Cameron Carter-Vickers led by example from the back for Celtic at Ibrox this afternoon. The centre-half captained the Hoops in this season’s third Glasgow derby.
At the back, Carter-Vickers was a rock. The 26-year-old stood out in the backline despite his side conceding three goals.
Post-match, the former Spurs man remained unmoved by the result. He admitted that although it was frustrating for Celtic to draw the game from the winning position they were in, nothing will alter in terms of their approach for the rest of the season.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, Carter-Vickers was as calm as can be. He said: “The situation in the table hasn’t changed.
“Even if we won that game today we would probably still have to have won our next seven or six games. Nothing has changed at all.”
As club captain Callum McGregor put it, every game between now and the end of the season is a cup final for Celtic.
Brendan Rodgers’ men need to be impeccable during the upcoming run-in. That starts next Saturday at home to St. Mirren and must continue after the split.
Things are as tight as ever and remain as they were following today’s clash.
Before the game, 4 points against the scum and win all of the rest, still keeps ourselves as champions.
So nothing has changed whatsoever in that regards for ourselves.
However, a massive opportunity lost today, but we still remain at making this season far harder for ourselves than it should be imo?
Didn’t like our tactical approach in the 2nd half, where we were far less aggressive in our play that allowed the scum a way back into a game, where they were struggling to be only 2nd best to ourselves?
Think the conditions played there part in such a turn around, but moreso the yellow cards in the 1st half contributed hugely imo?
We are a front foot team, and still a fairly poor team when trying to play on the back foot and without much of a devastating counter attack either currently imo?
Can understand improving that within ourselves for European football, but still shouldn’t be much of a case within the SPFL with the player’s we still have imo?
Overall not losing the game was the biggest factor today, but still very frustrating at the manner we have went about way to many games this season within the SPFL for my liking?
Well said Johnno.
Sima looks a player, Matondo was shi… not good but this strike was a beaut and that is all the balance I can put on it. Horrible stadium, disgusting fans, bitter gaffer, crap team, Silva is a diver, the ref handed Celts cards like he was playing Uno while barely recognizing Sevco fouls and VAR reversed one of the 2 decisions that went our way, the ref initially got it right, all day.
The booking affected the players, CCV had to pull back the physicality due to warnings so was reduced to shepherding players rather than directly challenging them, Hatate and Kuhn tired and had to be subbed the level went down a bit as CalMac clearly isn’t back at 100%, O’Riley burned himself out, and Yang is iffy due to inexperience… all that said, but the starting XI could have been 10-0 up at HT.
The last gasp equalizer makes it feel like a loss but think, a competent ref and a wee rub of the green we could have utterly hounded them. Imagine HT 5 or 6 goals up. It was a one sided first half.
The bookies’ hearts must have sunk when Tav got his inevitable pen, I wonder how so many punters would have anticipated that, eh? HH