Outclassed? Disaster? Nightmare? Are you joking Ally- Sutton hits out at pundits Celtic pile on

Chris Sutton has called out Ally McCoist for following the lead of some English pundits that have lumped the two Glasgow sides together in their Champions League failures.

Both clubs are in bottom place in their group without a win between them but there the likeness ends.

Football is about fine margins, Celtic could well have won both matches against Shakhtar Donetsk, especially if they had an outstanding talent like Mykhaylo Mudryk who scored home and away against the hoops.

In their three defeats Celtic were very much in the game, after 50 minutes in each match they were level with supporters able to see progress and evolution even if the final outcome was the same as the 4-1 defeats they were suffering home and away to Sparta Prague under Neil Lennon two years ago.

TalkSPORT is usually the source of much of the banding together and bashing. Anyone taking a look will realise that Celtic don’t have a 1-19 goal difference topped by the humiliation of a 7-1 home defeat from a mid-table EPL side.

In the Daily Record Sutton explains:

Listen, I’m not running around throwing flowers at Celtic because, at the end of the day, they will finish bottom of Group F. They have come up short. Football is a results business and, if you don’t get them, it is right that performances are scrutinised and displays analysed.

That’s the problem. I don’t see much analysis. People are generalising Scottish football and just lumping results all into one bracket. Wrong. Coming out with phrases like disaster and humiliating for all. It is lazy and it is stupid. I’m hearing pundits south of the border making statements about the Scottish game being fourth tier and it’s just plain ignorance. If that wasn’t bad enough, my old pal Ally McCost agreed with one of them this week. Are you joking, Ally?

Postecoglou is trying to implement a style and adopt a positive approach that can make Celtic better in Europe now and the future. He said they were going to try and play their way and they have done so.

Fair enough, they are out, but you cannot seriously tell me they have been outclassed, or out of their depth, or been cannon fodder? Could you look at any of the five performances that Postecoglou’s team have put up and called them a disaster? Or a nightmare?

If you do, if you match them up and lazily stick them in the same basket with Rangers’ weak performance in Amsterdam, or lack of ambition at Anfield, or capitulation at home to Liverpool or Motherwell losing to Sligo, Dundee United’s seven in Alkmaar, you either didn’t watch the games or you don’t have the first clue about football.

Celtic conclude this season’s Champions League campaign away to Real Madrid on Wednesday.