Pat Bonner watched an old familiar movie last night as Celtic crashed out of the Europa League following a 3-2 defeat from Bayer Leverkusen.
With 80 minutes on the clock Ange Postecoglou’s side were closing in on a famous victory and a Matchday 6 show-down at home to Real Betis.
After six minutes of stoppage time it was time to study the Europa Conference and take comfort from scoring eight goals on the road across Germany, Spain and Hungary.
This season’s campaign is night and day from last season’s horrors but everyone inside the game knows that you’ll not make progress shipping three goals per game.
On Radio Scotland Bonner warned:
You can talk all about the good work all you want, but if you can’t keep the ball out of the net, then you’ll get nowhere. The attacking football is great to watch but defensively it’s just as important.
Celtic’s attacking edge will always leave their defence vulnerable, solving the issues at the back without taking too much away from their attacking instincts is the conundrum that Postecoglou has to resolve.
Domestically it shouldn’t be too much of an issue but European opponents pose a far more clinical test.
Can’t agree more with pat look at all the very good teams defence just important as attack if not more important ange got it wrong again regarding europe but will need to get the defence much stronger and midfield woefully to light weight it needs a powefull no nonsense player their ASAP and with a bit of pace.
What is required is Kennedy to be sacked. This is the guy who has been responsible for the centre backs and rest of the defence under 3/ 4 managers and continues to lose goals at a horrible rate from set pieces free kicks and corners. Get a good defence coach and buy two really good centre backs who can play the ball out without panicking.
Ange’a style requires football players not guys who are ok in SPFL but guys capable of defending in Europe.
Kennedy has a job for life at Celtic
Ange is a one track manager he forgets there’s two halves on a football pitch if Ralston is our best defender what does that say to the rest of defence attacking policy is good lossing more than you score is bad waken up ange get the defence sorted or we will win nothing in Europe talk to Martin O’Neil about defenders
Pat Bonner is nothing but another soup taker. The Token Tim on Radio Scotland. Talks a lot of s**te too. Not worth listening to.
Sorry Ange twice you have made calamitous mistake that has cost us against Livingston and last night never ever change a winning team!!! First rule of football and get a decent defence in January Coulson from Heats would be a good Start!!!!!
I would never replace Jota Kyogo as long as they could still run if they had stayed on I think Celtic would have won