27 Aug 2026 14:28:16
Celtic have usually been good at seeing games out over the years but our game management on Tuesday was woeful.
When LASK made it 4-1 in the last minute it felt like they had scored the winner because of the way the match had went plus the players Celtic had left on the pitch.
I was looking at the damaging crucial 90 minute and injury time goals we have conceded over the years.
I make it Celtic have not conceded a crucial domestic winner against us since Hearts in July 2021 with no Celtic fans in Tynecastle.
( 233 domestic games ago )
We have conceded a handful of damaging crucial equalisers since.
We have conceded equalisers twice and Fir Park and MacDermid Park but then went back up the park and scored the winner.
The 2 closest feelings to Tuesday night in the last 5 years have happened in Europe.
We lost an injury time Munich equaliser but that knocked us out.
Plus the only other injury time winner Celtic have conceded in the last 5 years happened at home to Lazio 2-1 a few years ago.
It was a bad feeling conceding that crucial 4th goal on Tuesday but it doesn’t happen to us often.
Celtic have scored crucial last gasp goals nearly 20 times over that same last 5 year period.
27 Aug 2026 16:33:22
Clutching at straws here but I know it was said Trusty had a stomach bug, is it possible it was more widespread in the team given how many were blowing after the 60 minute mark.
Just can’t ever recall a whole squad of players playing so bad after what was a decent start to the game.
27 Aug 2026 16:25:46
Buzz a junior team coukd have seen that out I knew when nygren gave the first goal away said my boys this could be crucial and we capitulated.
27 Aug 2026 17:50:29
That was the turning point for me. I think if Nygren hadn't given away that sitter we would have seen it out.
It seemed to terrify us, the fact that they had scored to even the tie.
27 Aug 2026 17:56:22
It was a certainty that LASK would be visiting Lisbon on our 60th Anniversary season.
Maybe we will get Benfica tomorrow.