Motherwell Vs Celtic BBC Radio

Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic travel to Fir Park in the Scottish Premiership to take on a Motherwell side with just one league win to their name in 2024.

Drama I’m sure about to unfold it’s all live with us here on Sports sign with our commentary team of Steven Craig and Pat boner and Al lament thanks very much Rich yeah this is a real test of the Champions metal this afternoon trailing Rangers by five their biggest deficit

Since going into the winter break in 2122 and po the cogo side comfortably clawed that back but with 12 games to play there’s little room for error this time around mother will have uh proved a tough nut to crack for Celtic this season but they’ve taken just five

Points from 78 from today’s opponents and brandan Rogers has never lost to well will that change this afternoon well certainly the home fans who have gathered here at F Park will hope so it’ll be Celtic to kick us off going from right to left as we look at it from

The back of the main stand mother W in their traditional clar and Amber and Celtic likewise their Trad traditional green and white hoops and it will be Matt O’Reilly who will kick it off a ninth consecutive victory at F Park we’re underway and iag gets an early touch

Playing it back to Liam scales Greg Taylor for Mike nooski Celtic you imagine have got to start with a high Tempo that’s what their manager will be demanding that’s what their fans will be looking for if they’re to get a positive result this afternoon too often this

Season they’ve uh been guilty of playing with a a slow buildup labored and it’s led to the drop points have already Dro points in more games this season than they did in all of last season as Adam dine gets a an early touch on loan from Rangers trying to

Help his parent club by helping mville to take something off Celtic this afternoon nooski plays it back to Joel Hart we’ll get py thoughts on Joel Hart’s retirement which he announced during the the week over the course of this game and maybe post match as well

Will he have a big part to play in this fixture it’s out for a throw into mother wall just down in front of Stuart kwells Dugout and it’ll be taken by Paul M about 15 yards inside the mother will have again looking down the line for options looks for bear but doesn’t quite

Reach him comes off the head of Greg Taylor couple of bodies hit the deck but Willie colum allows play to continue as beis mgab gets his head to the ball sosi’s in there as well battling away and eventually will he call him does blow the whistle I think it’s a hand

Ball and it’s given in Celtics favor and here’s alist Johnston playing with a face mask after the head knock he took again tibs back in the lineup as picks up on the right hand side on the left boot slides it to Greg Taylor 20 yards from goal takes a shot and takes a

Reflection but it’s gathered in by Liam Kelly watch today by the Scotland goalkeeping coach Chris woods and a good ear take from Liam kayy to settle any nerves that he might be feeling a couple of minutes in mother nil Celtic nil yeah it was a a good bit of play down the

Right hand head took the took the free kick quickly which tells me that they want to keep the intensity uppr from the very off uh and when that ball came across great tayer picked up that sort of almost inverted fullback position in Midfield and and and I think when he hit

The shot yes deflection just took the moment him out of it and it was easy for Liam Kelly that’s set forward from Lon Miller and the O is into the Celtic penalty at right hand side checks back inside shooting chance go the O is off sides what a start that looked like for

Mother but the O and motherwell celebrations are curtailed two and A2 minutes on the clock and Willie colum with the arm raised and the flag up on this near side of course it will be checked but mother thought they’ made the ideal start what

A bit of Play It Was from Theo bear to check inside and and finish Beyond Joe Hart but it looks like it’s going to be chocked off Steven craan well to the naked eye Altier it looked like he’d gone a little bit early it’s hard sometimes cuz your eyes on the ball you

Watch the ball being kicked and by the time you look the bear is beyond Lam scales what I would say is there was a bit of a gap between navroski and Liam scales they allow Theo bear to run into it’s one simple ball up the pitch if you’ve got their defensive line right

It’s absolutely perfect but it’s a risk to take when there’s no pressure in the ball and the motherhood player can left her head and play but the Finish from the bear I think it was against Livingston here earlier in the season I was here and he done the exact same

Thing chop back and put it into the back of the net but it’s a warning sign to Celtic that they have to be careful when they’re pressing they have to be together and it looks like going to beide Ste your bang on there when you look at nooski just to confirm it’s

Definitely offside scales is is is the the first defender on on near the ball leoski then’s got to come around and give him cover and and if yes they played offside so you can get them credit maybe that that that was a a tactical good piece of piece of work but

Certainly he if he’s going to track him he’s got to track him otherwise uh with the power of beay he’s he’s in there and and the strength and the speed and he’d be a handful for them all day oh yeah he just caught Liam skilles there with a

High boot scales felt that and really call him on to word with Theo bear I’ll tell you what despite being offside he finished it with some a plum and and he’s he’s a player who has been completely transformed and I have to say credit to Stuart to well for not only

Bringing that out of him but also identifying that there was a player in there because I think if anyone else in scsh football is honest very few of us saw that yeah listen it was a brilliant finish great technical play also to to create uh the opportunity for him there

A slide past uh Joe Hart in the Celtic goal but uh yeah it doesn’t stand unfortunately for mwell but it’s a good start for them it’s a big warning for Celtic as well and uh here’s navroski just stepping away away from bear and now O’Reiley about 30 yards from the

Mother will go out to the right hand side for up against jent flicks into the penalty Kyo trying to get in front of his marker was Paul M but M did enough and then it just whacked up field all the way over the halfway line all the

Way through to Joel Hart who’s well out of his goal he just plays it short to nooski 5 minutes in it’s nil nil mother wall thought and hoped it was one nil but uh Theo Bear’s goal chopped off for offside and uh V just confirming that

The assistant on the near side had flyed correctly Jonathan Bell the man with the flag and he got it right as Joe Hart has the ball at his feet just the edge of the penalty area plays out to Liam scales who was turned inside out by Theo

Beer and we’ll have to keep a close eye on the Canadian who’s eyeing a a recall to the international setup I reading during the week and here come mother again and this time it’s Larry Miller leading the charge into the penalty he goes takes it one way then the other

Checks back then he goes down under the challenge of nooski back on his feet there some claims from the home fans no real claims from Miller himself it was actually Jack Veil sorry stepen you’re correct to point that out to me Veil who was going into the box

There who goes down in the end it looked like there was nothing too much in it but it’s eventually out for a mother wall Corner down that right hand side but uh already mother wall on the counter attack looking very dangerous well you say Counterattack it’s just one

Long ball up the pitch it’s not as if it’s four or five passes caught in s Lake open it’s just simple balls over the top so s Lake really have to be careful but good running power from Theo bear and good running power from Jack Vil corner kick then from the right hand

Side swung in near post and it comes off I think a Celtic head and behind for another Corner yeah it was a good Corner played in with real Pace into that near post area I was worry slightly about kin McGregor being a a small player in that

Front post area is he they’re trying to drag him out of that area by playing 2v one out in the wide area but uh that space is there to be to be uh exploited by mwell this one’s taken short and it’s gone back to spittle who HS it to the

Back post the headers w at the back post but harmlessly behind it was Dan Casey perhaps who won the header and he’s also hurt himself as he went up for the header and he’s going to need some treatment he’s taking a knock to the face and really call him brings on the

Mother W physio 7 Minutes in and mother will have started this game pretty well they have and and you know Steven rightly says this to Long balls down the side of the center half but that time again it was down the side of AATA who was can almost a hold the Midfield

Player and naoki who who again we seen him against alardin uh he struggled for Pace up against mayosi and and uh that could be something that butw well have have analyzed and have’ seen that the probably the weakness and that’s two balls has played into that area and

They’ve struggled Celtic to deal with it I think when you’re an underdog you need a little bit of Po early in the game you need a little bit of of inspiration that can kind of galvanize you and believe that there’s something here for you today and those two simple balls over

The top have to give mother all that belief which sure K well spoke about ahead of the game what you have to be careful of though is every time you get the ball you’re not looking for that simple pass up the field because then Cel start to drop off and start to

Understand it and read it it’s about mixing your game up it’s about the center forward coming short and going long and trying to play little games all the time but certainly the pace of bear and the power of bear and the running power of Jack Vil shows they have got

That threat if they can get the pass right yeah but but the thing about that stepen is if you do play a couple of and it comes off that Cel will drop off that allows you then to play a little bit in Midfield and get a few passes away

Otherwise s just come and crowd you crowd you and stop you from building any momentum so them them long balls have helped them maybe to develop that part of the game Dan Casey back on his feet and he’s going to trot off on the far side having

Received treatment and he’ll be way back on momentarily as toart prepares to take the goal kick we’ve played almost 9 Minutes at first Park and mother wol the team that had the ball in the net but it was choed off for an offside and the Bear’s goal did not stand here we go

Again it’s Liam scales up to the halfway Line crossing it into mother territory looking for an option tries to squeeze it down the left right for Callum McGregor it’s cut out by Veil who is playing just off the oer like uh BL spit yeah it’s critical obviously the they’re

Man marking what in the middle of the pitch not to let him be the typical Callum McGregor type player who’s going to develop the game so now the center halfes have got to be able to pick out those two forward Midfield players and get them on the ball especially Kum

McGregor who can pick a pass sple goes up and wins the header Midway inside his own half out to jent on the left hand side he just thumps It Forward rather hopefully scales underneath it it’s not a convincing header Miller gets something on it Divine now down the

Right flank for Miller once more tracked by Greg Taylor almost at the B line shoving the back there on Miller and Miller plays Off Taylor it’s another mother W corner and the home side certainly starting this one the more positive of the two outfits well I think

This is where mother will have to try and exploit s like so-called weakness you know they don’t have a lot of height when you look at Liam scales you look at narosa you look at Mat riy that’s about it so can you possibly take those three

Bigger ones out of the way and allow one of your powerful players to go and get a free header they have to try and exploit it corner kick then on the right hand side jent or the left foot is over it stovi is the short option but he swings

In near post a good Ball but it’s well won by scales right inside his sixy area mother will pick up on the edge of the box it’s Miller once more cut out by McGregor O’Reilly has it he can’t find McGregor with the pass backwards but

It’s out of play for a Celtic throw in Midway inside their own half just over 10 played mother will nil Celtic nil as scales rolls it back to Jew Hart quick chance for you to address that retirement announced by je har listen you know it’s obviously retirement I

Thought he might have played on a little bit longer whether it was a Celtic or not that’s another another story but uh from that perspective um he’s done magnificent I think for Celtic coming up here when they were really under pressure in that position you know uh we

Know that they pay big money for baras it didn’t work out they needed somebody to come in to to give a little bit of I I think stability to that sort of almost position and he’s done it so well and he’s so good off the pitch as much as on

The pitch which is a big strength of Joe very experienced man being arounded big shot uh stopper um and and has come up with big saves at critical times There is almost weaknesses in every goalkeeper don’t get me wrong but over the pie he done brilliantly might have a bit of

