The problem of just four games a season
I myself am disappointed, we should have been more prepared for Europe after last year. Too be fair though, FC Sion are a better team than most Celtic fans give them credit. The Swiss league is on the up with a string of great European results over the last couple of years from a number of different teams. Still, it was a game I thought we would win. So why didn’t we?
Well there are a few things we could look at. Tactics were wrong in both games and we also had injuries to a few key players. These definitely factored but I thing there is a another more important reason that we have struggled over the last three years.
Lack of competition. I would like to ask a question of all the lads that thought we would stroll this game. What was that based on? The fact that we beat Hearts three times last year? Or the hammerings we handed out to Aberdeen? When was the last time a team outside of Glasgow did anything in Europe?
We finished 29 points ahead of Hearts last year. That is huge. That is how far the Old Firm is ahead of the rest of Scotland. We are only guaranteed four competitive domestic games every year.
How is a team supposed to improve when outside of Rangers every club they play against parks the bus home and away and pray they get a draw? Then we play away from home in Europe and we have a decent team attack us, our defence falls apart.
I don’t even blame Daniel Majstorovic, he looked genuinely surprised they attacked within 60 seconds. I think what this has shown is that the standard of the SPL is drastically dropping and something has to be done about it.
As the old saying goes, “You’re only as good as your company you keep.”
What changes would you implement to improve standard of the SPL?
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