native translation…
If only she’d tweeted ahead of Japan-based journo Dan Orlowitz:
https://twitter.com/aishiterutokyo/status/1516690307068600322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
…we’d all be debating if Reo’s discombobulation meant he felt confused and disordered in his personal life or in his positional play for the bhoys.
I replied to your query on Ange’s Aus prospects but no-one in A League would be a shoo-in for an Ange team.
that portugese player for dundee
Kiddio De Alberto
https://twitter.com/i/status/1521264304661614593
off to bed,
It is one glaring mistake to compare Ange to Pedro El Hedgo, but a compounding one to have insisted that ‘this guy should be nowhere near this job/our club’ .
Or was that not a mistake?
QUADROPHENIAN on 3RD MAY 2022 1:09 AM
I read your input, good stuff to know, keep it lit.
The Japanese new recruit suprised me by knowing all about Celtic, Naka , Kyogo, and had most praise for our injured bhoy Idaguchi,
you might know more than me about the culture, and deference, but she got quite offended about how Reo interview was reported, as being not quite right to what he actually said,
tired with all the travel he never did before, and no quiet place just to reflect when he is in glasgow, that is what he really said.
right i need to go to bed that 6:05 klm out of glasgow wont fly itself.
SAINT
I lived in Tokyo for 6months and the cultural/respect layers are pretty nuanced.
I hope whatever is ailing Reo atm, he overcomes it and becomes the fulcrum Ange clearly sees him as being for his Celtic vision.
Safe travel.
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BTW for anyone wondering if all Japanese players are gentle and caring when involved in tousy tackles, I dont think it’s 100% true. My fave player at my A League side – Western United – has a rugged RB called Tomoki Imai [a great little soldier]. Routinely digs, mixes it and crumples guys without so much as a second thought.
Big Hiro Ibusuki at Adelaide also knows where his elbows are – and uses ’em.
As Ange has said, they’re not homogenous Japanese players, they’re individuals.
We just got the extra-lovely ones ;) HH
JHB:
A nasty, poisonous little post in the guise of “not hating anybody” but full of allusions to me being one of those people who does. You don’t know me numbnuts, you’ve never met me or spoken to me in your life. Your presumption is deplorable.
And Celtic takes no notice of me! Of course not. Apart from regular communications with the club, and access to the manager and players on a regular basis along with other people.
What may shock you is to learn that the club is well aware of who I am, what I’m about … and that the club, including the former CEO, has every respect for what I do and trusts me as well. Trusts me. Because they know which side I’m on.
You, mate, are a pure fool not to recognise that.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX:
I was wrong about Ange’s first season? I was wrong about Ange, initially, and briefly.
But as I pointed out in one article today, by the time we defeated Jablonec home and away, by the time we’d thrashed Dundee, and in particular on the night we trounced AZ I was already predicting that if Ange got the players he wanted that we would win the title.
I said when the summer transfer window shut that we had a title challenge capable team, when even some of the other Celtic sites thought that was nonsense.
You think I’m a pessimist? You don’t read me much if you do. Other people accuse me of the complete opposite. But you are right, when it comes to the board my articles drip cynicsm … and they have given us every reason to feel that way.
That you would even suggest that I’ve got a low opinion of Ronny Deila – who I credit with having built the club culture that allowed Brendan Rodgers to win an invincible treble in his first campaign – shows how little you know about the views I hold and which I frequently express.
I don’t mind criticism for what I actually write … I do mind braindead dolts surmising that they know what I write based on half-baked views expressed by others just as ignorant.
In no mood to sugar coat this stuff anymore. If you aren’t prepared to actually do your homework and read what I say then you should keep your gub shut.
And with that I’ll say farewell for several more months.
Good morning CQN
Nir Bitton has been on the receiving end of some criticism on CQN since Sunday, fair enough opinions, and all of that, apparently, he picked up his usual yellow card, Bobby Madden during the semi-final, IMO John Lundstram committed at least 6 offenses that could be interpreted by an independent arbiter as yellow cards, we all know why he wasn’t, similarly, we all know why Nir Bitton isn’t afforded any leeway either, an interesting tweet below on two incidents which were viewed differently from Sundays match
https://twitter.com/Zeshankenzo/status/1520803841452744707?s=20&t=NewlvyWI9N20pjIADqds7A
Good morning all from a rain soaked Garngad
I dont know anything about Lawell junior but I do know that our board are Liars and charlatans and all should be sacked.