Work to do here as Veil comes forward in the Left Channel for mother into the penalty he comes goes for goal and it’s taken in by joart comfortable save that time from Veil strike I’m so happy that he made that save after me building him up there yeah I think most people would

Echo what you said of course he’s made a a couple of Errors about what goalkeeper has it what player has it uh over the course of their career but uh generally speaking he’s been terrific for Celtic and Brandon Rogers paying tribute to him during the week as well describing him

As a brilliant asset to Celtic in the wider game tremendous man as paky has been uh saying they are brilliant to work with said Brandon Rogers and uh yeah he’ll be a loss and Celtic will clearly have to go you’d imagine into the market and uh might cost a few B to

Find an adequate replacement nil nil it stands here at for Park as Kun is fouled there by Georgie jent over on the far side Celtic have the free kick just a few yards in off the Right Touch line 12 and a half played at F Park nil nil it

Stands Cel have lost possession again and spittle picks up and it’s a good bit of play but he’s then given it to absolutely no one alist Johnson goes back and retrieves it on the halfway line plays it to U and then back to nooski nooski to scales out on this left

Hand side mother looking to try and organize make sure there’s nothing easy for Celtic on as maida has to go back the way challenged by a couple of mother World players Miller forces them back the way and now it’s out to Johnson in the right hand side now Co takes over up against

Spittle plays It Forward there for O’Reilly on the goal line right hand side cuts it back tries to at least cut out of the near post and it will be a Celtic corner there first of the game over on the right hand side 13 in go is

So far in mother yeah this is where the nerves start to build from the mother perspective defensively they’ve been P from set plays against the been poor from Cross boards into the box so they can’t let it come back today yeah oy swings it in and sple gets his head to

Mother wolf caned more from set pieces than anyone else in the Top Flight uh 12 I think it’s the Italian nine of which have come from corners but they survived that one for the moment at least here’s McGregor though coming forward once more he’s out muscled Midway inside the

Mother will half by zovi who looked to feed It Forward early doors for Jack Vil but it’s cut out and Celtic have it back 14 in nil nil as O’Reilly has it just inside the mother W half plays it back to Johnston again Celtic haven’t quite hit

Their straps as yet gear scales moving forward down the left for the Champions maida can’t get away from Divine then and steps Miller to feed it forward and iata who was tracking be just knocks out a play Safety First and it’ll be a throw into M well Brandon Rogers said

Ahead of the game that iata was playing for to give defensive stability in Midfield all modable threats are coming from Jack Veil who are actually running off a so I’m not too sure he’s given too much defensive stability no listen I agree with you there stepen I’m looking

At it and I’m saying he’s sitting in that Midfield area the fullbacks have gone forward he is the one who going has to almost cover those areas too has he got the pace to do that that would be be the question I would have P kick out

There from KY scales plays It Forward comes to about 25 yards from goal trying to get onto the left foot slipping it through looking for maida but uh mcin was back there to clear Celtic have on the halfway line look like a hand ball there from Vil accidental then he catches maida that

Was uh probably also accidental but nonetheless it is a free kick to Celtic as the Japanese forward Goes Down And Willie colum says that’ll be a free kick 10 yards inside mother territory quickly taken by McGregor out to Johnston on the right hand side further to the right as

Jen tries to intercept the pass to Kon but Kun picks up almost right on the touch line on that right hand side back to O’Reilly just after the quarter of an hour mark no goals as yet but scales come forward Celtic creeping into the game here having been on the back foot

In the early stages here’s scales Midway inside the mother will half plays it forward for Taylor Taylor closely marked by mcin gets the pass off to iatan in back to scales who plays it Square early for nooski allowed to come forward Midway inside the mother will half out

To the right now for Johnston closed down by jent it break for iata and back out to Johnston right hand side slides it into the feet there of Kun who couldn’t bring it under control mother will pick up just inside their own box forward pass for Miller who wasn’t aware

Of maida coming back and he’s nicked to off him Celtic have it once more it’s maida getting it back from Taylor Taylor once more Midway inside the mother will half good pressure this from Celtic can they create the opportunity good challenge from macabi on kyogo and then

They were just too Keen to play the early ball there and it’s given back to Celtic and all the way back through to ju Hart 16 and a half play mother nil Celtic nil that’s just decision made made a great tackle macabi coming out

And W in the ball but then then when the ball Falls to him it’s almost in his head I need to kick it long when when the when the pass wasn’t on he could have easily play played it into the feet uh of of the big Striker and they would

Have held on to it but they will have given it away again it’s Taylor just outside the penalty area McGregor trying to keep a hold of it under pressure from zv kovski Taylor once more Miller tracking him back with e Midway inside the mother half n’s well advaned comes

Forward and pokes out to the right hand side for Kon to try and take on his marker sends up to the back po Divine is a crucial header in there as maida was looking at the back po comes out to Taylor at the angle of the box in the

Left hand side Divine blocks the cross and then Miller steps in to help out his teammate feeds it forward it’s not a good pass iatan there ahead of Vil it’s a good spell this for Celtic as they look for the opening goal maida back to his fellow Japanese International iatan

And scales nooski they’re been pushed back though by the mother press and have to go back to the goalkeeper Joe har he’s about 25 yards from his own goal now nooski up towards the halfway line he comes good contest so far mother started really well but Celtic edging back into

The game looking to impose themselves as alist Johnson just knocks it straight out of play and a bit of race bite for mother who have just had to be switched on in the last five minutes Ste but they’ve done it fairly well to be fair yeah lenon Miller’s had a difficult two

Or three minutes he got the ball he took too many touches MAA takes it off and he plays a long ball up the pitch he gets caught in possession again you’ve got to move the ball quickly you know when you’re playing against Celtic and the game’s so condensed you aren’t getting

Four touches you aren’t getting 5 Seconds to think about it he’s got to be touch and move the ball quickly so that’s what they have to get back to yeah the 17y olds lot of plaudits and he’s got a big future ahead in the game

You would imagine but this is a a big test for him this afternoon in the Midfield against Celtic is they try to come forward down the right hand side but Casey gets it back to his goalkeeper Liam Kelly and uh Casey’s not been able to keep the pass back from jent in

Though and it’s a throw into Celtic well into mother W territory quickly taken by oy he’s played it back to Johnston still on that right flank back with O’Reilly who Brandon Rogers IGN knowled during the week that he’s rather dried up certainly in terms of goals he hasn’t

Been nearly as prolific as he was in the first half of the Season partly symptomatic of Celtic’s own dip in form here scales trying to get it into the box comes off the back of maida and forly comes back to scales in the angle of the Box left hand side

Taylor in support scales will try to whip it in himself Divine away only as far as McGregor McGregor can’t get it past zovi who’s sticking close to him in these early stages scal slight It Forward looking for maida but it’s too much on it behind for a mother W goal

Kick in almost 20 minutes in the clock it’s still goal is it for Park yeah celic dominating the the and controlling The Possession at the moment High higher up the pitch in a better position um still not able to maybe break down the Mell defense the way they they would

Like uh but they’re in a in a in a positive situation at the moment uh mwal is playing obviously with their back five they’re playing with a three in Midfield and almost a two up front with uh Veil dropping in on top of a uh S I

Think have got a 2V1 in the wide areas and they need to switch the ball a little bit quicker from side to side and create those 2v ones and try to exploit mwell Taylor does well against bear in the air giving away a few inches but he

Got the better of the big Striker McGregor though running into trouble he’s pretty fortunate to get a free kick there in my view he just seemed to run into the challenge but will colum is close at hand and awards the free kick to Celtic which has been taken mother

Will initially deal with it but McGregor picks up away then by Casey up to the halfway line and it’ll be picked up by nooski spittle goes to try and close him down and he goes back to Joel Hart who’s Midway inside his own half and immediately plays out to scales out to

The left hand side for Taylor looks up tries one over the top macabi sees that back to Liam Kelly poor ball from Greg Taylor it’s got to be better than that just too impatient from Celtic you know when you’re playing against the a deep defensive line the space is probably not

Going to be in behind you can’t continually Force balls in like M managed to do against s you got to drop it in you got to try and feed it into feet kyo’s not looking him behind he knows it’s not there for him so Greg Taylor has to recognize that MAA has it

Left hand side plays it off Divine who looks to me stepen certainly when I’ve seen him very odd occasionally he’s had a chance at Rangers and also in the couple of glimpses of had him in the in a mother Jersey looks like to be a decent acquisition for Stuart K will I

Have to say very accomplished for a young player really good distribution he’s good in possession his passing is good he’s strong he did give away a poor goal up at aberin you get out muscled by Duke for a goal so that’s a learning curve as a young fullback you’ve got to

Defend your back post but all around alist yet it’s been good mother fans wanted a free kick in the middle of the park which wasn’t forthcoming and Celtic have it through alist Johnson just inside his own half nil nil with 21 1/2 minutes on the clock

Mother with one win in their last six it came emphatically here against uh Ross County three draws in two defeats other than that in this run they still have a half an eye at least on the the top six you would imagine it’s such a close for

League that part of it at least as Liam Kelly comes off his line and clutches it high in the air looking to regain some of the confidence that perhaps he’s lost over the last few weeks that was a really good decision really good decision because it was a decent ball

Over the top MAA was I think in uh but he’s come cleared up the situation caught the ball Beyond his penalty spot which is unique in the modern game Jin run straight into Tas the Johnson and Celtic have won it back and they come forward here through C into the penalty

Area or just to the edge of it but a good challenge on the Edge by Casey and mother will win it back forward it goes to bear looking to hold it up but in steps nooski just pokes it out of play over in The Far Side it’ll be a mother

Will throw in we’ve played a quarter of the game and no goals Ste beard did have the ball in the back of the net inside the opening 3 minutes but uh the flag curtailed his celebrations and that’s why it still stands at nil nil not too much for either keeper to do

Beyond that here’s Jovi with a p ball from him and giving away straight to nooski and here’s Taylor just about to cross the halfway line on the near side the Celtic left maida now with his back to goal plays it back to scales scales again brings over the halfway line out

To Taylor Midway inside the mother will half closed down by Miller and goes to IAT who’s tracked by be Taylor then gets the pass back into the center circle to nooski forward he comes and then out to the right hand side for Nicholas koun one of the Celtics two January

Purchases baky goes uh much to the despair of paky Bonner but it’s out to the left hand side now for Taylor and then maida with a dreadful attempt across goes all the way straight behind behind Liam Kelly’s goal a goal kick to Mother 23 almost 24 played here mother

