Celtic TV’s Unique Angle, as it usually does, perfectly captures the decisive moments in the latest Celtic match, this time the first away match of the new Scottish Premiership campaign as Liel Abada, Kyogo and Matt O’Riley all got on the scoresheet in a match that Chris Sutton described as “a great advert for the Scottish game”.
Aberdeen filled their stadium, so there were no embarrassing empty sections as we are likely to have on Sunday at Rugby Park when Kilmarnock are choosing empty seats over paying punters, giving Celtic just 3,971 tickets for one stand behind a goal.
If Killie could reasonably expect to sell their tickets for the other three stands then fair play to them and that would absolutely be the correct thing to do to maximise their home advantage against the League Cup holders. That too would be a decent advert for the Scottish game, but given it’s a cup game, their season ticket holders will be asked to spend additional money on tickets, it seems unlikely to say the least that there will be more Killie fans than empty seats in those three stands.
And for the overall look of the Scottish game that is embarrassing.
The other thing about yesterday was that Barry Robson, who later described the match as “a right good game of football”, had a go at Celtic and had the Champions rattled on several occasions during a match that was never settled until Matt O’Riley scored the third Celtic goal in the closing stages.
Contrast with that awful Aberdeen defensive performance at Pittodrie at the start of the year which nearly got Jim Goodwin a point against Celtic – Callum McGregor scored the only goal of the game in the last few minutes – but ultimately set Aberdeen on a terrible downward spiral and ultimate was the root cause of Goodwin losing his job.
Credit to Barry Robson for setting his team up with attack in mind, looking to entertain the Aberdeen fans and get the three points. Aberdeen season ticket holders look like getting good value for money this season and not many teams will do as Celtic have just done and leave Pittodrie with the three points.
Here’s the Unique Angle, enjoy!
🎟️Tickets for the #ViaplayCup away fixture vs. Kilmarnock on Sunday, August 20 are now on sale to eligible STH.
The Club received an allocation of 3,971 tickets for this match.
— Celtic FC Tickets (@CelticFCTickets) August 10, 2023
Here’s Celtic playing well at Kilmarnock on this day last year…
A year ago today, Kilmarnock 0:5 Celtic.
Kyogo, Jota, Jenz, Starfelt and Giakoumakis. @Kyogo_Furuhashi pic.twitter.com/YoM12RoFcq
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) August 13, 2023
Meanwhile, check out Matt Corr speaking to the one and only Martin O’Neill on The Celtic Star Podcast…
