Aye its a friendly , aye were only 3 games in they're ½way through
Still this was the glamour game and imo we should've played the best we have, whilst not risking players too much.
Used the Osaka game to give the young kids a game since many played against Portimonense.
10 goals some game, really enjoyed that but I'd liked us to have taken it a little bit more seriously than our second half side and last ¼s performance seemed to have indicated.
I'm not complaining, well I am a wee bit, but I'm also aware we must protect our main men and give the kids a chance.
That said , you want to win these games ( I want to win these games, high profile ones friendly ir not )it was played at great pace though Id've been happy with a draw i thought it was plain to see that the Injection of the number of kids halfway to the last 20 minutes onto the field showed in experience or the lack of rather.
Seigrist was left exposed at all bar perhaps one of the goals he conceded at his near post so whilst not impressed by his performance, hard to criticise him for those goals conceded.
Summers looks good , not good enough yet to hold down a position imo though, or to break into the team even, other than some minutes at the end of some SPL/domestic cup games we have won with 10 minutes left I can't see anymore than that for him this season might be worth loaning out for a season.
We were good , far better than I expected all things considered but our B and fringe team ( which it mostly was) latter second half weren't good enough, i would like to watch that game again.
Was an exciting friendly , disgusted with muscat 's player time wasting in a friendly.
Some things never change ( just the venue they play in is the same and the attitude) he'll hate taking part in a Celtic promotion that's not involving Ange anymore.
Rodgers will have learned a lot from this but I won't hide my disappointment at believing this was the wrong game for those changes as we were better than them in their stadium up until those factors came into play around 70 minutes.
Could see our circumstances taking their toll around then.
One of our goals looked VARy offside but the penalty on Oh ?
Don't need to see that twice to guess biasedly it was one ( Japanese no likey Koreans) .
Very happy with our first 65-70 minute display and think we'd beat them in competitive fixture at full strength even taking into account the probably 15, 000 -20 , 000 crowd in a huge 72k stadium .
I also think that they will feel the same ( relief) , aye they won but where they are at in the season and fitness to us it was clear to see the joy on their faces at the end, that for me said it all.
An achievement for them beating us , a top European club.
Couldn't see the crowds majority numbers because some fool seems to have installed TV platforms in the main stand at every stadium in the world meaning we never see the majority of those who turned up cos the cameras are facing wrong way , so could only see the bottom tiers but main stand would've been full to near full.
Great to hear the number of bhoys singing "
Celtic Glasgow! " so we know plenty of the troops were there.
Even if we didn't get a good look at them unless I missed it.
Aye its small gripes for a friendly and those present won't forget that game in a hurry.
Harts going to have to cut out the usual , him and startlefoot.
Hart especially for its not guaranteed he's our no1 for the season to come, yet, regardless of how big a personality he is in the dressing room we simply cannot afford that in Europe, startlefoot as well though he can be forgiven knowing jacynta never made breakfast jammy... .....toast and jammy breakfast.
Impressive Celtic given we've only been on a plane for the majority of the last few days.
Minor gripes, not enough kids up to standard ,major positives our main men more than so.
Enjoyed that bar the result as I honestly believe we has that game until the early second half and wanted to beat them in their own backyard.
I think we showed enough to let it be seen in the first hour that regardless of how good they are we are better.
I'd place them top 3or 4 in SPFL division .
Keep the faith and give our main men more time if possible in high profile games.
That'll do for now HH
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