Chris Sutton sees something of his younger self in Giorgos Giakoumakis.
The Greek striker was picked to start his first SPFL match of the season today, suffered a glut of punishment from the St Johnstone defence with little sign of protection then popped up in the 94th minute to deliver a priceless winner.
An afternoon of frustration for Celtic looked like ending with a single point when Alex Mitchell equalised for the home side in the third minute of stoppage time.
Incredibly, 70 seconds later Giakoumakis delivered the perfect response when he got on the end of a brilliant cross from Alexandro Bernabei to score Celtic’s second goal. The top was off, he raced into the away support to celebrate and picked up a yellow card on his way back for the restart.
Gorgeous George actually Christopher ?????
— Colin Anderson (@bigbhoy15) October 8, 2022
In truth Giakoumakis bailed out some of his misfiring team-mates with Liel Abada and Daizen Maeda especially wasteful around goal.
It took an own goal from Andy Considine to put Celtic in front but with ‘Big George’ in the side there is no such thing as a lost cause- even if it is deep into injury time, away from home on the rebound from a Champions League defeat.
plenty of possession but no end product celtic not great at the moment but as long as we keep winning in the spl till we get back to better form long way to go in this leauge. Tuesday night match a good win will get the team going and fans still open for second place but Europa looks like for us .
We are skating on thin ice at the moment with these results,if we don’t get our act together we will suffer a 3 or nil skelping.Oh and don’t shoot the messenger.
At least one of the “offside” goals definitely wasn’t offside, but that baldy linesman wasn’t allowing anything even in line to stand.
That’s why we need to take the chances when they present; to nullify the effects of these corrupt cheating bastards.
P.S.Another dodgy penalty awarded at Ibrox by sevco employee Nick Walsh.