{"id":147048,"date":"2025-05-31T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147048\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:49:10","slug":"a-pair-of-celtic-sinners-condemned-to-the-one-trick-pony-club-as-cracks-appear-on-green-and-white-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147048\/","title":{"rendered":"A pair of Celtic sinners condemned to the one trick pony club as cracks appear on green and white armour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aberdeen defeat may have done Brendan Rodgers a favour in the long run as our man Hugh delivers his hard hitting verdict<\/p>\n

12:49, 31 May 2025Updated 12:49, 31 May 2025<\/p>\n

\"CelticCeltic players during clash with Aberdeen at Hampden<\/p>\n

Aberdeen’s Scottish Cup win should have had the same effect as smelling salts being waved under Brendan Rodgers\u2019 <\/a>nose to clear his head.<\/p>\n

The manager\u2019s mind must have been scrambled by the lumbering, lackadaisical and lacklustre nature of his team\u2019s performance at Hampden.<\/p>\n

The weight of history was on their shoulders and, to a man, they collapsed under the strain.<\/p>\n

But Aberdeen<\/a> may have done Celtic<\/a> a favour in the long run by exposing their inadequacies.<\/p>\n

There was more than a party stage dismantled at Celtic Park after the defeat.<\/p>\n

The illusion of Celtic having adequate strength in depth to begin next season with a Champions League<\/a> qualifier that will carry a \u00a330m sidestake was also razed to the ground at the same time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said Adam Idah<\/a> was testing the manager\u2019s ability to always improve the players he had under his charge. And more fall into that category.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Kuhn<\/a> and Paulo Bernardo <\/a>have to do more to avoid being categorised as a one-trick pony and a player who flatters to deceive.<\/p>\n

There are players who need to up their game or go to a less pressurised environment.<\/p>\n

Celtic\u2019s trophy haul has been astonishing in recent years, but cracks are appearing.<\/p>\n

The failure to win what would have been a historic ninth Treble was the source of celebration for the supporters of Celtic\u2019s rivals at Ibrox.<\/p>\n

\"BrendanBrendan Rodgers suffered Scottish Cup Final disappointment with Celtic at Hampden<\/p>\n

But celebrating somebody else\u2019s failure when you\u2019ve won nothing for yourself means it\u2019s time to up your own game.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what Rangers<\/a> will be doing under their American owners and different management ideas in the Ibrox dressing-room.<\/p>\n

When Celtic were asked to dig deep at Hampden they only found a gaping hole.<\/p>\n

Extensive work on filling the void has got to be done by the recruitment department to meet the demands of domestic and European competition. Players like Johnny Kenny and Yang shouldn\u2019t have been left to save the day in the extra time period of a cup final.<\/p>\n

The irony is supporters will now take their anger out on the manager in the time-honoured Brendan-baiting fashion.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t his tactics, team selection or substitutions that cost Celtic against Aberdeen.<\/p>\n

It was a failure to show up on the part of several players and the lack of a strong bench.<\/p>\n

That must be addressed as the team across the road on the other side of the city try to emerge from the shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aberdeen defeat may have done Brendan Rodgers a favour in the long run as our man Hugh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[21840,10108,2352,2628,7184,1614,94,43225,63201,2630,1638,79,10107,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-147048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aberdeen-fc","9":"tag-adam-idah","10":"tag-brendan-rodgers","11":"tag-celtic-fc","12":"tag-celtic-transfer-news","13":"tag-champions-league","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nicolas-kuhn","16":"tag-paulo-bernardo","17":"tag-scottish-cup","18":"tag-scottish-premiership","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-transfer-talk","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114603004004191004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}