For a striker, getting your first goal at a new club is a huge mark. The longer it takes, the more pressure lands on your shoulders. Giorgos Giakoumakis settled that liability on his first start for Celtic against St Johnstone on Saturday.
After an inauspicious start off the bench against Hearts, Kyogo Furuhashi also scored on his first Celtic start, away to Jablonec in the Europa qualifiers. The flurry of goals that followed changed the trajectory of Celtic’s season. Giorgos goal on Saturday could be just as important.
Apart from the November international break, Celtic have two games per week until Christmas. This is the kind of run that blunts players whose responsibility it is to carry the load game after game.
Ange Postecoglou will be able to rest Kyogo, who will return to Asia for Japan’s games next month, and let Giorgos lead the line. The Greek striker also has the benefit that he is not the Greece striker, he has not represented his country since March and is likely to have a two week break next month, time hopefully spent at Lennoxtown honing his fitness.
Resting Kyogo also means bringing Mikey Johnston and/or eventually James Forrest back into the team. There is no freshness gained if Kyogo is shifted to the right. Johnston has looked sharp on his substitute appearances this month, especially against Ferencvaros on Thursday. The home game against Livingston on Saturday would be an opportunity for him to start.
For all that has been said about our defence this season, they scarcely conceded a chance worthy of the name during their three consecutive clean sheets. This is a factor not just of defensive form, but of shape in the middle of the park. It is as though everyone now knows what to do.
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DAVID66 on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 11:55 AM
MARSPAPA on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 10:21 AM
Hibs v Celtic PPV £15
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Thats a feckin joke. A bad one.
How many PPV away games we had? anyone counting?
D :)
Solid win on Saturday and good to see that there’s not a team in the league who have conceded less goals than us.
Good afternoon all.
I thought all the defence played well on saturday.
Ralston had a good game, assisted the goal and involved in several good passages of play.
what do people want from the bhoy ?
Turkeybhoy..
Previous articles..
Ola TV is good if you can handle adverts and it going down now and again…
☘🤓HH.
St Stivs,
You know the answer, a few more vowels in his name. He’s doing well, still think JJ will be the eventual starting right back but for now it’s Tony’s
SAINT STIVS on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 12:19 PM
Agreed, but the argument against him is that he gets found out against better teams. I like the Bhoy and have defended him on here before. I think he is still young enough to improve for better coaching than he had since March 2019.
Paul – I can’t share the optimism re: MJ but remain hopeful that he can show under this management the degree of consistency to which TR has stepped up of late.
DAVID66 on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 12:09 PM
Have the Huns had any??
They are never off the bloody box
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 12:42 PM
DAVID66 on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 12:09 PM
Have the Huns had any??
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PP great point, probably not.
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Sorry Prestonpans Bhoys I meant.
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Good article Paul, one game at a time bud.
HH
KLV
DAVID 66
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LIVI charged £20…..maybe the extra charge for 2 home games against us and Rangers can pay to remove the AstroTurf.
If we win as comfortably against Hibs as we have in our recent games then there’s little doubt that we’re the real deal. Wednesday is a marker.
Marspapa
Our club should put forward a motion to propose the banning of astroturf in premier division.
Now possible to get the 11-1 majority required for any change as there is only one pitch in the division.
Might be a while before the opportunity presents itself again.
I’m at a loss here.
Surely if you are at home why would you pay for ppv for an away game when you can access the game for free. ?
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 12:57 PM
Good point.
They gave out loans (covid) , could they not give them an interest free loan to remove it or would that be detrimental to how they play and gain points.
Well controlled game from back to front. Did Joe Hart have a save to make? If he did then it certainly was of the routine variety.
What wasn’t well controlled was the St. Johnstone player who had not one but two kicks and raised his hand to CCV.
I watched the official SPFL highlights, the assualt on CCV didn’t make it in, so if you weren’t at the game, it didn’t happen. Was it included in the Sportscene programme? If it did was anything said? Or more of the ‘nothing to see here Timmy ‘?
Long time lurker; sharing a link non-football related but well within the ethos of Celtic in wanting to help the underprivileged. I watched this documentary last night and it is truly inspirational. Also, if you do watch it and feel moved, it is not difficult to find a way to contribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49QEQsNUj0&ab_channel=Netflix
Steady paul67 – you are starting to sound positive !!!
67ECW
So Sly Sports servicing the needs of Sevco supporters to the detriment of ours?
Hhmm.
Cancel the service and spend the savings on one PPV per month?
