Reo Hatate of Celtic celebrates scoring to tie the game 2-2 with Adam Idah of Celtic. Celtic v theRangers, Scottish Premiership, Celtic Park, 16 March 2025 Photo Stuart Wallace Shutterstock
HAKUNA HATATE – 7.5/10 MOTM – The ONLY Hooped hero who appeared to have his touch in from the start: that stunning strike producing the save of the game, and watch closely on 20 minutes – looking suave, in the groove, turning superbly, seeking a cohort. But despite lovely spatial play in the first-half, his endeavours fell short until the rest around him tuned-in later. So after the break we got peak Reo carving them open, nailing the equaliser and closing in on a spectacular winner. Unfortunately mostly everyone else just couldn’t maintain the
level of quality he’d found and his deserved and self-engineered triumph didn’t come to pass.
Nicolas Kuhn of Celtic and Ridvan Yilmaz of theRangers during the Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park, Celtic v theRangers, 16 March 2025. Photo O Rourke/Shutterstock
TAKINTE – 3/10 – What’s become of the German Jinky? Should have been Ridvan on toast for lunch but somehow the appearance of the Narnia escapee spooked Nick and not once did we get a Kuhn glide or uplifting piece of magic despite him being in dangerous possession several times and appearing on the brink of conjuring something. Incredibly disappointing.
Daizen Maeda of Celtic celebrates scoring his team’s first goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and theRangers at Celtic Park on March 16, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
LORD KATSUMOTO – 7/10 – Irrepressible Daizen does it again; terrific leap to nod us back in the game. Seemed to be leading the comeback assault and had Tavpen squealing like a pig for most of that second period. But our lack of service to him overall was criminal, and costly – no blame on him for today’s outcome.
Jota and Nicolas Kuhn of Celtic during the Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park, Celtic v Rangers, 16 March 2025 Photo O Rourke Shutterstock
NOTEBOOK – 7/10 – Whit? Subbed? The flaming ringleader of the Uprising? The mhan with the dancing feet and talent who was neglected for the opening half hour until we realised Nick and AJ were a worse double act than Burke and Hare for disposing of the deid. So Jota took it upon himself to single-handedly get into them – mad electric bursting runs with flailing limbs had them all at sea, defending desperately, keeper performing acrobatics and ultimately undid them as his perfect pitch laid on Daizen’s header. HE was the instigator, the twisted fire-starter and HE should have stayed on the park and be let run free like some hybrid of 80s popster and chainsaw-slaying Ash of Evil Dead fame; designed to ‘Skelp…
But no. Ego intervened. More of THAT later…
Lost the battle, the war still there.
There aren’t enough sweary words in the dictionary to describe yesterday’s performance. Are you sure Idah was on the park.and not some ghostly doppelganger?
Idah has been rotten since he came here on loan. One tap in rebound to win the cup last year had the majority of our fans demanding the board spent the money on him. Hearts certainly ruled heads in that instance.
Brendan must see that for over 270 minutes of football against Sevco, they have pressed and hurried our players into calamitous mistakes, leading to two gutless defeats and a win on penalties. When will he make the required adjustments and start training with tempo. I’ve never seen so many passes from a Celtic team not find their target in the last two games against Sevco. All because our players don’t get the usual time on the ball they do in other games, they are hurried, get nervous and ping it to space, out of play or even to a blue shirt. It has to be addressed immediately.