Instant gratification is no good for people, it gives our brains the wrong signals, but still, when it comes………. Within 4 minutes of making his Celtic debut Daizen Maeda opened the scoring against Hibernian. It was his first chance, his first proper involvement in play and pivoted the game away from Hibs, who should have already been ahead after Joe Hart and Josip Juranovic pondered in their six-yard box.
Such was the anticipation ahead of last night’s game that for some of us it brought back memories of Jorge Cadete’s debut against Aberdeen (delayed by maleficence at the SFA), or Paulo Di Canio’s against Kilmarnock the same year. Maeda’s impact was every bit as clinical. His 90 minutes was reminiscent of Kyogo; constant movement, gyroscopic balance, few touches and an outcome-determining performance.
If Maeda had a dream debut, Reo Hatate’s reached fantasy levels. When we first heard of Reo he was operating as a left back, with the cursed title of a utility player. The transformation he brought to Celtic’s play had to be seen to be believed. His role was to create and then utilise space, the former achieved by perpetual movement, the latter by ranging passes that switched play and swiftly pushed Celtic forward.
As a consequence, it all looked too easy for Celtic. They had options everywhere, a teammate in space, a forward pass tempting them into attack. Hatate’s movement impacted what happened everywhere on the field. It was a kind of omnipresence, even when he was 40 yards away (the limit of his distance from play), he was still consequential.
With so many playing their first game in over a month, the relenting pace of the first half could not continue. Celtic reduced their pressing after the break and saw the game out. With five substitutes available, it was curious that Ange Postecoglou waited until 74 minutes before brining on Yosuke Ideguchi, Giorgos Giakoumakis and Mikey Johnston.
Our third and final debutant of the night had a lot to live up to. Yosuke adopted the No. 6 role at the back of the midfield, with Callum McGregor moving one place ahead for the remainder of the game. He did enough to show comfort and competence on the ball, as Celtic subverted Hibernian hopes.
As I said above, instant gratification misleads our brains. My brain has already extrapolated last night’s performance across the remainder of the season. Let’s agree that at the very least, Celtic have embarked on an exciting road.
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Boyd and – to a lesser extent – McInnes, are just enjoying winding Tims up.
“Oh aye – defo a penul’y. Wisnae geid tho – wiz it??? Git it up yeeeezzzzzzz!!!!!!”
That sort of thing.
Would do it myself were t’shoe on t’other fit.
Maybe I’m paranoid though.
HH
BGFC
Woeful game of football. Two crap teams. We will beat them both no problem.
Bheaver
That was my thoughts too👍👏
Pen Aberdeen
Yes 1-1
woohoo!!
That’ll make for a nice 20 mins.
oh yes get in there
Lets see how the huns react
Very fitting that our Colombian friend should give away that penalty . Mon the sheep!
Ball moved before strike
Uri Geller up to his old tricks ….😀
Was it an obvious penalty ( silly question, I know but wondered if it was a red card situation) ?
aberdeen 6 fouls 3 bookings
sevco 18 fouls 4 bookings
Who’s keeping Lewis Ferguson oot the Celtic team?
P.S. Lewis is a good lad, he was in my sons class at St Mary’s in Hamilton.
I think they were also in the same class at Holy Cross High school, also in Hamilton.
Get him signed CSC
as blatant a penalty as you will see.. then again its the huns we are talking about , ive seen them not given .
kent red carded for tackle on brownie
Kent off.
Stupid second red for a foul on brown.
Broody giving it some shithousery.
Broooooney
Broony winding thems up :O)
Good to see Broony really enjoying himself
Broony luvvin it.
that kent cult sent aff, scuddish msm in uproar
Beeb says sending off was harsh.
So there ye have it.
Beeb says Aberdeen player headed ball onto Morelos arm.
Thems the facts.
dons miss a sitter
Point of information for the Celtic board (I’m sure the Res12 punters will have cited this precedent…)
Middlesbrough confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that they are suing Derby for “systematically cheating” whilst breaking the English Football League’s financial rules in previous seasons. They say had Derby not done so, Boro would have made the Championship play-offs, with the potential to earn tens of millions of pounds…
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11696/12519197/derbys-would-be-takeover-bids-hit-by-middlesbrough-and-wycombe-legal-action
AIPPLE; I’m with yer fam – in these hard times, it was a beautiful – yes, that’s the word – beautiful movie. Enjoy WSS.
1-1 Ft
Take that.
FT 1-1 great result
Huns draw
Evening all
https://youtu.be/R1HNQasOEIA
Nite all
Brian
they were playing on till the northern lights came on
Jesus god 2 seriously seriously pish teams. Like watching a game fro the Beezer homes trophy and thats unkind to the BHT.
Be awhile before Clancy refs the huns after that.
Yes the Don’s.Every bit helps.
How poor were the Huns.Aberdeen same.
Huns lucky to get a point, but they are now under pressure.
Last couple of times they stuttered we handed it back to them net game.
Absolutely critical we win at Hearts, do that and I believe we will win League,
Needed these results. Six points wasn’t terminal but left no room for error. Four points doesn’t look so bad – especially if we beat them at Celtic Park.
Apprehensive to look…………delighted, will kent be suspended against us?
Looking forward to Boyd’s face
JH & SB immense against thems tonight.