Nil Celtic nil well Celtic shift the ball across to nooski on on on the right side of the defense he can of drives for he should have drove forward a little bit more and commit the the left side of a three midfielder and that creates the

2V1 in the wide area for Celtic but when the ball he plays out to and it’s all very very slow and he doesn’t do anything what it and it just breaks down again from From sel’s perspective they’ve got to do it sharper and have confidence as he can go and take on a

Fullback McGregor manages to get the ball through to but he’s given it away Divine now crossing the halfway line maida trying to get back to him he plays it forward though to bear and then back to Vil and spittle on the left hand side he’s got support in the shape of jent

But he comes back in field to mcin about 15 yards inside the Celtic half mcin trying to play in the right channel looking for bear but there’s too much in a pass and it’s straight behind for a a Celtic goal kick and you can see the idea there from again the space was

There but it wasn’t properly executed the F bear standing in an offside position they standing behind lame scales when Paul MCD lifs his head he’s looking for him to come out and run around the front of lam scales and run back into the space but because he’s

Offside all the time Paul M has to play it it has to be better mother missing far too many first passes when turn the ball over as well McGregor down the left hand side finds o’re at the edge of the Box stands up to the back pulls just a

Bit too much on it keeps it in but he couldn’t do anything with it and Jan steps in that was a good position there for O’Reilly but it wasn’t the best passes as IAT picks up Midway inside the mother will half back out to the right hand side for Johnston infield it goes

Couldn’t find could though with the pass and mother will have it zosi a little bit hesitant at the edge of his own box but ball does come through to Divine plays It Forward onto the chest to Bear good Hold Up play he’s caught there by Taylor and Willie colum hesitates before

Awarding the free kick he’s looking to try and play an advantage it didn’t really acrew and a mother wall instead will get the free kick just inside their own half willly Colin was right I thought just just let the play go for that couple of seconds to see

How I’m thinking you say that again well colum was right well I don’t know we we don’t say that too often I like to see a referee let the advantage go for a little bit yeah absolutely it’s out for a throw in now though over on the far side to

Celtic Midway inside they don’t half to be taken by their own Canadian International aliser Johnston missed the last couple because of that head knock awful head knock he took at Easter road but thankfully able to resume duties here at right back for Celtic this afternoon with Anthony ralon on the

Bench mother will have a throw in over in The Far Side Midway inside the Celtic half still nil nil with 26 and 1 half minutes played and uh really no test for either goalkeeper as yet uh Joe har did have to pick the ball out of his net but

It was offside as we know from theer there’s a dive there really you’d have to say in the penalty area it was Veil I think going down under very minimal touch from nooski and um he looked pleadingly towards really call and punch for the goal kick but I mean

That would have been extremely soft to that been given yeah and and that’s the second time I think the one against neosi was exactly the same he went to ground fairly easily so uh but he’s got away with it young man once again showing his threat isn’t it he’s getting

Beyond the Celtic back line he’s forcing the Celtic players into making decisions and challeng on him good ball from Taylor comes off the head of maida who was just trying to get on the end of it and I was rather unfortunate for Celtic and maida there because it looked like a

Good ball clip forward by Taylor but just skimmed off the top of that bald pit of Da and maida P is it me or or or does maida look nowhere near the player he was this time last season I think he looks miles away Hy looks a little bit

Disinterested at times for me that that for me at times even off the ball when when he walks around we but he does something in any walks a little bit I think in the past he had that energy about him that sort of almost closing people down to and working back to win

The ball and that he’s almost trying to find himself again which is which is a really worrying time I just wonder if the the relationship that the the Japanese players had with an POA kogu who obviously brought them to the club and had a a knowledge of them all I wonder

If that’s affected him his absence kyogo is obviously I think we can also say not being the player he in the past couple of Seasons either yeah I I’m not going to comment on that to be perfectly honest because that’s really done about man man management then and and getting

Them you know everybody listen we all love different managers we’ve been under but we’re professional players we’ve got to react to to the managers and in different ways some people talk to you some don’t talk to you I don’t think an POA was talking to him on a on a daily

Basis but because he maybe came and from that environment he worked in that environment he knew them and they were comfortable with that that might be the only thing I would pick up on with a good run forward but couldn’t pick out a teammate with a pass in the end and dine

Gets it back to kayy as uh he knocks it forward and scales straight out of play for a throw to well more or less in the halfway line right hand side nil nil and the reason to say that alist is because Beyond doubt is the quickest player in that pitch Beyond

Anybody however watching him you wouldn’t think that and I watched him last week against karik fastest player without doubt on the pitch against karik but he didn’t show often enough whereas last season he was the Infectious one py right but going and set at the tone so I

Think when he gets up to speed then that’s one s can definitely improve nski clears from just outside his own penalty area mother trying to keep it in Celtic territory Casey picks up in a halfway line heavy touch though and not forward by O’Reilly mgab has got to be careful

Here with kyogo luring he’s done well to bring out to this right hand side and feed it forward looking for Bear can bear bring under control scales is close to him bear tries to skip away from scales and Taylor it’s good work from the Canadian and Taylor eventually just

Forces it out of play for a mother will throw in at 10 yards inside the Celtic half right hand side quickly taken by m to Miller M gets it back and then plays into zosi forward for be bear touches it back to Divine forward now for Vil Vil

Looks up tries to pick out a teammate spittle now it’s jent takes a touch edge of the Box tries to clip it over Joel har and it’s over the crossbar instead terrific move Blair spittles Furious he wants jent to take that on first time I think either way the execution was poor

But the move was terrific brilliant Play All Around Jack ve in the Blair SP from right to left middle of the 18 Yard Box helped on what would say in his defense I think the ball was spinning the way it was coming to him he was having to take

A touch to try and get it under control I don’t think he stopped to spin because as he struck the ball hit the outside of his left foot and went over the cross bar but there’s certainly more than enough encouragement here for motherwell that if they get the passing right they

Get the movement right they can hurt the Celtic back line yeah well Celtic haven’t been able to put a a move like that together in the game we’ve gone beyond the the half hour mark and arguably George jent should have been testing Joel Hart in the Celtic goal

There but a terrific four or fan move there spittle picking out jent but uh just unable to test the keeper as Celtic try and come forward now out of play off the head of mugabi good defensive header and CTIC will have to throw in down about 10 yards or so away from the

Corner flag left hand side to be taken by Greg Taylor still we await the Breakthrough for either side at for Park in the final Premiership game as oy tries to bring it under control couldn’t quite do so and macabi just Hoops it up the park bear

Felt he was being fouled there by scales I don’t think so just out of play off the Canadian and thrown by Celtic and scales is quickly taken for nooski M well have done really well in the middle of field to to almost kill the space from McGregor AATA O’Reilly to

Working uh and they’re forcing that ball wide which we know is another great Bo it’s a brilliant ball from spittle for bear in that right channel he’s get no support though scales has forced him out to the right hand side of the Box still beer looking to hold it up tries to get

The shot away it’s charged down but Divine picks up Miller will just try and keep it alive maida back there working then gets it clear mother will pick up once more through BL sple and I mean his uh his passing ability quite apart from his dead ball threat is quite remarkable here’s

Kyogo though at the other in picking up trying to go through a gap between shovi and macabi and the mother old Duo just managed to force out of play as Celtic looked to counter uh nothing comes of that at the moment but uh as sp’s return

Is crucial for for mother team I mean without eulogizing too much alist he’s a class footballer he’s really good to watch he’s really good with the ball at his feet his vision his control his awareness everything about him does he possibly lack that y a little yard of

Pace to go to the next level but certainly for mother this season he’s been an outstanding player yeah signed by Stuart kwell up at Rose County and he was uh he was effectively eulogizing him as well uh recently and his importance to the team nine goals eight assists coming into this

One the game against Hearts was the first he didn’t start all season he’s back in the starting lineup and he’s played a couple of really beautiful balls already this afternoon here comes Celtic right hand side Kon having to go back the way mother W forcing him that

Way as uh he tries to slide up pass through the middle unable to do so it does eventually break for Johnston O’Reilly back for McGregor Midway inside the mother W half McGregor to the right hand side for O’Reilly O’Reilly on that left foot nudges it back to McGregor

Slid it through kyogo good save Liam kayy for sight of goal for kyogo to it first time on the spin on the right hand side but Liam Kelly stuck out the right boot and kept it out certainly Going On Target and Celtic’s first real threat of

The game after 34 minutes here they come once more kyogo challenged in the air by Casey and then just brushed aside by macabi and mother will come clear but kyogo with his first effort of go looking for his first goal in nine away games denied by Liam kin it was a good

Stop py it was a good stop great save with his feet but that was the movement of of kogo and the pass from that M we talked about him Kum McGregor just looking for the Run looking for the space and a lovely penetrating pass but then you you’ve got good movement and

Down the of the the center halfes and he and he brought a really good save out of Liam Kelly silx probably the only big chance in the game so far well they’ve had to be patient it’s taking them 34 minutes hasn’t it they eventually find that space eventually to work it out and

I’m sure that’s something that Brandon Rogers will be trying to reiterate to them at half time don’t be impatient don’t try and force the ball there’s a check for a penalty here K goes down uh receiving treatment I mean he was brushed aside by mgab I

Described it as I didn’t seem more than that to me at the time however uh Gavin Duncan is the bar and he’s uh no penalty uh a fairly quick check whatever it was um and it didn’t seem at first glance essentially like it was a

Foul kilo having to be having to go off here having had a little bit of treatment not sure what the particular knock he took was but off he comes having just been denied by Liam kayy the first sight of goal he’s had he’s got two in his last two games and looking to

Add to that tally this afternoon but Liam Kelly keeping him out on that particular occasion and is the mother W keeper who’s knocking this one long scales gets his head to and he had to because Miller might have been in veale trying to help it on for bear and it’s

Knocked out of play over in The Far Side better play again from motheral 10 minutes till the interval still nil nil as K waits to come back onto the field of play he’s allowed back on his mother will take the throw on the far side played back the way to spittle left hand

Side low ball in not his best IAT clears picked up by Casey about 10 yards inside Celtic half back to macabi macabi just inside his own territ plays It Forward not a great ball by any means as nooski picks up then O’Reilly forward for kogo

Kyogo tries to knock it Beyond M but M just gets a foot in and then Casey back to help him out and just plays over the halfway line but kyogo just beginning to come to life in the game in the last few minutes as nooski crosses the halfway

Line and plays out to the right hand side for Johnston well challenged though by jent Midway inside the mother will half throw in to Celtic 36 and2 played mother will nil Celtic M yeah I don’t know why K comes inside and you know and stands in beside the other Center half

It almost makes it easy for the center half to pick him up you want to open those three guys up and and and and stay wide and then give that Center half a decision do I go out and help the the wing back or do I stay inside and that

