Celtic 1 - 0 St. Johnstone

Forrest on for Abada and get the midfield playing quicker and less sloppy

 

Need to move the ball quicker at key moments. Not really taking advantage when St Johnstone do stretch themselves. Turnbull playing it far too safe again.

 

That referee must have been told to book bitton at the first opportunity. Crazy how he gets a yellow for his first foul when you consider some of the challenges he's let they hammer throwers away with.

 

Missing big tam big style in a game like this, first 5 minutes aside been pretty poor
Turnbull should have buried that first chance

 

The physical summary of our possession that half was Joe Hart almost getting caught out. Several of our players have a mentality that they should get as long as they want to do something. * knows where that comes from, presumably it’s a side affect of the pressure-managing mentality.

 

First 15 excellent next 30 dire

 

Other than the first 10 minutes when Turnbull should have scored we have been pish. Tippy tappy, backwards, side ways with no pace. Trying to walk it up the park, Hart got awaybwith one. They have carried out their game plan to a man and if we don't get sorted we are going to lose this to a set piece. We have got behind teams for the most part of the season by playing one touch at pace, why the * have the players decided to go out for a stroll today? We really need to get the finger out

 

Bitton off, don’t trust him with a yellow. Jamesy on. We’re not working the keeper enough.

 

Probably when he was giving his weekly PE lesson to the rangers kids….

 

Forrest on and hopefully see some angeball second half

 

Abada far too quiet again, its only Ralston who is contributing anything down the right side. Abada is only 20 and will be inconsistent but we are Celtic and cant afford to be carrying players in semi-final. The quicker Forrest gets up to speed the better.

 

They'll more than fancy their chances with set pieces though, and rightly so.
We need to up the tempo, massively.

 

* ten men in st johnstone defence . Joke

 

Turnbull is becoming a frustrating player, he should be doing more. As for that miss, no excuse.

 

Tbf they’re got to play to their strength s, horrible to watch as a spectacle but it’s worked so far
Wouldn’t mind taking a leaf out their book going to Leverkusen om Thursday

 

Terrible miss moravcik
, that goes in they have to come out and it’s a totally different game

 

St Johnstone are well drilled,they’ve been preparing for this game for 2 weeks now.We’ll break them down eventually.

 

Since few league games it's the one major thing we lack for some reason.

At first it was attributed to McGregor and kyogo being out (true), but it's still not quite there.

Good wins, solid run, exciting run, but that tempo and urgency we had back then hasn't quite been reached on a consistent basis since then.

It will come in time though. I'm sure of.

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