CHRIS SUTTON wrote in his RecordSport Column that not one Celtic player got pass marks at Ibrox.

Celtic played one of, if not the worst performances under Brendan Rodgers during his time at the club. The Ibrox club had the bit between their teeth, and they showed they wanted it more on the day.

As the adage goes – Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn’t work hard.

While Sutton makes it clear nobody got pass marks two players, in particular, who came in for some heavy criticism from the former Celtic striker.

“I wrote in my column recently Celtic have carried too many players this season. I know Scott Sinclair scored a hat-trick at Pittodrie on Boxing Day but it’s in games like Ibrox you’re looking for him to turn up.”

“It’s not so long ago Olivier Ntcham was being linked with a £15million move to Porto but he hasn’t turned up in a Celtic shirt since his winning goal in the last game against Rangers.

“We don’t know how fit Odsonne Edouard was but it was a big call not to start him and it was hard for Mikey Johnston in terms of the role he was asked to play.”

Sutton referring to the Porto bid which Rodgers confirmed in the final days of the transfer window.

Olivier scored the winner at Celtic Park and was in fantastic form. Since then the Frenchman has gone off the boil, between injuries and not getting a run of games it could have been difficult for the midfielder to get into his stride.

Having just signed a new four-year deal with Celtic, Sutton is correct that we need more from the former Manchester City player.

He’s fast becoming the Samaras of the Rodgers era; Obvious talent there but you can tell within the first five minutes of a game if he’s up for it or not.

It’s going to be a big winter window for Celtic where Rodgers looks to bring in reinforcements ahead of the second half of the season.

There’s some solace in the fact, Celtic cannot play any worse than how they did on Sunday.

1 COMMENT

  1. We don’t have to play worse than we did on Saturday . We just have to play the same and we are stuffed .Any team in the league will draw with or beat us simply by getting stuck in.

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