{"id":12143,"date":"2017-11-02T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2017-11-02T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:37:33","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-november-2-on-a-lighter-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=12143","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday November 2: On a Lighter Note…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the performance against Bayern Munich was great, the result wasn’t, and there’s been a bit of an inquest as to what went wrong.<\/p>\n

One of the replies yesterday pretty much confirmed what a drunk fellow told me at the bar , and Dedryck Boyata is taking it pretty badly.<\/p>\n

He says he lost the ball in the floodlights, and that split second of uncertainty caused his misjudgement.<\/p>\n

Whereas Craig Gordon did his usual charge of the shite brigade and made a complete arse of it. Still, at least this time he left out the impression of Harold Schumacher and missed the player as well as the ball.<\/p>\n

I thought Dedryck was going to head it\u201d,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe punt through came from the goalkeeper, who has played the ball fairly aimlessly up the park \u2013 which is what we\u2019re looking for.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those things. You don\u2019t see that often here and I don\u2019t quite know how it got all the way through, but it was a strange goal to lose. I think Dedryck thought it was going to come straight through. I just had to react, so it was kind of an all-round mistake.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cComan is pretty quick and he got in behind Dedryck. I just tried to force him wide and take his momentum off him to allow the guys to get back in behind the ball, but he still managed to score.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something you don\u2019t see very often, especially in games at this level, one ball up the pitch causing such difficulty \u2013 and we were just a little bit late to react.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI had to do something off the bouncing ball, he was coming straight through, he\u2019s quick, and he was right in the middle of the goal.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my point of view, I\u2019ve forced him to come round me and let three of the guys get back goal-side of the ball to try and make a block.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we got unlucky because he\u2019s threaded the ball through a forest of legs and found the net. I also felt it might have hit his hand as the ball rolled across his body. Having looked at it again, it looks as though it did touch his hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe official has looked at it and thought it hit his hip, so there\u2019s a difference of opinion there. It counted. The guy behind the goal should be looking at that.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got goal-line technology, so he should be looking at the play, at least. It looked as though it hit his hand and they have got the advantage from that.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Boyata and Gordon did well enough to recover and were fairly solid afterwards, but for both of them its time to realise whats done is done and its time to put it behind them.<\/p>\n

On Saturday Celtic face St. Johnstone in Perth, and despite their surprisingly low position in the league, we need all eyes back on the prize .<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of praise from our Tuetonic friends about the other night.<\/p>\n

Am I the only one who finds it all a little condescending ?<\/p>\n

German newspaper Bild led the way..<\/p>\n

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Er, yeah. We know. We won a trophy for it.<\/p>\n

Then a couple of their players gave their thoughts…<\/p>\n

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