On Wednesday night an exhausted Matt O’Riley was singing the praises of Tynecastle after making his SPFL debut.
Things were cranked up a notch today with the crowd more than trebled for Dundee United’s visit to Celtic Park with the drama of a last gasp winner thrown into the mix.
Within the space of four days O’Riley has had a crash course on what Celtic is all about- by Thursday morning his head could be exploding after sampling the Glasgow derby with his new club knowing that a win takes them to the top of the SPFL Premiership.
First game at Celtic Park..
What a place!?
Support was incredible today. We got there in the end!? @CelticFC pic.twitter.com/FuxVwxq7C5— Matt O’Riley (@mattoriley8) January 29, 2022
It was a day of tension for O’Riley’s new side as they toiled to take advantage of the points dropped by Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side in the lunchtime clash with Ross County.
Dundee United’s spoiling tactics looked like delivering a point but in 90th minute Liel Abada popped up with the winner to set off remarkable celebrations as the countdown to Wednesday’s match.
It makes my day when teams who waste so much time are suckered late and don’t have time to respond…Doesn’t do much for my nerves though.
very true
The horrible to watch tactics of a team coming with one target only, to stop their opponents score came back to haunt Dundee United today.
The blatant time wasting tactics, completely ignored by an extremely incompetent ref are a sad fact of why these clubs will never be anything.
How shameful that a team playing out of Tannadice are so negative! As much as he had a lot of SFA help, Jim McLean will be turning in his grave!
This outfit had no intention of looking for a win, a fact proven due to their failure to have a single shot on target over 90 minutes!
If ever the Scottish game lived up to it’s hopeless reputation as only having two teams, today was proof that Dundee United are certainly not one of them!
Don’t disagree with the general comments. However, these teams do not have our player resources. Their only realistic option is to try to stop us winning. Today we did what we failed to in Paisley before Christmas. What is vital is that we sharpen our cutting edge.
Maybe some training with corners would help? 14 Today and never got close like we did in the O’Neil days.
I am happy for us but United do what they had to do. We were doing the same at the end of Tynecastle. It will stay that way until you have a real clock stopping when ball is out of play, it will not happen.
When teams line up to stop us playing our type of football then we must have a plan b to change then fck their tactics up. Simple. Need a solid centre half.