Charlie Christie’s boy reckons that after scoring five goals on trips to Pittodrie and Easter Road, Celtic could and should have avoided dropping four points in the process and he points the fingers at the defensive lapses that has caused the 3-3 and 2-2 draws as Celtic slip further behind theRangers with the prospect of Ten-in-a-Row happening widening to 3-1 at the bookies.
Ryan Christie reckons Celtic were dominating the game at Easter Road then found themselves 2-0 down and picks up on the lack of follow through at the penalty save by Scott Bain. The defensive laps is also down to the team selections and The Celtic Star among others called very vocally for Elhamed to be installed into the side at the weekend to tighten the defence in the right back spot.
Christie is also critical of the defending at the second goal – yet he is as culpable as Jeremie Frimpong (who is a right winger not a right back, Neil, if you’re reading this), but simply overlooks that one. He finished up more positively by insisting his focus is to get back to his best form for his club.
“We’ve come away from home here to a hard place and scored two goals – that should be enough to be honest,” Ryan said to the media, as reported by Scottish Sun. “We’re NOT expecting to come here and have the game wrapped up after half an hour – we knew it might be a tight match, and that, if we have to win it by one goal, then that is fine.
“But we have to keep the door at the other end shut. It is something we need to work on – we have to stop the errors at the other end.
“At half-time I was thinking we had dominated the first half. I thought it was just a matter of time before we scored and went on to win. But then it went 2-0 to Hibs and I’m thinking ‘how on earth are we 2-0 down in this game?’
“It is frustrating. Obviously Bainy did so well to save the penalty but we didn’t really react to the follow-up, which is annoying.
“And then their second one is just so simple from a free-kick, and a great finish, but we could have done much more to stop it. Stuff like that kills you in games like this when you are dominating at such a tough place.
“We are always going to keep fighting. We’ve got that about us in the changing room. I think more than anything, at 2-0 down, it was just the complete shock of it. But we knew we needed to get something out of this game because we deserved it. We deserved at least a point.
“The goal was inevitable coming from us, because we kept fighting. If the game had had an extra five minutes I think we would have gone on and won it.
“But we shot ourselves in the foot – it was frustrating to find ourselves 2-0 down and having to claw our way back into it.
“I’m frustrated myself for not scoring against Hibs – I thought I might have been able to get on the score sheet but it wasn’t to be. I’m just looking to get up to top form with my club now.”