Opens up the in space for the likes of kyoga to make his little runs and so on so to give another throw in over in The Far Side just seen a rerun of the kyogo chance I think he might have just slightly rolled his ankle as he was

Taking it on I think maybe that’s why he was needing treatment but he’s certainly back on and uh involved in play once more as scales plays it to IAT 8 minutes of the first half remaining still no goals as Celtic try and narrow the gap on Rangers

To 2 points five at the moment with this game in hand as Lena Miller picks up though for mother tries to feed out to the left hand side but straight out of play and it will be a throw into Celtic more or less on the halfway line alist

Johnson quickly throws it back to nooski and he finds his Central defensive partner Liam scales now Taylor in the halfway line back for scal as it goes pretty even game so far you would have to say as nooski plays It Forward toy then gets it back the Polish

Defender out to Johnston Johnston tries to play it down the line comes off Jen O’Reilly keeps it in play jent makes another another challenge and it’s out for no it’s actually out for a mother will throwing must have come off O’Reilly last the assistant referee with

A far better view than me and uh jent just hobbling slightly as he moves forward to allow Dan Casey to take this throw in I would say the pitch is not conducive to flowing football is it you know the pitch is probably as poor as

It’s been for a number of years due to the inclement weather the winter we’ve had so it’s bobbling about a little bit s like aren’t managing to get the tempo into the game that they want which is probably helping mother well it’s making a little bit Scrappy at times Miller

Plays It Forward nski up to win the header spittle in nods it back forward for Bear poor first touch from him still goes in to challenge his fellow Canadian Johnson and it breaks high for zovsky who tries to get it back to him but he

Heads out of play and it’s a throw into Celtic a little bit Scrappy just at the moment certainly as Steven saying the pitch not helping footballing matters but Celtic have it through Liam scales Midway inside he own halfway we get a goal before before halftime well all the

Goals have come pretty late in this fixture so far this season the one-1 draw at Celtic park there was a turnball penalty after 86 and Jon oa’s very late equalizer and then uh the previous game here Palmer put s to aead in 87 spal equalized in 90 O’Reilly with the winner

In 90 plus three so maybe we will have a a bit longer to wait for any goals if those games are anything to go by Here Comes Celtic though looking to change that but Divine steps in and pokes it forward and then Vale helps it on for

Bear bear holds it up back in field for Vil challenged by scales knocked out of play by nooski but it came off Vil yeah Willie colum T to a Nick off Veil on its way through and it is a Celtic throw just down in front of the motheral

Dugout Stuart kwell and Stevie fril both out barking instructions to their players just uh just over five to play in this first first period no goals as yet as scales plays it Square to nooski into the feet of kyogo poor touch from him unusually and SP able to play

It forward and now Bears one on one with scales what can he do here up towards the edge of the penalty area can he take him on can he get a shot away scale stands up well gets the Block in heart able to prevent it going out for a

Corner kick by diving to his right and clawing it away and then Johnston picks up and plays it forward for iata now McGregor that was a chance for mother but be not able to make the most of it here comes Celtic looking to counter and get the opening goal it’s maida left

Hand side up against Divine comes in field away from one challenge the vine able to get something on the ball but it breaks to McGregor about 35 yards from goal now Johnston Midway inside the mother half out to on the right hand side up against jent checks back in

To McGregor left foot on the edge of the Box tries the shot blocked there in it’s a foul on l Miller by the Celtic captain and it will be a free kick to mother four minutes left in this first period motherb nil Celtic nil yeah once again

It’s the vision and the awareness of play spittle that frees up the beon a 1 V one against Liam scales and that’s where C really have to be careful because that’s four or five occasions in this first half where central Defenders have been isolated 1 V one back and off

Towards their own goal eventually if you keep giving players those opportunities you’re going to take it you have to say Liam skills does eventually to end it well but it’s certainly a risky PL Packy yeah very very risky it was a really dangerous situation there I’ve got to

Say that Li scales come out on top here’s a chance for M the left hand side jent on the left place it into the box there a rather hopeful looking ball not a particularly good one Taylor Just nods it out of play on this near side jent

Had more time and space to deliver a better ball than that it appears to me but uh it will be a throw into mother about 10 yards from the corner flag on their right hand side as they attack 3 minutes remaining of the opening 45 plus

Stoppage time at F Park no goals to speak of as yet Divine with the throw into the feet of veil track there by McGregor who just knocks out of play again for another mother ball throw in just a little bit nearer that corner flag on the right hand side as they look

For a a late goal they thought scored an early goal but Theo be was flagged offside inside 3 minutes as Veil gets it back to Divine now it’s stovsky right hand side into the feet of Miller a lovely turn away from McGregor lays it back now shot goal Blair

SP has the opener and what a goal it is lovely bit of play from l Miller leaving K McGregor standing lays it Square to Blair spittle he just sweeps it Beyond Joe Hart from the edge of the box that is how to finish it’s mother will one

Celtic nil well I have to say It’s a Wonderful finish for Blair sple does all the work I’m not too sure how much he knows about the turn but he finds himself free inside the box he could have had a shot the G think Cub on his

Right hand side he lefted his head he rolled across the 18 yd box and if it was one player well wanted to be having that strike from the edge of the box it was Blair SP just nonchalant inside of his right foot curled it Beyond joart

And you have to say on the basis of chances created and effort and energy and desire in the game mother to be ahead what a goal from Blair spal magnificent strike m i I mean magnificent bending away from the goalkeeper Joe Hart had not a nerly when

He struck that ball uh no I don’t think any goalkeeper would have saved it because of the way that he struck and the way that bent away from the goalkeeper right into the side net and and it was a brilliant almost created uh situation to be created for him to take

On that strike but you’re right Steven they deserve probably to to be in the lead at this moment time they’ve had the better chances they’ve they’ve worked the situations really really well uh only their final decision at times let them down in in certain situations Cel struggling to create one real big chance

From kyogo well how did the Celtic respond to this adversity they’ve not been at the top of their game by any means in the opening 45 and now they Trail by Blair spitt’s 10th goal of the season to nil and what a fabulous goal it was check that one

Out on Sports scene tonight at quarter 7 on the BBC Scotland Channel and also you can see how Celtic react stick with us for the second 45 Celtic looking to try and draw themselves level though before the halftime whistle goes it’s Greg Taylor up at the edge of the penalty

Area but he can’t find a way forward and he has to go back to nooski Blair Spit with a moment of real quality there here’s Alistar Johnson the right hand side that’s a good ball maida just couldn’t get it on target at the back post stooping to try and direct it

Back on target but it was too fast for him and he couldn’t do it and it’s behind for a goal kick and it remains mother W one Celtic nil yeah it was a great cross into the back post I think you call it the half chance I think he

Was always struggling to get on the end of it because of the pace of the ball got him s he gets into those positions uh regularly um Maya but there’s never seems to be an end product from it but that was a good ball and and at least it

Came an early cross in between the goalkeeper and the back five uh and that created the the slight opportunity for Celtic 4 minutes added on we’re into that now as mother will look to ensure they going at the interval in front here’s lenon Miller who created that goal wonderfully well and he’s just

Knocked that one straight out of play but the 17y old you said he he had a tough few minutes earlier in the half uh Steven but uh you know to be capable of that amount of composure to be I think you’re doing a little bit of a

Disservice with the turn I thought he knew exactly what he was doing well I wasn’t sure because there was two or three players in the facin he was trying something and it came off for him which is absolutely great and that’s the areas to try it in you don’t want to be trying

It towards your own goal so thir play to but you’re right he then lifts his head and has the awareness to it across the Blair p as opposed to panicking and thinking I have to have a shot I’m perplexed by the way but when I’m looking at those areas in the wide

Are M playing with two Wing backs to playing with a full back and two fullbacks and two Wingers it should be on all day to create 2 V ones in those areas but every time the ball goes to the center half K comes inside to the

Center half or the the left Center back and he’s easily picked up and then leaves in a 1 V one situation and uh C are struggling to to get down the sides it’s a throw into Celtic over in The Far Side the Celtic right to be taken by Alistar Johnston here who

Played a minute and a half of stoppage time here’s nooski back to Joel Hart to Liam scales now just inside the mother W half back comes bear forcing him to go Square to nooski Liam skills for Taylor now stepping forward looking to feed it forward for maida but

Divine cuts it out he at a good game at the Young Wing back her mother will have dealt with that danger and play it forward now for Bear up against scales once more he just slides in knocks it out of play into the main stand here at

F Park beer picks himself up as well he’s put himself about well cause problems for that Celtic back line he’s been a real handful he has whether it’s holding the ball up yes at times he’s a little bit loose with his touch and he

Can take it in but he’s good in the air he’s physically strong he’s running in behind Lam scales and naos they look really uncomfortable against him Veil and scales now battling it out as uh scales goes back the way and just hammers it out of play again he’s

Looking for a free kick from the assistant who was close to play but it’s a throw in instead to motherwell a minute and a half of stoppage time yet to play 1 nil motherwell lead thanks to bler spitt’s magnificent strike just a few minutes ago here’s Lon Miller

Combining with Divine once more down that right hand side that’s not a bad ball in from Divine scales Scoops it out of play again no and it’ll be another mother wall throw in with just a minute to play of the stoppage time that we had ared on as Divine takes the throw in

Miller can’t find a teammate that time maida picks up but they were battling away though to try and win it back and they’ve done so and here’s him again right hand side trying to step away from McGregor he’s managed to get the cross and it’s not a bad cross it’s just

Behind Theo beer there no other mother players in the penalty area allowing Johnston who’s uh seems to have discarded his uh facial mask for the time being and just plays It Forward rather aimlessly all the way through to Liam Kelly who will take as long as he

Can before uh comes to try and close him down eventually picks up the mother W goalkeeper and Captain and you can hear the home fans round about us rising to their feet and H finding their voices in a claim for what’s been very impressive you’d have to say first half

Showing from them and it’ be difficult to argue they don’t deserve to go go in with the advantage at the break which uh will be confirmed in just a few seconds by Willie colums halime Whistle and they’re winless in the last 30 games against Celtic but they’ve made

A good uh fist of setting up a victory to end that particular run of form as the halftime whistle does sound and mother W well they had the ball in the net very early in the half that was chopped off as Theo be was de have been offside and confirmed by

VAR Celtic really struggled for the opening half hour to really create anything until kogo was picked out by a terrific Kum McGregor ball and on the spin he was denied by Liam kayy that was all really the mother W keeper had to do in that first half and then just a

Couple of minutes before the end of the 45 there was a terrific but a scale on the edge of the box from the 17-year-old Len Miller to free himself of McGregor and then play the square ball for Blair spittle who swept it Beyond Joe Hart

