But there is no excuse for losing to a team that was easier to break down than St Mirren at the weekend. If Georgios Samaras is unfit, then his place should have been taken by Cillian Sheridan (himself unimpressive in the time he was on).
What is the story with Samaras in Champions League games?
The man with the lowest pulse rate in the SPL has been conspicuously bad in his European ventures for Celtic, panicking into making no decision, rather even than the wrong one in front of goal.
And ridiculous decision-making is one of the major criticisms to be levelled at Celtic especially away from home. How many times did Andreas Hinkel play the ball backwards rather than across the field? How many times did Celtic players pass to Aalborg players rather than find their own men?
Aalborg are the worst side Celtic have ever faced in the Champions League group stages, yet still the Danes managed to take four points.
Gordon Strachan could do worse than offer his own explanations. I didn’t see what happened off the field preceding Shaun Maloney’s arrival, one minute before the end of ordinary time. I’m quite glad as, for several minutes prior to that, I had been predicting that Gary Pendrey would be drawing diagrams three minutes before the end.
It’s too easy to name names of players who badly let Celtic down – Scott McDonald, for example – but that would be to exonerate the rest. Boruc, Wilson, Brown and Robson can perhaps be given pass marks.
Territorial dominance and creating chances mean nothing if you throw away chances and bring poor teams into games with absurd passing and players who look like they should be in their beds. If you do you that you deserve to lose.
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2 comments:
totally spot on
payback for the lack of ambition shown in the summer - bright side is no more mony from me this season ! - still be there for villareal and for winning the league our real priority since champions league day one shite
i'm just sick to the stomache but its no real surprise is it?
from the day the huns humped us big time we have been hiding behind the spl results, a league that it now looks like aalburg would do rather well.
the postmortem will centre on wgs and some of the players, and rightly so, but it seems to me that the board are in the end to blame.
this is because the board have been playing the 'just enough' game i.e just enough to keep ahead of the huns and just enough to do reasonably well in europe...hence no big investment, certainly none to match mon's era, well now that policy is comin home big time as we have been exposed for what we really are- a second rate team with a world class support.
i think its time we gave the board the message in no uncertain terms, that is, dont keep promising the next step up. dont keep promising that we'r in the hunt for the top euro players... just be honest...stop bull shittin us.
so, aye, the team is poor, yes wgs makes some baffling decisions... but ultimately i think that the buck stops at the boardroom door, they keep telling us what a world class club we are... its time the bosrd began to act like we are.
john d manchester
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