MICHAEL STEWART hit the nail on the head with his summary of Celtic’s 6-0 thrashing of Livingston at the weekend.
Too often this season the bhoys have been slow and predictable. Our rivals happy to sit in and stay very compact because they knew what was coming at all times.
Celtic ran out of ideas and started playing frantic and less expressive football.
The return of a hungry and fit James Forrest has been a massive game-changer.
The winger suffers from a lot of negativity within our support and most of it stems from the pre-Rodgers days when he was inconsistent. He’s proven time and time again in his later years at the club he is so valuable and this season only proves it.
Stewart believes a Forrest and Moi double act makes Celtic so difficult to predict and harder to counteract.
“One of the most interesting things I heard from John Kennedy there was talking about James Forrest with regards to disorganised positioning, and then exploiting the spaces.” Stewart told the BBC.
“What I take from that is that they played a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1. You’ve got Elyounoussi and you’ve got Forrest, and they’re not wingers that just stand on the touchline and they’re easy to pick up. They go and play in certain areas deliberately, clearly, to almost disrupt the opponents. To make it difficult for them to be marked.
“On occasions though, it does get to a situation where, when you seen earlier in the season, that they became very predictable and you knew that there were areas they weren’t going to attack. And I think now with the better players coming back, that ability to be able to go and hurt teams and attack the spaces has really come to the fore.”
James went off injured against Livingston after playing his part in the 6-0 drubbing. Fans are holding their breath hoping the winger makes the Scottish Cup tie on Sunday.
It would be a major blow if James didn’t make it.