From the edge of the box into the far corner and that is why at F park at half timee it’s mother W one Celtic nil mother well versus Celtic from the edge of the B oh what a strike this is sports sound from BBC Radio Scotland not the best in Europe we’re

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Offering this afternoon of course live commentary here from fire Park where motherwell have the lead Blair spittle the T man for motherwell this season was the man who who scored it he’s now joint top scorer alongside Theo bear the goal was a thing of beauty but they threatened Steven kraan so many times

Didn’t they they did and it was very simple and very easy for them in the early stages of the game Richard it wasn’t really as if it was five and six passes and good link up play it was just simply a long ball over the top but I’m

Not taking any credit away from the likes the Blair SP or Len and Miller who were playing those passes the option was there for them because the S back line was so disjointed they were so high and there was spe space for the be there was

Space for Jack Veil to go and work in so when that opportunity is presented to you you have to go and take it of course the players have to have the execution to put the pass into those areas to threaten and they allow the center forwards to run but it probably summed

Up Celtic’s defensive performance so far that it’s four individuals playing in the back four there’s no real connection there’s no leadership there’s nobody dragging people together there’s no communication they just look as if it’s a right back two Center halfs in a full back playing on their own and looking

After their own little bit space as opposed to looking for your teammate and trying to cover each other and trying to help out mother will have tried to explode it they’ve had a little bit of success from it I thought it was going to drift off the halftime at nil nil

Which I’m sure St K well would have been absolutely delighted with I said to you head of the game that mother will need a complete performance to win the game they’ve had a complete 45 there there still 45 to go and I’m sure you watched the game up at abine recently after 25

Minutes from the three up so with this mother team you can’t take anything for granted however they’ put themselves in a really good position I think they worked ever so hard they’ve missed too many first passes at times when they’ve turned the ball over a Midfield they’ve

Given away straight away the option is there that if they make the first pass and the second pass they can then play forward and look to hurt Celtic but all around it’s been a good competent first half but they Starly a lot of work to do

Yeah a lot of work to do but they they’ve been strong defensively this afternoon haven’t they I they no appreciate cuz we saw the Jackel and hide of them in particular in that game at P but they they’ve curtailed Celtic that there has been the the early Greg

Taylor strike from outside the box there was d m a half chance if he slid in the back for it really was just that one one clear opening wasn’t it for kogo and I think the manager deserves a bit of critic as the shape of the team is very

Good and I know P’s a little bit frustrated that Celtic have or should have a 2V1 in wi areas the three Midfield players are the outside of the Midfield three Lon Miller’s working ever so hard to get the Greg Taylor on this uh left hand side for Celtic and I think

Uh Blair SP is working ever so hard they get across to aliser Johnson the back five haven’t really move they’re staying and situ they’re not wanting to come out of the slots they’re going to force Celtic to tra play around them over the top of them through them and they

Haven’t managed to do it they’ve done it once I think you mentioned it on kyogo that was the one so I’m sure St will be trying to address that but they’re hard to play against they’re Resolute they’re resilient they need to do that same thing again cly have to be better I

Would imagine Adam Adam may come on at some stage uh oh may come on at some seon they have to mix it up because what they’re doing at the minute simply isn’t good enough plus py will go on to it the two wide players have to take more risks

For Celtic you’re a wide player because you want to go One V one against people you don’t want to get the ball and pass off to someone else take a little bit of responsibility well let’s find out just how frustrated Pat boner is very watching that uh and I’m frustrated

Because Cel haven’t asked questions on well they’ve not asked any questions they’ve gone out and they’ve played their positions fine kept the ball flowing that’s fine but you’ve got to go and ask the opposition we’re going to do something different here and if I’m frustrated because I look at the right hand side

Especially on the left is slightly different Maya they know he’s quick know he’s strong he’d get him behind so pin coming across young Millers doing his job Adam Divine they’re doing their job in my and doing it quite well and that’s that’s a difficult one Greg Taylor’s not

Been able to overlap him and so on for the past but on the other side that’s it’s really frustrating watching it Nicholas is playing as a as a Winger you’ve got Johnson as a fullback 2v one okay what Coon’s doing he’s going inside too early he’s going in and top

Dan case’s delighted absolutely delighted as a center half come on in here I’ll pick you up and you’re not going to get any and if he stays wide he gets the ball the first thing in his mind is he only put one cross to the back post and that whole 45 minutes

Celtic who should be dominating the ball and you have a Winger there and he comes back and he gives it back or he’ll run inside he’ll give it to somebody Square in Midfield and so on his job is to get the ball and go and TCT the young Wing

Back and and if he can’t do it Alison Johnson should be either going on the inside or on the outside giving him an opportunity where he can slide him in and if he doesn’t go M Relic can can go for Midfield the other problem is you’ve got um the center half nooski he’s

Picking the ball up he’s going to you look go drive into Midfield ask questions of the midfielder he has to come to freeze up matell but he’s gone halfway and then he’s just heading that simple pass either wide or to to aliser Johnson he’s not they’re not asking

Questions of that Midfield that Midfield of mwell are really doing well but they’re not being challenged they’re sliding across really really well they’re taking care of McGregor or Riley and somebody sitting in on the water and and they’re just getting it wi and the wide areas is where Celtic needs to you

Know that’s for for me where and especially D said where they can exploit this but they’re not thinking about it I don’t know what it what it is whether it’s lack of confidence whether it’s decision making whether it’s uh players who tactics is instruction yeah things

You ask because just to add further to the Brandon Rogers against an POA cogo tactical setup when an po was manager at Celtic and he come up against the back five his two wide players stood on the touch line and they made sure mother was back five or in this occasion would have

Stayed as a back five but because Coon’s coming inside and M has gone inside it’s making it easy for Dan Casey is a left Center half he just pops on that’s your point he pops on and picks up K and Georgie jent just picks up alist absolutely whereas if they stay white

Then what do they do well then they have to make a decision what do I go tight with them as a wing back does somebody else coming on and make a run Beyond me now I’ve got to track him do the center half go out of the space that he wants

To protect on the inside the one time the Celtic exploited was when McGregor picked the ball up over the right hand side and he slid the ball through for Koga run down the side of the center halfes now I’m not sure if Dan Casey was out of position then but certainly there

Was a space where they exploited you’ve got to start moving people around Brendon talked about it before the game he says they worked hard on positioning uh early getting into positions getting in that means movement yeah but but I don’t see that movement working well you picked up on that beforehand you said

That’s what you’d be looking for you clearly are not getting it just look I know it’s by no means just about Nicholas but this is like this is like deja vu all over again but um in terms of your assessment of the game at Easter road yeah I’m not listen I I

Don’t want to criticize any young man coming in but when you come in you’ve got to make an impact he doesn’t go past he doesn’t go past the defender he doesn’t want to go past he doesn’t S even if he loses the ball but trying to go pass at least you’ve created you’ve

Tried to create something but if you get a ball and you and your first touch is almost well I no I’ll turn back again and give it back to a midfielder or a center half or wherever go on if you do it 10 times and you get three four

Crosses tailing crosses in get to the B line cut them back whatever it is or you link up with somebody to go into that position then you’re doing your job I just don’t see it I I I just I don’t know whether it’s he feels that that

Maybe does he fit into the Celtic team yet he’s a young man he’s only come to the club and you’ve got to give him time absolutely understand that but s don’t have time that’s the problem they need to One games they need players on that pitch that can go and absolutely create

Now and make chances how many times has the ball come across that near post what have we seen before in the past K go in the near post bang goal the ball never comes there anymore there was one good cross from Alis Johnson but it

Was it was one of them that was hit really early from an early position High out almost level with the corner of the Box in between it was a difficult ball for me to get on to and that’s it that’s that’s it for me nothing else M will

Have had the better chance they’ve worked hard they their decision making at times in Midfield let them down when they could have been better positions uh and they’ve got their goal and and and it was a brilliantly worth goal I’ve got to say I know you didn’t give credit to

The young man on the but I thought he did really well say it again just an old C Richard you’ve got to be but sorry just further on from that point when you think back about kyogo and people are talking about he’s not the same player

He doesn’t look the same player he knew last year when leil laar got the ball wide in the right the cross was going to come in he knew when J got the ball wide in the left the ball was probably going to come in and he knew when real he

Picked the ball up Midfield he was probably going to look for him so suddenly he’s thinking with my three options last year the the supply chain that I had last year is no longer here and I know we can’t keep Haring back to it but that’s the main difference for

Celtic they don’t have those penetrating passes those dangerous crosses that are allowing kugo to be the player that he is listen when jotto was in the team I I I don’t want to be turning back to players we all can talk about the great Wingers of s gu the David Prov and Jimmy

Johnson and all these but that day is gone J is gone it but when you think about him he could go on the inside he could go on the outside he could get Beyond people he could create goals he had a he had a trickery in him and that

Opened up spaces and it also made opposition fear Him and decisions people then had to go double up on him that created space elsewhere I’m looking at this and I’m saying wow the wing back I’ll take care of him don’t worry about that yeah right Stephen I think we need

Just allow part a few moments just to just to settle back down no you you’re very energized by the whole sit situation unlike Celtic it has to be said in terms of of their performance mother well meantime um stepen you you laid out all those boxes that have to be

Ticked as of now they’ve ticked every single one of them haven’t they in the first 45 minutes they have but you said 45 minutes and I said ahead the game has to be 90 plus and that’s what they have to do so they’ve set the Benchmark for

How they’re going to play in the second half I can’t imagine Celtic are going to be as timid and as passive and as uh safe in the second half as they are in the first half they simply cannot afford to be someone has to take a little bit of responsibility has the Callum

McGregor positional change worked probably not they haven’t had enough ball to him maybe hasn’t had enough from the final third uh a hasn’t probably been you defensively as sound or hasn’t started the game or linked the game the way K McGregor would do in that number

Six role so cly probably need K McGregor playing where a what is and they probably need mcor need McGregor play where K McGregor is that’s just the nature of the business I used to said that about David turble when he was at mother we needed David Turnell to get the ball and pass

It to David Turnbull because he knew what to do at the opposite end of the pitch and S now have that same problem with call McGregor they need him in both positions to try and influence the game but K has to take responsibility maida needs to shake himself up he’s not

Showing anywhere near the level of performance that he did last season and beyond that he has to be bright he’s got to be Lively he’s got to get at people he’s got to show his pace and rather than just knocking the ball around nonchalantly hoping something’s going to

Happen someone’s going to have to put their head above the parit and go and grab the game with the off of the neck I’m looking at that Celtic team and I’m thinking there’s no leaders there’s nobody driving the team there’s nobody grabbing people and pushing the on and

