I have just been watching a couple of games that I had missed on Celtic TV. We are becoming too predictable and easy to defend against, especially at Celtic Park. It must be close to 90% of our goals coming from set pieces or crosses from the wings. We have nobody playing the ball through the middle. Ledley and Wanyama are great at what they do, they rarely give the ball away and are harrying non stop, but they are not very adventurous when it comes to passing. Its usually a lateral pass to the wings or full backs. Ki might not harry as much but he could also pass side to side and every once in a while split the defence with a pass. Hooper is pretty speedy over short yards and would burn most opposition Centre backs for pace, but no one plays those passes anymore. Watt is also a flying machine as we witnessed against Barca twice. He would love those balls.
Stokes was our leading assist player for the last two seasons because he could pick a pass as well. He might not have been successful every time, which is what most Celtic fans did not like about him with him turning the ball over in dangerous areas, but he only as to be successful 2 or 3 times a game.
Right now we have Mulgrew and Commons as our leaders of assists. Its great that we have two lads that can put in a great cross but we need someone to play the ball through the middle as well.
Kayal maybe?
Missing Stokes and Ki
posted on 5/12/12
No, he passed it out to Lustig on the wing and Lustig crossed it in for Hooper. Wanyama scores a lot as well, not just headers from corners either. Passing wise though, I haven't seen him try too many along the ground forward passes. Maybe he can, he hasn't yet.
posted on 5/12/12
I think it's Forrest we miss, Ki hardly played when he was here and Stokes was never first choice (both good players though)
posted on 5/12/12
Why are you disagreeing with me???
We should be trying to win this tonight if only to get seeded in a couple of years.
posted on 5/12/12
"I think it's Forrest we miss"
We really do , we dont have anything like him when hes out the team ....hes our something different and very often our attacking flair
posted on 5/12/12
Is Emilio playing tonight?
I love his shiny Brylcreemed hair.
posted on 5/12/12
he might play ...came on as a sub at the weekend
posted on 5/12/12
Ki played in 41 games last season and Stokes played in 47. Can't really say ki hardly played and Stokes wasn't first choice.
I wasn't too sad to see Ki go, I thought we would have been able to cover him, but we haven't. No one attempts to play it through the middle. And we really need someone to do it.
posted on 5/12/12
Ki played more games last season because of injuries...............look at games played over his time with us.
posted on 5/12/12
couldnt believe i was one of the few that never wanted Ki to leave!
He was by far our best passer, and also always able to play that killer pass.
And how people think we dont need Stokes
posted on 5/12/12
Why don't a lot of Celtic fans like Stokes?
Probably coz he's Irish ya shower a bigots.