Adam Idah celebrates with Daizen Maeda after Loris Benito of BSC Young Boys (not pictured) concedes an own goal, resulting in the first goal for Celtic, during the UEFA Champions League match between Celtic FC and BSC Young Boys at Celtic Park on January 22, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
LORD KATSUMOTO – 7/10 – Wouldn’t be a CL campaign without the ubiquitous Daizen red card for handbags at dawn. Spoiled, for him, yet another terrific display at this level – hounding their back four, ripping up his direct opponent a number of times, just looking in his groove with turns, flicks and even fancies causing YB all sorts of hassle. And he know, being Japanese, all about soy – and how these officials are very much soyboys
(© strained phonetic puns)…So, with one impetuous wee kick at Huggy Bear, we now miss our closing-down machine for the big visit to the tourist league OGs next week. Pray there’s not additional suspension meted out by those abstract pussies at UEFA.
UEFA Champions League Celtic Glasgow vs Young Boys Bern, Celtic Park. Goal celebration by Kyogo Furuhashi however VAR rules out the goal. Photo Joeran Steinsiek IMAGO
KILLER MUSHROOM – 7/10 – “Hat-trick, ya? I get hat-trick…What wrong wi’ you? You no’ understand? Gimmie it, you soyboy pussyman…” snarled Kyogo as he tried to wrestle the ball off the ref at full-time. In a season where Playstaton FIFA virgins everywhere keep highlighting his comparatively lower goals return, it’s games like these which tell the somewhat different underlying story behind the facts. Bluntly, he was pretty deadly and pretty
unlucky; as unlucky as you’ll see in the CL. Absolutely no worries about his form, movement or instinct. Just shows you what the little guy can (almost) achieve when you actually play to his strengths…
Nicolas Kuhn of Celtic attempts a kick for score his goal during the UEFA Champions League match between Celtic FC and BSC Young Boys at Celtic Park on January 22, 2025. Photo JustPictures.ch
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TAKINTE – 6.5/10 – Play the Kuhn! Play TO the Kuhn! might have been the more percipient cry… A number of opportunities to release him early, beyond their high line, were squandered in a YB tactical set-up that was a gift from Henrik (Ghod), knowing Kuhn’s style. As it was, we mysteriously kept his service at what seemed a fraction of what it should have been. Didn’t stop him causing a little chaos now and then, but it felt like we were rationing the opportunities to get him on the ball at pace running at them.
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