Trying to force the issue far too pass that as easy a first half as a mother will back five will’ll ever have against Celtic I doubt it’ll be the same in the second half big run of Applause around 3/4s of the stadium as the mother World players make their way back out here

Come Celtic as well no indication of any changes at this point I think most of the Celtic FL players are back out they will keep our eyes peeled down at the side of the touch line but will they call him out with the ball and mother well are Midway towards

What would be a notable victory for them I think there is going to be a change and it is Ida who is coming on for kyogo for the second half uh there is a statement unless of course there is an injury to the Japanese who who did require a little bit of treatment

Earlier on right second half about to get up and running Steven Craig and Pat boner and Lament thanks again rich Rich has giving you the substitution news there yeah hugle did as I say I think he rolled his ankle slightly when he took the short late in the first period and

He did look uncomfortable and he has been replaced by Adamas it’s a completely different option up front now for Celtic a different challenge for the mother W backline as they look to hold on for their first win in 31 against Celtic you have to go back to Celtic

Park in December 2015 under Mark McGee when Lou molt scored a double to earn the Victory and you have to go back even further to April 2013 for the last home win against Celtic a 3-1 and they’ve uh lost 13 and drawn four since Here Comes Celtic looking to draw themselves level

But uh Swept Away out of the penalty area iwaa will pick up as Celtic attack the goal away to right hand side where their fans are gathered in this second period but uh Brandon Rogers needs more from every single one of those players out there than he got in the first

Period and he said to Jane prematch that had a good week’s training well hasn’t um really translated to the pitch so far but uh there’s still time to change all that as McGregor picks up on the left hand side and now it’s Taylor back to nooski one thing they’ve got to do is

Raise the tempo Celtic are always at their best when they’re playing at a high Tempo they’re difficult to handle when they’re doing so here’s in off the right hand side and the left foot Clips in easy one for macabi to head clear bear tries to release Veil Down

The left and nooski just turns it out of play and much what mother will really probably need to do Steven is try and hit them in the counter because they are going to you would imagine have to absorb a lot of pressure in this second

Period yeah and I’ve got to say the bear and Jack Vil have really kept nazki and and Liam skes onon us the full game even though such a simple ball pops out how often the center forwards just give up and not Chase it down he chases it down

Jack Veil and forces nooski to put it out for a throw and so they’re always a good Outlet maab has lost it to Ida just about but he just manages to recover and get it back to him again who just ho a play and that encourages the Celtic fans away to right

Mgab you always feel there might be a mistake in him he gets his head to the ball there and he can be a very effective Defender but you do imagine he just needs to keep it simple here come mother though at the other end the goal scorer

Sple into the penalty area off the head of scales before bear could capitalize sple almost winning it back there off oy Celtics still with some defending to do here bear trying to keep it alive inside the penalty area Celtics struggling to get it clear it’s veil on the edge of

The Box turns away from O’Reilly now zovi and back the way to mcin mcin closed down by MAA tries the ball in the inside of Taylor but he read it before Divine could make any Headway down that right hand side for mother w divine’s

Got it back on got it to bear and then it’s played forward by Miller he was looking to try and play Divine in again but he didn’t quite get that one right and it’s through to Jew Hart 3 minutes of the second half played and it’s still

Mother one Celtic now but here comes Kon trying to get in that’s a very very Fierce Challenge from Dan KY who’s actually I think pulled the haming in the process there and I think he’s going to almost certainly have to be replaced but he was taking absolutely no

Prisoners as he slid in on the angle of the box to dis possessed and um I wouldn’t be too surprised if mother will have to make an early change here Steven K well he had to get it right timing had to be perfect if he hadn’t it he could

Have put himself in a lot of trouble he gambled early he went the ground perfectly timed Tack and slid the ball out the play he is just back after a long injury I always think he’s M’s a better team when he’s in the back three he’s been really solid really aggressive

This afternoon but when a player grabs the back of his leg you can’t help but fear the worst it there’s going to be a HST stringing been a possible substitution yeah yeah it looks that way doesn’t it and and it’s good to see that the sliding tack back again but it’s

Also good to see somebody executed properly listen he went right through plus his own player I think took him out uh but he’s got injured um whether he’s done it in the tackle or whether he’s done it when he got up to to to go after

The ball again I’m not 100% sure but he certainly they will have to make a change they will have to do do it quickly if they’re going to do it because that’s a a very important position it’s actually coming back on so it’s uh clearly not a hamstring strain

Because there’s no way way you’re playing on if you’ve done your hm we’ll see how long he lasts at least but he is back on and play back underway but it was a full bloody challenge going back to the blood and snotter’s uh periods of P’s pump lovely description Al here come uh

Celtic down the right hand side alist Johnston good cross in but mgab gets it clear trying to keep it alive inside that penalty area mother ball have dealt with it picked up by iar right hand side keeps it in play as Celtic look for a leveler earlier in

This first period it scales now coming out of the center circle and finding Taylor Taylor Clips it into the box looking for EA great goal Adam an immediate impact off the bench at halim and he’s drawn Celtic level as he towered above the moille defense to head Beyond Liam Kelly mother will one

Shelting one yeah what a good header right in a great position right in the middle of that sixy box when that Ball’s played in played in with Pace all he’s got to do is directed on goal beat his I think it was Casey that was up against

Him whether he’s been uh affected with that injury I’m not 100% sure but certainly got up high great to see Adam I to score from open Play he scored a couple of penalties already but he’s made an impact as soon as he’s come on the pitch well we spoken half time cross

The ball clearly he’s a different proposition than what kogo is he’s more physical he wants to get against players but any doubt in your mind cross the ball into the Box gives you Center forwards a chance to get in the end of it it’s simple football great finish got a great

Header yeah it was a really powerful towering header from Adam to score his third goal for the club he got two penalties as py said at Easter road to win that one and he’s giving his side some real hope of being able to win this one as well having got them level so

Early in this second period yeah the thing interesting that there’s no complication in that get the ball wide put it in good cross into an area let the center forward go and attack it and that’s exactly don’t have to be in inate in your passing or or anything of that

Nature get the ball in the box and uh now it’s the visiting fans who Rejoice but they’ll be looking for another one at the very least they need the three points here this afternoon no doubt about that as uh Casey just knocks the ball off for Roy I

Think down the right hand side just there a little bit of the pitch that’s slightly obscured from our view but it will be a mother ball throw in on their left hand side to be taken by Casey who does look to have recovered uh from the whatever KN he took in making the

Challenge earlier on on here’s l Miller and now Veil on the halfway line challenged by a combination of I and Ma I wants a free kick he’s not going to get it and Celtic have it back and the home fans not happy with that lack of decision as Taylor pleas out to

The left hand side it was a terrific ball in from here’s McGregor now low ball this time defended by mgab out of the penalty area and iak gets it to nooski O’Reilly Celtic play him with a a bit more Verve at the start of this second period And clearly the goal Has

Lifted him as Johnson moves back to I slightly for ly gets it to left hand side to McGregor he’s put too much weight on the pass for maida unlike the Celtics Skipper who’s usually so good in measuring his passes and it will be a goal kick to mother will and it’s mother

One Celtic one with 53 plates yeah I think mother will just have to ride out the storm naturally when Celtic get the gold the CR up behind the goal there’s a real energy A Renewed Energy about Celtic they want to get the next one they want to get themselves ahead so

Mother will just maybe have to absorb a little bit of pressure make sure your Resolute be difficult to to play against be difficult to play through don’t concede a quick second otherwise your game can get away from you Liam Kelly to take the goal kick down this left hand side spittle

Beaten in the Jump by Johnston and picked up by the Irishman Eda AA plays it forward that’s a good ball for k at the edge of the Box Casey just trying to shepher him away from goal and eventually gets a good challenge in to knock it behind but Adam’s introduction

Has made a real difference for Celtic he’s given them a real spark he’s got the goal and almost set up C for the opportunity there as well yeah good good uh initial control and getting away from his Defender and then picking a really good pass that time running through

The middle uh so he was alert uh just couldn’t have the have the physical attributes up against Casey to to get his shot away corner kick for Celtic left hand side to be taken by the left foot of O’Reilly it’s an outswinger and bear gets his head to it and then Divine

Helps out of the box ve will try and L johnon been dragged by back there by Greg Taylor it’s going to be a yellow card for the Celtic fieldb and he had to make the foul I think because if Veil could have get the

Pass off to his left hand side he had a runner and will he call him once a free kick taken again it was taken too quickly for his liking as he was still making a note of Greg Greg Taylor’s name in his little black book and uh Taylor

Into that book his mother will will have the free kick just inside their own half but uh it was a quick break away from motheral could have been dangerous and Taylor taking one for the team in the in the end as M plays the free kick up

Towards the edge of the Box Johnston heads it clear forward by zosi for spittle spittle helps on bear causing problems again for nooski spittle takes over once more Johnson makes a challenge on him but spittle still has it down at the corner flag on the left hand side a

Little back heel Co in there to knock it away only as far as zosi sends in back post headed towards goal terrific save from Jo Hart it’s a brilliant hitter came in from L and Miller at the back post and Hart I think that was going to just dip

Under the crossbar and Hart reacted brilliantly to tip it over and mother were responding to the loss of the early goal in the second half with a good attack of their own and almost going back in front listen that was a great header because he was almost facing away

From goal and he’s kind almost clipped it with the back of his head towards the goal good save from Jo was a nice height for him to tip over we’ve got a game on now I’ve got to say corner kick then from the right hand side for mother to be taken by Georgie

Jent as they look to get their noses back in front it’s a good ball in but it’s just too high for Dan Casey to really be able to get any meaningful header on it is behind for the Celtic goal kick but as py says it is very much

Game on here 56 on the clock mother will one Celtic one and I think that’ll do mother of the worldly good because when you go behind it’s easy just to sit back and take a step back and not carry the fight to the opposition so having that

Little passage of play that little attt and goal will just convince him that there possibly still is a victory here for them but they have to make sure they defend properly Johnson with a p ball forwards and Liam Kelly will come out to the left hand side of his penalty area

And gather that one and Adam up denying him the space to quickly kick it long I think he was if I’m not being disrespectful here probably an underwhelming signing for the Celtic fans as he came in on loan at the tail end of the January transfer window from Norwich but from

What I’ve seen he’s he’s proved his wor so far Pocky yeah this is very early days he’s got to I’m delighted he scored from open play as I said you know two penalties fine good gck for confidence uh for the young man but if if if he can

Add those goals from open Play I think then he’s a real threat you know but he’s I I thought last week he held the ball up really well and and and brought players into the game he’s done it again coming on to this pitch today so I think

