Celtic 1-1 Motherwell – The morning after a frustrating afternoon in Paradise…
Yesterday was a cold day, and those of us who headed to Paradise hoping to get warmed up by the football were left bitterly disappointed. Hopes were high after Brendan Rodgers made just one change to the side which comfortably took care of Aberdeen a fortnight ago, with Anthony Ralston coming in for Alistair Johnston at right back.
Those high hopes are unfounded. To be perfectly blunt, it was an absolute dire performance from Celtic. Dropping two points at home against a side who are winless in nine games is not good enough and was a god-send to our rivals in the title race, because it’s now well and truly back on folks.
Celtic lacked that precision and ruthlessness we witnessed against Aberdeen. We looked very pedestrian and short of belief which is concerning. As much as Motherwell’s time wasting and defensive tactics were annoying, our own performance was even more frustrating for the Celtic support, once again minus the Green Brigade and Celtic Bhoys.
Yes we had chances and we didn’t take them, and we missed yet another spot kick! It’s all our own making. Even for Motherwell’s equaliser, we went to sleep. To concede from a corner the way we did is not acceptable and Joe Hart had his very own ‘wit’s the goalie daein?’ moment with that bizarre star dance.
A couple of weeks ago Brendan wasn’t to happy about The Celtic Star’s question about missing penalties. Maybe it was a warning that that’s failed to be heeded.
So to be quite honest, we can’t complain about taking only a solitary point. Celtic didn’t play well enough to merit the win. We are still top and remain undefeated in the league, but that is now four dropped points at home to two sides in the bottom six. That in itself is something that should seriously concern us.
In his first season the during his first spell as Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers dropped just eight points, with four draws. If he wants to beat that record he is going to have to be perfect from here to the trophy day finishing line when he promised to meet the supporters outside the ground with the trophy.
It’s a promise that he’ll be held to. Brendan knows that, right?
Just an Ordinary Bhoy
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He MUST get Taylor out the team immediately, Hart will need to wait till January…
Move Scales to left back and bring in one of the tall centre half’s, it covers the weakness of Hart defending set pieces and will give us a huge advantage at attacking set pieces..
We had 8 corners in the first 30min yesterday (with brilliant delivery) and the closest we came was a Motherwell defender’s header, it’s not pretty but will be invaluable against teams like St Johnstone & Motherwell’s two banks of five – 20 yards from goal…
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