A hard fought draw with a resurgent Motherwell saw Celtic keep in with the big boys in Scotlands top six, thus ensuring a good shot at a place in Europe next season.<\/p>\n
Alright, you try to find something positive from that garbage yesterday.<\/p>\n
A Kris Commons penalty cancelled out John Suttons first half goal to mean that Ronny Deilas’ side have now won just three of eleven games against full time opposition.<\/p>\n
Whatever it is he’s trying to do, it isn’t working. In fact, it’s becoming more apparent that it isn’t going to work.<\/p>\n
As he had hinted pre match, Deila made several changes to the side that had gained a draw in Salzburg, leaving out Gordon, Brown and commons, arguably the three players who had done the most to earn that result. Apart from anything else, this sends out all the wrong kinds of messages to anyone who is listening.<\/p>\n
Most managers would pick a side on form in the following game. They certainly wouldn’t drop their best players, especially this early in the season when some are still getting up to speed with their fitness, and especially when the next game is against a first division side in the League cup.<\/p>\n
The players will be questioning the decisions amongst themselves, and some of them will be wondering what they have to do to keep a first team place.<\/p>\n
If they are merely being rested, those stepping in for them have no incentive to perform, as they will realise the reason for their inclusion is not based on merit, but merely on a whim. Which is not good for morale.<\/p>\n
And when the opposition reads the team sheet in the dressing room ? Well, it has the opposite effect. Imagine facing Barcelona and finding out at the last minute Messi , Neymar and Suarez are being rested…<\/p>\n
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Thats the effect it had on Motherwell goalscorer John Sutton;<\/p>\n
“You get a lift when you see the likes of Scott and Kris aren\u2019t starting Scott is the real driving force behind them”\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n It was an astonishing move by Deila, and again shows a lack of understanding of how footballers minds work.<\/p>\n Which in turn is nowhere near the lack of understanding I have for how his mind works;<\/p>\n \u00a0“Of course I’m not happy with the result. We deserved to win but we made it so difficult for ourselves with a poor first half.<\/em><\/p>\n ‘We had bad tempo, no passes forward and didn’t break them down once in the first half. That’s not good enough.<\/em><\/p>\n ‘In the second half, we had two good subs coming on, they brought energy into the game and we played quite well.<\/em><\/p>\n “But you cannot rely on one or two players. We need to get the whole squad up at the right level.<\/em><\/p>\n “We need to build leaders out on the pitch, for when Scott and Kris aren’t there.<\/em><\/p>\n “Maybe six changes was too much. But I don’t want to rotate that much, it was just needed.<\/em><\/p>\n “We had many players out with injuries, new players coming in who we\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n need to play into shape.<\/em><\/p>\n “But of course I worry that we might have more days like this. That is why everybody in the squad needs to improve.<\/em><\/p>\n “We will get injuries, we will have players out, so we need to build everybody up.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n So , correct me here if I have misunderstood…is he saying we won’t play our top players because we need to get the second string ready in case we, er, don’t have the top players out there ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fuck me. He’s really gone this time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deila also commented on the Aleksandr Tonev racial abuse case, with the Bulgarian being asked to appear before the SFA on October 9, accused of saying to Aberdeen defender Shay Logan ” Take your hands off me, you vlack c**t ”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0‘Yeah, it’s not ideal. It takes energy from you.<\/em><\/p>\n “But I don’t think this will cause any problems. I believe in him, I believe It’s something he hasn’t done.<\/em><\/p>\n “But he can’t do anything about it now. He has to think about what he does in training every day.<\/em><\/p>\n “He’s been out for a long, long time. He has been injured.<\/em><\/p>\n “So it’s about getting him up to his best. That will take some time.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0He’s right about that. To get Tonev up to an acceptable level of performance will take some time.<\/p>\n![\"facepalm\"](\"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/facepalm.jpg\")
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