26 Aug 2026 09:20:09
Last nights performance has left me angry and embarrassed. There are many failings at board level but 4-0 up with 65 to play this defeat rests with the players and the manager.
MO knew we had no physicality in the midfield and started with Nygren away from home. He offers nothing when defending or tracking back. When we lost the ball he never sprinted back once. To add to his inadequacy he blindly passes back to concede the first goal.
All night we played long balls from the keeper to Hogh and couldn’t win a second ball if our lives depended on it. Giving away any control within the game and inviting Constant pressure. 40 shots against us caused by this horrible tactic. Where were the players around Hogh to pick up the second balls? Was the plan to have the flimsy Nygren to win the second balls? The guy couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
Bringing on Tounetki was a terrible substitution. He offered nothing in attack or defence and constantly lost ball when in the attacking 3rd. Hassan should have been brought on for an out ball with Duran playing centrally to support Hogh. Durans work rate would have made a difference in the middle of the park.
The gaps between defence and midfield and midfield and upfront were criminal. We looked like a Sunday league team. A whole uninterrupted week to drill the team but no sign of it on the night. The front 3 were pressing high with no connectivity of midfield and defence.
Tounetki, McCown and Ralston are not good enough to play for our club. They need replaced immediately. To come on with fresh legs and to give the ball away the way they did was Criminal and should never get the honour of wearing a Celtic shirt again.
26 Aug 2026 10:34:21
How can he add physicallity when there is none in the squad?
26 Aug 2026 10:39:04
I swear if I could've jumped through the telly last night I would have grabbed Tounetki and balled him out on his laziness.
So, why did our manager not do it?
26 Aug 2026 10:54:30
Duran was as bad if not worse.
26 Aug 2026 11:01:01
DRB he cannot add a player he does not have but he can solidify the midfield with the options available.
How many times were Nygren and Baur in the final 3rd during transitions? It was like playing with 2 x CAM with McGregor isolated. Zero discipline in the middle of the park. Adjustments should have been made at half time and if they were they were they were not carried out by the team.
We can talk all day about the players available. The shape and set up are down to the manager and the team executing his instructions. When physicality is missing compactness is required. The gaps between the lines were abhorrent.
26 Aug 2026 11:38:48
How many times have we seen this now. Beaten by a competent, big, strong, physical, hard working team. We have a midfield that has been screaming out for a strong physical midfielder for years. Technically nice and tidy on the ball but not good enough to make up for their lack of physicality and legs in midfield, every one the same, that's our midfield.
We ended up with Ralston, Scales, Murray, Mccowan, Hatate and Tounetki on the field trying to win us a Champions League qualifier. When you look at those players, what realistic chance do you have. Nobody played well on the night and that has to be a mentality issue as well as a lack of genuine quality.