He’s got that ability also which is good good play from Celtic and it’s Johnston out to the right hand side for about 20 yards from the goal line up against H Georgie jent but it’s a cross that is deflected and Celtic pick up once more it’s McGregor back to nooski

On the center circle forward for Liam skilles scales for Eda can’t link up with a teammate that time and in Veil is brought to the ground by IAT Midway inside the mother really call him on hand to award the free kick 1-1 it stands and uh mother will having gone

Ahead late in the first period dragged back to level terms by Adam the substitutes early header interesting that Eda is the the first option that brandan Rogers goes to rather than o who uh had been his replacement up until ‘s arrival certainly what I would say on EA is I

Think he knows the British game he knows the rigors of it he knows the physicality and what’s theander of playing him whether it’s a Scottish game or an English Championship game so it hasn’t bother him coming up he loves getting physic the he loves getting tight and rolling people so doe there’s

Theo beer who’s trying to latch onto that long ball eventually it falls to spit who play out to jent left hand side for mother Midway inside the Celtic half now dra kovski for M inside the center circle it’s a pure touch MERS NE to off him Celtic have a overload here can he

Just stay on side so that maida can find him still maida on the edge of the Box mcabby holds him up back with IAT to the right hand side for O’Reilly 20 yards from goal tries to curdle it but it’s blocked by zovsky was a really bad error

By him again but looks like mother will have got away with it as the hour mark approach he still one1 scales for Johnston now O’Reilly once more about 30 yards from the mother will goal waits for Johnston to overlap him into the area it comes a poor attempted clearance

There by Casey O’Reilly Clips it back in need to get something on it Divine knocks it away mother W just toiling slightly at the moment but they have knocked it forward and again beer in a one-on-one M scales who does just enough to get it out to the left hand side for

Greg Taylor but so often Celtic are leaving bear one-onone whether it’s with nooski or scales and you do fear from a Celtic perspective that they might get caught as a result of that but does mean they’ve got an extra man going forward as they are doing just now and it’s

Johnston out tun on the right hand side of the mother penalty area infield to O’Reilly O’Reilly stands to the back P oh a brilliant defensive header from Adam dine it looked like maida was going to knock that into the back of the net still Celtic come it’s tayor looking for

I it’s a poor pass and then there’s a foul by a Celtic player in the edge of the box it gives mother a free kick and a bit of rest bite as uh mother will survive there terrific intervention Celtic about to make a a double change

Here we’ll come to you in that chance in just a moment but it’s Cameron Carter Vickers who’s coming on for M aosi and also coming on Yang I think for uh Nicholas Kon no great surprise there uh py but just going back to that chance there did look like maida was

About to put s again in front Steven and divine intervened yeah I have to say it’s brilliant Defender isn’t it where we are it looked as if Adam deine could got himself caught onto the ball and might have had a free header in but he manages to adjust his body he TS himself

So he manages to get the flick on it so it’s a huge header for him it really is and it’ll do him a worldly good defensively already I can see improvements in his defensive structure than what he was in his early stages can we call that divine

Intervention paky do you think yeah very much so he had to because uh although ma kind of struggled to know what he was going to do with the ball it was kind of does he get a shot away does he pass it does he go by the player it just was

Kind of none of us knew uh and it FL flittered out but from that perspective I think the game is the intensity has gone up I think it’s gone up from Celtic too and I think Adam Ida has helped uh he’s a threat now and he can play it

Into him I think they’ve off opened up a little bit in Midfield too where you know McGregor and um and oeli has kind of almost stretched the Midfield and that stretches the the Midfield uh players of of mwell and they’re not maybe getting close enough to them the

Distance is slightly different uh and that’s just giving Cel a little bit more time and controlling the ball and mother have’ got a free kick just inside their own half for one spittle gets it wrong he just tried to play it in behind for Jack Veil who’ been the player fouled in

The first instance to give Mother the free kick but it comes to nothing and here’s Carter Vickers back in action after missing the last four he’s had a an injury plagued season it’s just his 19th appearance and certainly his presence and ability have been a big Miss for Celtic as Yang there

His fellow substitute tries to play it forward it’s not a good ball from him though mother will bring it forward and spittle tries to play it with the outside of the right boot down the line but it’s gone out of play and so we’re on what 62 and 1/2 minutes and it’s

Still mother W one Celtic W and it’s still anyone’s game yeah Cameron Carter verus is a player who doesn’t mind going 1 V one against Center forwards he’s got good recovery Pace good physical press so Brandon Rogers is no fear putting him on if he ends up one-onone against the

Bear yeah you’ve got to think that’s what uh is in Brandon rers mind there and car Vickers if he can stay clear of injury for the rest of the season could be a huge player for Celtic as they look to retain their league title iata managing to get the ball before Jack Vil

Clipped forward by johnon but all the way through to Liam Kelly who just bows it over armed to Paul McAn who’ll still be breathing a sigh relief you imagine for his uh error that almost allowed D and maida in well it did allow him in but he didn’t really

Make the most of it as uh mother will try to sweep it out to the left hand side but it’s cut out by Yang and now it’s O’Reilly in the middle of the par back out to yang right hand side and back for Johnston Midway inside his own

Half a good ball to the left for Greg Taylor the sun coming out here in motheral as mgab gets his head to the through ball M just trying to help on he just looks slightly nervy at the moment and maida has it for Taylor and now it’s McGregor left hand side Taylor Who

Provided the assist for that e go it’s a pure pass this time from the fieldb and mother will bring it away or at least they tried to but Yang’s necked at the edge of the box and he just tried to step inside and mother again almost causing their own problems SP hurt

Himself at the edge of the box as he tried to stretch for the ball again they get away with it then car Vickers going in late on Jack Bale and that’s going to be a free kick a yellow card surely but he’s going to give the F he’s got to

Give the yellow card You’ imagine yeah he was very late just on Yang there just keep going I don’t know why why he wanted to check back inside uh when the space was there he was I think he was beyond the defender and just drive in

And have a strike a goal he was lucky to get the ball but that was an opportunity for him you said Paul MC is breathing a s Rel he tried to set them up again he had a really heavy touch did you cover the Morton game in the cup it a really

Heavy touch and that game was effective for the second goal that that’s the second time so when you play against C you’ve got to be diligent you can’t afford to keep presenting them with the ball no yellow cards inent for cter Vickers for that challenge but it is a

Free kick which has been taken by kayy here’s M again he just needs to settle he’s knocked this one back to kayy just outside his penalty knocks it long bear was offside but Vil will chase but uh in vain as uh Joe heart comes off his line

And collects that 65 and the CL mother W one Celtic one certainly if you’d offer Stuart c will a point before the game he would have taken it without doubts but uh having lead he’d be disappointed to have lost the goal so early in the second half and giving Celtics something

To work with that’s another wonderful bit of skill from BL sple to move away from Yang but eventually he’s dispossessed and yang will come forward down the right hand sight it’s not a great ball in case he can’t deal with it mgab does just hikes it out of play and

Uh at this stage you would have to say that Celtic L the likelier side to go on and get the next goal mother will have to deal with that here’s cariker just inside his own half Joe Hart well out of his goal to take the pass and then play

Out to Liam scales into the M half he comes out to the left hand side now with Taylor Taylor checks back forward then his pass is cut out and it’s forward to Bear but in steps iata to Rob him and mother will find it more difficult in

This second half to get up the pitch and for their forwards to hold the ball up yeah Sly much sharper in the second half you’ve got to say they’re they’re they’re winning the second ball also uh and they’re they’re moving the ball I think much better Carter vicker looking

For options eventually Clips it to Taylor who goes further to the left for maida maida looking to take on Define us a great ball in and yang at the back post it was a tight angle certainly and he can’t get it back on target well into the stand uh behind Liam Kelly’s goal

But good delivery in the first time maid has really managed to take on his man and get a ball into the box Packy yeah and there’s no there’s no big sort of kind of you know what would I call it no big big surprise and and what to do just

Get the ball out to your feet get it past the defender and put it in there with pace and that’s exactly what he did uh and and uh okay it was a little bit maybe on the heavy side Pace wise but at the end of the day it was into that

Great area don’t complicate the game as a wide player one job move the ball see a space fired across the goal and put the onus on Center forwards and Midfield players you make it sound so easy Steven it is it is players complicate the game

And want to come inside and want to link up and want to be inverted you a Winger cuz you want to go outside people not inside into the SP in the bodies but then if you’re a Winger you want to play on the side that you naturally kick with right rather than so

That’s the manager’s decision to play you as an Inver you should be twoot in the game that’s a different argument altogether isn’t it Divine has cut out the ball forward from tayor and it’s an opportunity for motherb to try and create something here Divine sends it in

Veil of the header but it’s well off Target Johnston doing just enough to put him off there at the back post and no threat for Joe Hart to deal with there 68 minutes played at F Park it’s mother will won Celtic won it’s been a brilliant game got to say the second

Half has really came alive Greg Taylor’s had a really tough five or six minutes two or three times he presented the ball to Mother well he was the one that passed it to Adam deine in that occasion and allow him to put the cross in for

Jack Bale so he’s got a smart not but a really good game Johnston’s played that forward for Yang who is on his favorite side as he plays in right footed but it’s dealt with by Casey at the near post spittle with a poor header those is giving it back to Yang inside the

Penalty area steps away from one shot is charged down by Casey claims for a hand ball v will have a look at that just to check one way or the other maida has it on the left hand side Taylor now for McGregor but 25 yds from goal back to

Taylor left hand side of the Box closed down but has to go back the way to IAT Midway inside the mother will half he in turn goes back to scale Stuart K well as trying to desperately get his players up the par but they’re entrenched inside

Their own penalty area right now as it’s clipped back into the edge of the six-yard Box Away by jent spittle can’t keep a hold of it and Johnston picks up McGregor though presents it to rovski who looked to be fouled there but Willie colum plays it all with mother still in

Possession but out of play and Willie call him yeah he just he was momentarily just asking the play to be stopped because I think there was a check going on but he’s quickly said not play on no hand ball for the claim just a moment

Ago when the shot came in at the edge of the penalty area Celtic Havoc we’ve got just over 20 minutes to play here 1-1 at stands Celtic get themselves back level early in the second period with arida off the bench at halftime to score a fabulous header in response to BL

Sp’s even better strike at the end of the first half which gave motherb the advantage Carter Vickers are just nudged to the ground there by Jack Vale and it’ll be a Celtic free kick Midway inside the mother W half and an opportunity here but have taken it

Quickly and short and it’s O’Reilly out to Yang Yang for Johnson Inside the Box a great ball M he’s got to score at the back post and he’s set it wide instead brilliant ball across the face of go from Al the Johns the MAA arriving

