We didn’t let ourselves down, but lack of quality is there for all to see, the board need to act if we want to compete…

If I’m being honest, I didn’t have much hope of of us pulling off a win last night in Rome, but for a while it looked as if we could do just that, only for the inevitable to happen. Yes we lost two quick fire goals in the last 10 minutes to brush aside any notion of a famous win in Rome for the second time in four years.

We played ok, and didn’t look in any danger until the final ten minutes, but we were devoid of any real quality in an attacking sense. We were missing the likes of Reo Hatate, Daizen Maeda, Liel Abada and Luis Palma and it showed.

James Forrest is past his best and Yang is not at the required level just yet. This of course meant Kyogo was starved of any real service and had a thankless task up top, although he was unlucky not to open the scoring early in the second half.

If we want to compete in Europe we need to add further quality, no projects but first team ready players.

Lazio brought on Ciro Immobile and Pedro and it proved pivotal in the outcome. We brought on Mikey Johnston and David Turnbull that’s the difference. Brendan has spoke of his desire to bring in quality over quantity, let’s hope the board are listening to his pleas.

Frankly the Celtic support has had enough of this and at £44 a ticket for home games we never win, the 60,000 rush to buy might slow down considerably next time we’re asked to commit up front.  And next year it will be four games not three at Celtic Park, assuming we qualify.

Just an Ordinary Bhoy

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