They do not represent Celtic fans at any level. Only it for themselves.
D :)
LIONROARS67 on 3RD MAY 2022 6:48 AM
Player blocking quick free kick happened on Sunday too, hun player stopped free being taken….
cheatin Beaton no reaction :O( Bassa.
I see various ex ref and football pundits giving their
opinions about the hand ball penalty which we didnt get on
Sunday but surely the foul by Tavernier on Jota
was a penalty
Perhaps because it was a definite penalty is why they
didnt srutinize it
Beaton looked like he gave absolutely no thought that
either may be a penalty in fact just ignored that both
had happened
Cheating hun barsteward
The smear campaign against Celtic continues today led by the Record, wonder if the Wags involved were giving it the BBC or other racist anti Catholic hate speech.
Why is it taking so long for Celtic to deal with issues from the Ibrox game, obstruction, tape wiped, threats ,is their stadium licence in jeopardy?
What happened in fielden Street on Sunday? Police seem interested in that and nothing else 8 arrests in total 2 inside Celtic Park.Hardly the riot that is being portrayed here is it, you would think someone is trying to cover up something much much worse and to defend their own position they attack others, very transparent.
Bbs
Sevco players on first name terms with Beaton at the end of the game, he is a cheat, he will get the SC final and make sure it arrives at ibrox
Morning all,
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
I think that sums it up perfectly, por cierto
I have predicted on CQN that the time will come soon when Police Scotland do us all a favour by banning away supporters from Glasgow derbies at Celtic Park and Ibrox.
I’ll tell you what is making such a scenario even more certain, and that is the Ibrox club slaughtering the police and claiming their supporters were left exposed and unprotected. Just the incentive needed for the Chief Constable to say “To hell with this”.
DESSYBHOY
I don’t recall the Record calling out the Rangers support for showering Celtic players with missiles as they celebrated in front of their own fans at Ibrox a few weeks ago.
I think it is absolutely ridiculous that some on here are criticising the appointment of Mark Lawwell because of who his father is.
Ange worked with the guy for a few years in Japan and there is no way he would have got anywhere near Celtic Park without the manager’s say so.
Some people are utterly obsessed with PL and bring up his name for the flimsiest of reasons, all of which reminds me – I’m hearing Jimmy Tarbuck is still telling gags about British Leyland and Arthur Scargill.
Tmcl
Not a hope in hell of that happening, at least 4 incidents in that game of bottles being thrown all sections of the stadium involved, rumours their security boss ex senior cop has been sacked or resigned, stewarding supposedly is carried out by volunteers which is asking for trouble. So with all this going on why give them tickets for Sunday,it’s madness and a perfect chance for them to come to CP and cause bother.
Maybe the thought they would be escorted in after being told to arrive 2 hours early but didn’t who knows.
KEVINLASVEGAS
Hi – do you live in Vegas? I only ask as I plan to visit and would appreciate any tips on good bars, restaurants etc.
HH
So a Celtic supporter comes on to CQN and demands that the board publish the CV of a man who has just been recruited to a key position in the club.
And he claims that he always thinks things through before speaking his mind?
Jesus wept.
Mornin.
Not a surprise to see SFTB as balanced in his perspective on Celtics new high profile appointment.
Not a surprise to see some others seeing problems with it.
Ca plus ca change as already mentioned.
For me I just hope Zadok the Priest is playing away on repeat in the house on Saturday night.
The big prize this season brings more than a ” normal” league win.
It gives us unprecedented monies and it gives players with ambition the opportunity to play CL football.
I trust Ange and Mark Lawwell will make good use of both opportunities.
The journey has only started, expect turbo drive for the next stage.
HH to all.
BELMONTBRIAN on 2ND MAY 2022 10:28 PM
Philbhoy
you ok
Brian
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Fine and dandy Brian! Thank you for asking!
Just taking a wee break but understand from MARSPAPA that the Blog’s a better place since the the new MODERATOR showed up.
Long may it continue!
Hope you are well too my friend!
Take care and C’MON THE CELTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it Sevco or Old Firm, compiling a dossier on hate crimes on Sunday
Shouldn’t be difficult to identify the 700+ of their colleagues at the game on Sunday then
700 executive club members of the club they follow
Ask your board for their names
The vast majority were signing illegal, hateful songs I blame the schools
Was typing there and
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