We can pick and choose our fair (by price and quality) …..
….. and cut out a nasty middle man in the process.
Re Saturday, agree Kyogo wasted on the wing.
Mikey J did fine but first touch really frustrating.
Thought Juranovic did well on his “wrong” wing.
Good spatial awareness and went looking for work when he could.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 1:31
Good spatial awareness and went looking for work when he could.
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That’s a good point. In fact, it is noticeable that all of the players are looking for the ball / making themselves available.
I remember an early scouting report on Ange – one of the many details that help with his ‘process’ is that the player with the ball should always have at least two options for a pass. That’s happening right in front of our eyes.
The football is a real treat to watch.
HH
BGFC
Trust The Process CSC
With regards to the Hibs TV price and paying for Sky Sports. It’s no wonder people use IPTV services like IPTV Main, you can get 3 months TV for the price of 1 PPV game.
GARNGAD TO CROY on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 1:58 PM
With regards to the Hibs TV price and paying for Sky Sports. It’s no wonder people use IPTV services like IPTV Main, you can get 3 months TV for the price of 1 PPV game.
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As I don’t have Sky sports I will have a look at the Iptv route. Here’s 👍
Cheers. Lol.
Marspapa
Start off with a month (£10 to £12) , see if it works ok, then if you are happy with it sign up for something longer.
GARNGAD TO CROY on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 2:53 PM
Marspapa
Start off with a month (£10 to £12) , see if it works ok, then if you are happy with it sign up for something longer.
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Magic, that’s a wee Job for the son in law, he does the technical stuff for me. 👍
Paul67
Mikey Johnston looked very sharp when he came on, problem is still the same in that despite being 23 he’s not around long enough to make a supporters judgement call. The signs remain that he’s a player who might never produce a run of game starts without injury, and the next step is to start and finish one game, never mind become a regular. Leil Abada is 19 and has been fit and ready therefore the better option IMO, it’s ironic that we also have a decision to make on Jota and four players vying for wing berths with James Forrest still trying to recover from injury.
It’s time to start Johnston, do it at Easter Rd he’ll never be fitter.
One game at a time.
On to Easter Road on Wednesday. Hibs away has not been a easy game for us in recent years. However, after good early season form Hibs have lost their last 3.
If we play like our last two away games then we will take the points. I cant wait,
Last time MJ was out for a long time, months if I recall, he should have spent the time transforming from willow the wisp to something more like Ronaldo. Someone that has the physique to withstand hard challenges. No point in being fast and tricky when you can get blown off your feet.
Who is the Sports Chief at Sky who makes the decisions to blatantly gives ex Rangers Players contracts as co Comentators and anyilists on Sky ,I think every football supporters apart from the Huns why is that,so who or she and there are plenty of them to that work for Sky Sports
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 12:57 PM
Marspapa
Our club should put forward a motion to propose the banning of astroturf in premier division.
Now possible to get the 11-1 majority required for any change as there is only one pitch in the division.
Might be a while before the opportunity presents itself again.
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I’m not sure but I think there might be a requirement to have a majority vote that includes all four divisions also. Hopefully not.
ernie lynch
“But I don’t think it’s ever been a secret that the Cork born billionaire de facto owner of Celtic wants to get Celtic out of Scotland and into a bigger and better league.”
I have seen you refer to that quite often. Do you have any factual evidence?
TIMBHOY163 on 25TH OCTOBER 2021 3:50 PM
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Our’s, Celtic (open to all), Irish & Catholic, is a minority community in Scotland (c16%), therefore it should come as no surprise that we are outnumbered in all influential areas that affect us: e.g. Sport, Media and Politics. Companies and ruling administrations in Scotland will always look to stay on side with the majority (84%) if a divisive issue arises; it’s self-evidently vital to their interests and survival. Push-back from a 16% minority is much easier to deal with, or, ignore, as the case may be.
The abarrent attitudes and behaviour that has poured out of Ibrox over many years is testament to the above. If the Indy nonsense were ever to materialise, the screw would undoubtedly tighten. The “what school’ question might return, but only for the brief period it will take to phase-out Catholic Education – every cloud has a ‘silvery-blue’ lining.
percentages man is back typing 100% pish.
Good luck to Celtic Bs tonight at Cumbernauld. This team has to score more goals. Joey Dawson has disappeared from the scene, maybe Joe McHugh can find out the reason. He wasn’t involved in the 4-3 Youth Cup win.
I think Scotland need more than a bit of luck to reach Afghanistan’s total in Dubai.