The Celtic Star
·20 octobre 2024
The Celtic Star
·20 octobre 2024
Celtic v Aberdeen – Reo Hatate celebrates scoring the first goal of the game during the Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park, Saturday October 19, 2024. Jane Barlow
The Scottish Champions let a two goal lead slip at home to Aberdeen but the focus now switches to the trip to Bergamo on Wednesday.
Speaking after Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Aberdeen at Celtic Park to Celtic TV, the Irishman stated that he is expecting a difficult evening but expects his team to be difficult to break down.
“Listen, you can always concede goals. It’s all down to looking at us in the press, and it’ll be a totally different game. Atalanta, having played them before and obviously seen them play, it’s a totally different game. They’re probably the best man-to-man marking team in world football, how they work.
“The football will be different, but we’ve already had that. If you’re not quite on it, and you’re not compact, and you’re not tight, and you’re not aggressive, you can get punished at the very highest level. But for us, we’re disappointed with the two goals.
Celtic players celebrate following a goal Kyogo Furuhashi during the UEFA Champions League, league match between Celtic and Slovan Bratislava at Celtic Park September 18, 2024. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)
“We showed a great reaction. We should win the game on chances and opportunities and the dominance that we had, but we didn’t. And you give credit to Aberdeen because they defended manfully, and especially during that last period.”
Celtic were excellent in the first half but failed to capitalise on chances at 2-0, which will have annoyed the manager. The chance from Kyogo to make it 3-0 sticks in the mind as minutes later Aberdeen had pulled one back and were soon level. Celtic cannot be as slack in possession and as passive in their defending as they were against the Dons.
Celtic’s European displays thus far could be described as being Jekyll and Hyde. The opening night win over Slovan Bratislava showed all the qualities of this Celtic team under the lights of Paradise, which set the team up for the trip to Dortmund. The Celts were totally off it in Germany and were soundly thrashed 7-1 by last year’s Champions League Finalists.
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