I was surprised Ronny Deila thought immediately after the game that Dedryck Boyata’s red card was valid, from the angle behind the goal it looked a well-time tackle, but let’s deal with the manager’s complaint against the player, who put a challenge in when wrong side of the attacker.
We’ve see three Celtic central defenders in this position in recent weeks: Efe against Ross County, Erik against Inverness and Dedryck last night. Erik was outpaced by Jordan Roberts but instead of risking a challenge from behind his opponent, he stayed on his feet and forced Roberts to shoot under pressure. Efe clumsily barged into his opponent and Dedryck went to ground.
All three got their starting positions wrong, which could have cost a goal, but Ambrose and Boyata compounded the problem by attempting a recovery, also from a wrong position. Sviatchenko chose to put pressure on the player and leave matters up to his goalkeeper. Erik made the right decision, Efe and Dedryck made wrong decisions.
And before Erik relaxes in the glow of praise, it was his unnecessary barge into an opponent which conceded the foul which led to the corner kick Accies equalised through. Don’t give away stupid fouls and you don’t allow opponents to fire the ball into your box.
And yes, the goal we lost came from a corner kick (I’m assuming those who were animated earlier in the season about zonal marking somehow overlook the same lack of ball-winning skills from the same players now we’re marking man-for-man). I’ve never known a team to lose so many goals from corners. We have a collection of players who cannot follow the flight of a football when launched into their box from a corner.
I know there’s a belief that you cannot practice penalty kicks, as the pressure of hitting them during a match changes everything. This is nonsense. Our poor penalty conversion rate over the last five or six years has cost us trophies. Ironically, John Collins has the best penalty conversion rate of any player in Celtic history (who’s taken more than 5). You would think he’d be able to sort this.
Poor technique is a consequence of poor preparation.
When Leigh Griffiths opened the scoring from the penalty spot it came as a great relief, as until then we were unable to create a genuine chance. A big part of the job at Celtic is breaking down packed defences away from home. There are largely two ways to achieve this:
1. Master the act of quick and precise passing
2. Have target men and wide players who are excellent at crossing the ball.
If we don’t have either play in our locker we’re going to drop a lot of points.
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‘The Holding Company Was Liquidated’ is a truly astonishing ‘lie’, relying as it does on a retrospective engineering of Company Law reaching all the way back to 1899 purely to:
– give deluded and intimidation-minded fans a good night’s sleep; and
– allow governing bodies and parts of the sports media to avoid thinking of Scottish football as an actual sport which requires celebration of all of its clubs.
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Excellent :))
Ah well, happy are the RD haters today then eh?
They just love it when Celtic drop points, the agenda bus back in motion, it’s not like any Celtic supporters I’v ever known, I’m just glad I don’t run with people like that, don’t get me wrong I know them and distance myself from them at all times, these people I know like the ones in here just will never be happy, you’ll never be able to please them, and the ones who are involved in groups are the worse, no one is right but them, they had a meeting and that’s it we’re right.
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Headless chicken time again Tony.
‘Agenda’ suggests those questioning Deila, or those who would like to see him replaced, have a pre-meditated dislike of the man and had his card marked from day one.
That is simply not the case. Even following early European debacles in which tatical errors were made he was given a chance and frequently had his name chanted home and away by the Celtic support.
Many fans, probably now a majority, have lost all confidence in him as a manager for footballing reasons. The number of players signed on his watch who are evidently not good enough, the sometimes bizarre team selection/substitutions, the failure to publicly back a player who tried to play the ball(unless its a leg breaker, you back your player), the strict adherence to a system even when its not working, the inability to see out a lead(Malmo, Ajax, Fenerbache) and the lack of inspiration and fight when we need a goal.
Ronny is a shrinking violet and the project hasn’t worked.
This isn’t an agenda Tony, this is evidence based critique from many of us who stood and chanted his name in support in the earlier days.
The process of recruiting a replacement has to begin now and give everyone a fresh start in the summer and renewed hope of seeing a reinvigorated Celtic.
HH
Gary67
Stop talking sense it has no place on this blog.
Bsr@12.26 respect
For anyone to young to remember looking in……
that is what journalism is meant to look like.
HH
La Bella Italia .
Napoli forward , Lorenzo Insigne was mugged in Napoli while out with his wife on Saturday night
Mugging completed , one of the muggers instructed Insigne to ” score a goal for us on Monday ” ( Napoli play Fiorentina tonight )
traditionalist88 on 29th February 2016 12:41 pm
Quick question. Was the system not working when it put us into the lead in Europe or only when individual errors cost us the lead?
Good afternoon all
LEFTCLICKTIC
Good afternoon , how are you ?
new article posted.
weeminger on 29th February 2016 12:54 pm
traditionalist88 on 29th February 2016 12:41 pm
Quick question. Was the system not working when it put us into the lead in Europe or only when individual errors cost us the lead?
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A broken clock is right twice a day. I tend to take a result as being the score after 90 minutes plus injury time, not at a selected point during the match.
There are so many problems at our club at the moment which cannot be negated by simply looking at mistakes from individual players.
A ruthless manager in the dugout would see a huge reduction in the old ‘costly individual errors’. Poor Ronny eh, being let down by the players HE picks.
The ‘if he hadnt done that, we’d have won…’ routine is tiresome. It goes so much deeper.
If yer auntie had…
HH
RE-LAUNCHING RONNY
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Ronny must come out fighting – acknowledge the negatives and accentuate the positives.
CL – he must say that although we have failed, it was down to one poor performance each time – we had put ourselves in a winning position on both occasions, but sub-par displays let us down ‘on the day’ – he must say lessons have been learned.
DOMESTIC- he must say that two ordering-offs may have deprived us of back to back trebles – however that is football and we look for a double to finish the season.
SQUAD – he must explain the recruitment policy – why we are so high in numbers – what was the thinking behind Cifti and Cole etc – and where are we going from here. He must scotch, or, otherwise the suggestion that he does not authorise all signings.
As someone suggested earlier, the surfeit of midfield players may have, by design, resulted in a ‘take it or leave it’ negotiation strategy with some who are soon to be out of contract.
It may not be a bad thing- we may be attempting to get at least two years stability in the squad, whilst reducing the numbers – “if you are not committed for the medium-term, then goodbye’
There is no doubt that we do not get value from our £38 million/year wage bill – it is, and will be next season, more than all other Premiership clubs added together. Maybe a new and more realistic figure is being worked on for the squad in general.
Again maybe not a negative thing – it could allow us to bring in a couple of top- class experienced players, outwith the pay structure, to play alongside an inexperienced young hungry squad.