Liam Scales

Hard to give credit to any defence that has shipped 7 goals.

 

I'm not a massive fan of his footballing ability, but I can't deny that he's got the mentality to play for Celtic.

The guy never ever hides, never. He gives his all as well. Thought he was our best player tonight, which isn't saying much.

But our captain, and fellow midfielders were a * disgrace tonight.

 

Could have been 15 if it wasn’t for scales and schmeichel

 

Been as big a critic as you’ll meet but we conceded 7 and I still think he was our best player.

 

Scales is not the problem.. some fans will be better off when they let that sink in..

 

Tbf I think it’s wholly agreed now at this point of the season he’s not losing that centre half position. Will just be a case of CCV dropping out whenever he needs a rest. Just hope that’s not in any of the harder remaining CL games.

Trusty will do a job for us as he has got ability. But he’s not better than those 2

 

I thought he was good and was pretty much the only guy in the defence that you could say that about. Made a lot of key interceptions, defended well one on one and was good on the ball.

He was horribly exposed though, had zero trust in his other CB who by the last half hour it was more likely to see him covering the RCB position as well. Desperately missed CCV in there but the biggest issue was the covering infront of him.

 

Celtic shirts don't shrink to fit inferior player.

But you do get some player who grow into the shirt. Scales is one of those.

 

See that annoys me, guys like him when he was at Bohemians we should be all over that market in contact with these sort of promising players.

EPL is bigger than us in Ireland but there’s still a big presence and good feeling towards us, we don’t use that affinity at all.

 

Folk will be complaining about young Liam when he's playing for Barca.

 

Daft for the penalty but had a good game overall.

 

Lapse in concentration not to pull his arm in when blocking the cross, bit unlucky but all is forgiven since he’s been brilliant for us this season.

 

Made a couple of brilliant interceptions towards the end.

 

Thought he was really good outwith that penalty..

Been our most consistent defender this season..

 

Isn't taking as long on the ball this season, I've noticed. That's an improvement.

 

There was a part of one of the UEFA interviews they did with Cal recently where he mentioned part of Scales' job is to keep the ball to suck in defenders. Made me wonder if a lot of the stick we've given Scales for dwelling on the ball for too long (which he's definitely doing much less this season) was actually just him following instructions.