Soccer Football - Copa Sudamericana - Semi final - Second Leg - Lanus v Velez Sarsfield - Estadio Ciudad de Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina - January 13, 2021 Lanus' Alexandro Bernabei celebrates scoring their third goal Pool via REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
After a fairly dramatic match at Perth on Saturday the first SPFL Premiership start of Alexandro Bernabei has gone relatively overlooked.
After signing Jota and Cameron Carter-Vickers the young left-back from Argentina was Celtic’s most expensive summer signing but the form of Greg Taylor kept Bernabei firmly in the background.
Away to Dundee United he got a 10 minute run out with Celtic well in command which prompted a starting slot against Ross County in the League Cup. Saturday at St Johnstone was the real deal.
Bernabei has clearly been applying himself in training, after an energetic 90 minutes he still had the energy to overlap and whip in the cross that allowed Giorgos Giakoumakis to save thousands of weekends with the winning goal.
Wee nutmeg from Bernabei ? pic.twitter.com/lXeufV0Awu
— William (@wilbomca) October 10, 2022
The clip above shows the early confidence shown by the 22-year-old. Instantly he was comfortable taking the ball from Stephen Welsh and pushing forward to back up Jota during the first half.
Celtic’s fixture card over the next five weeks should give Bernabei a couple of outings. Saturday’s outing showed that he can be trusted in the SPFL Premiership, tougher tests await but the signs from Saturday suggest that the club’s first Argentinian is ready for whatever is in store.
It’s hard for Celtic_fc_1888 defenders they can’t just hoof the ball to sidelines hoping for ball to be put out for shy or hoof it through the middle let there forwards run at our defenders without looking at ball gakoumakis can’t touch a defender he gets the foul against him why our defenders get treated the exact opposite plus we just don’t hoof it up the park we are told to play it along they back Celtic-FC_1888 way so can’t take punters who have played the game even under intense pressure our defenders try and pass it out that is very hard yes you get a miss pass but when it goes right it gets the applause it deserves from supporters who have watch football and know there game don’t need to play to know your football no hoovers at celtic Park pure football the celtic way and all it brings that’s why we have 60,000 at home games and the hoovers 9 of them have less than 5,000