And he got a connection on it but he steers It Wide instead of On Target and remains mother well one Celtic one exactly what we talked about you overlap on the inside or the outside overlap and underlap is the word and he and he got himself into a great position Johnson

Yang just fed him in over the cross the six-yard box at back post and there was my a again how many times we say it gets into great positions he it always comes off that almost seemed impossible for him to put the ball to where he put it

It seemed easier to put the ball in the back of the net to try and somehow get it wide but another let off from other b s like really up the tempo the Jo has been closed down there by Ja Veil and it’s a goal kick in the end he just gets

Away with that veils hurt himself in closing down there he hesitated Joe just play it away I know there’s nobody in a in a right back position for you but play it into the space let them go and deal with it uh but don’t hesitate in your and in your almost inside your

Six-yard box he was inside a six-yard box and uh just managed to get away with that as veil’s challenge sent the ball wide of goal but Joe har could have been picking the ball out of his net again there as Johnston at the other end sends

In and mid again Rises at the back po but Divine doing enough to put them all for again MAA can’t threaten Liam Kelly’s goal but it’s end to end at the moment it’s anyone’s three points if they can go and take it and uh well the two contests so far

This season have been hard fought Celtic winning by the odd goal in three back in the end of September one each at Celtic Park and one each it stands here as mother wol are thinking about another change here with uh about 18 minutes left on the clock plus stoppage time

Liam Kelly preparing to take the goal kick I think mother will look a little bit laggy they put so much into the game you consider the first half the hard work the hard yards the the marking the running eventually it takes its toll and celic really up the tempo so St needs to

Bring fresh enthusiasm on here’s McGregor never lacking enthusiasm himself gets it back from Taylor just inside his own halfways at Square then for Johnston Johnston nudges it forward for O’Reilly O’Reilly out to the right hand side for Yang first time ball in isn’t a bad one Ma just over the top

That’s three chances in the space of a few minutes that maid has had that wasn’t a a bad one again Divine doing just enough to put him off as he arrived and got on the end of Yang’s ball into the box but Cela got a different team

This second half yeah I think he was unlucky there because the ball’s come to him he’s almost fallen down when he’s striking it just to keep it down keep the ball down uh would would have been the key to that but he’s just got it and

It left it over the crossbar but yeah you’re absolutely right the substitutions around here for mwell think Stevens called it but the freshness in the middle of the pitch yeah Sam Nicholson is going to come on and play Jack Vil who I think’s been terrific and does look like he’s

Been a good January acquisition especially in the absence of mik be who’s gone back down south and K butcher is going to replace Stan casy who took a knock earlier in the half and uh just trying to press things up at the back for mother will slight change in the

Back line with the butcher going into the middle of it and macabi the right of the back three and again coming to the left so uh couple of changes there for model as Steven says just to freshen things up because they have put so much into the

Game and uh it’s just beginning to take its toll with the what just about 50 minutes or thereabouts to play is steel bear chases one down up against Carter Vickers good good contest there physically and bear gets there just ahead of Carter Vickers and it’s out in

The right hand side for motheral back with zovi finds m m out to the left hand side now for jent jent with a poor touch he was just on his heels there and it’s out of play for a Celtic throwing just down in front of his Midway inside their own

Half 74 in the clock in fact and it’s mother W one Celtic one and the owners is on Celtic isn’t it I wouldn’t say they’ve got a bigger challenge ahead of them trying to chase Ranger’s mother of course trying to stand in the division but when you’re the overwhelming fear this illness is

Always on you to go and Chase the game and try and get the winner which could present mod over the chances you feeds it forward for AA down the right channel he goes butcher trying to match him AA gets it into the penalty area but meins

There and plays it out to the left hand side for jent back with M who just this time hoist up to the halfway line giving bear something to try and hold on to which he’s done well and he brings Divine into play and spittles and loads

Of space over in this left hand side he’s calling for it Divine tries to find him Carter Vickers goes up and wins ah header though comes to jent on the edge of the Box challenged there by Yang a good bit of Defending actually by Yang and then McGregor picks up for Celtic

And tries to drive his side forward matched by Divine McGregor picks the pass almost Soul tayor short there inep play and Miller and mother will do have it back through macabi it’s pretty breathless stuff here I have to say at F Park and I don’t imagine the closing 15

Minutes are going to be any different as macabi plays it down the right channel for the substitute Sam Nicholson former harsman he can’t find a teammate though Celtic have it back they’re going to shift it quickly out to the left hand side it’s Taylor Taylor on the touch

Line on that left PL just inside the mother half switches it for Johnston Johnston with a good first touch and then out to Yang Yang about 25 yards from goal he’s got room to try and measure across it’s a poor one and Taylor will go and Chase that and keep

It in he’s done well Taylor can he deliver here from the left hand side instead he goes into O’Reilly O’Reilly trying to lose his marker to the goal line he goes tries to force it across goal but he can’t r his foot round it to any a great extent and Liam Kelly able

To gather at his near post 76 played it’s mother one Celtic one I think Yang’s made a difference since he’s come on a little bit more energy there’s an end product you know he’s put about two or three great balls across uh the Box just keep feeding him he’s high in

Confidence to be fair haven’t watched Nicholas K in the first half it would have been hard to be worse than him be honest you know he had no final delivery had no crosses into the box where Yang’s obviously been giving the message when you go on the pitch out of your feet far

In there on comes Pao Bernardo here and he’s going to replace Tom IAT for the closing 13 and 1 12 minutes as mother prepared to take a throw in it was uh not quite sure there was some booing there I think coming from the C game but I’m not entirely

Sure who it was aimed at as such but uh anyway on comes Bernard and uh Celtic went it back and it’s Johnston for scales scales brings it Forward well it means that c McGregor now goes back into his his position where a was playing and Bernardo has gone into his position further forward

And Pitch but see can he actually deliver let see scales ball forward as well defended by mgab beer back to Z kovski forward comes Nicholson trying to get onto it but McGregor picks up the loose ball and now it’s aliser Johnson on the halfway line out to Yang who as

Paky says has made a a positive impact on the game since coming into back to scales halfway line 12 and 1/2 minutes for either of these sides to try and find a winner as I mentioned previously a lot of the or all the goals in the previous two meetings have come in the

Last few minutes so plenty time for either of these sides to grab that goal that might clinch the three points throwing is taken to Bernardo right hand side of the penalty plays it through the legs of zovi M and then butcher combined to get it clear for mother as a mother

Player down off the ball there it was Nicholson but uh no free kick given Celtic come forward E being dragged to the ground there by Butcher and it’s a free kick right on the edge of the Box a yellow card for Kum Butcher and this is

A big chance for Celtic yeah it’s a bit close but but it’s right in the middle of the goal difficult for the goalkeeper but that was definite foul and a definite yellow card because he had turned him he was getting away from him and he’s just wrapped his hands around

Him to pull him back and uh it’s right on it’s about 19 yards out right almost slightly to the right hand side of center it’s p Defender from butcher isn’t it you know against AA he wants to back in he wants the ball in when you’re the last Defender you probably have to

Take a step back and allow him to make his first move when the ball comes into him and then make the tackle whereas he got far too tight couldn’t see the ball and it’s a definite free kick yeah talking of positive impact Adam certainly made that since coming on at

Halftime a goal and uh causing all sorts of problems there for Callum butcher just rolled him and looked like he would get the strike away but fouled In The End by Callum butcher but Celtics still nonetheless have a a big opportunity here to move in front for the first time

Liam Kelly just has to defend one side of the goal and hope that this wall is going to do the job for him because uh if they get it up and down on that side I don’t think he’s so he’ll never have a chance but he’s got to make the big

Saving his own s OPP well this could be a red card for Callum B jar are checking that for denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity and Willie colum’s going to have a look at that and Callum butcher’s uh time on the pitch could be very shortlived here if he’s a judge to have

Been denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity ad amida was well he could have pulled the trigger no doubt if he hadn’t been challenged by butcher I guess the argument is is there any other mother World player in a position to try and stop him getting the shot off there um hoping to

See a rerun here there’s a group of players around about him though that’s what I what I notic whether whether he was last man was with Adam either did he turn him or was he going to get a shot away guess he would have had a free shot

A goal yeah that that’s what clearly willly colum’s going to go and decide and when you think of him in the middle of the 18 yard box if he turns it’s going to no it’s he’s just carry on it’s asws really call him sticking with the initial decision don’t see that too

Often do we to more so of late but uh so it’s still the the yellow for car but it’s still of course is going to be a free kick on the edge of the Box M Ry you’d have to fancy would be the one to take this Liam Kelly’s guarding the

Right hand side as he looks at it of his penalty or his goal mouth with the wall looking to try and cover the other side what can Celtic produce here it’s either O’Reilly or Bernardo to go for this as they look to get the goal that would put

Them in front for the first time in the game with just under 10 minutes remaining the wall he’s got what four or five mother players and a couple of Celtic players then a couple other mother players Bernardo leaves it to oy it’s a low shot easily blocked by the wall it

Wasn’t a good strike by O’Reilly still Celtic dble try and put the pressure on his Taylor sends it back into the box mgab heads clear McGregor tries to help it on O’Reilly picks up once more having been denied there from the set piece Taylor now Midway inside the mother wall

Half still one1 at stands 8 and 1 half to play plus stoppage time here’s yang right hand side looking to get the cross in denied that by gent and it will be I think it’s going out for a corner as O’Reilly comes across to this near side

Again it’s that part of the pitch we can’t quite clearly see but it does look like it’s going to be a Celtic corner Matt O’Reilly to take 1-1 with eight left and it comes it’s clut go by scales brilliant save by Liam Kelly that was goalbound well met by

Scales at the near post and Liam Kelly reacted brilliantly to keep it out and hold on to it and so it remains mother will one Celtic one yeah we’ve seen that run from scales before he scored from it getting across that near post getting the flick on he’s got a decent header it

Was a nice height for Liam Kelly to see uh and it was almost in the in the right area to goal for him to to to intercept and it’s all hands to the pump for motherwell isn’t it they really are treading water in certain areas of the

Pitch J Kell again going to make substitutions he needs to get his team up the pitch I think you got a look at that Callum butcher challenge there did you stevenh did you did what was your own view of it I think Paul mcginn’s closing in so Paul mcin may get the

Chance to make a tackle maybe make a lunge but I would say if buter doesn’t impede him he’s going to get a shot off so it could easily have a qu their red card Steven odono and OE Shaw are going to come on here for mother w shaw

Returning having not played since the end of 2023 uh off for coming Adam DeVine who’s put a really good shift as the right wing back he’ll be replaced like for like with o’donell and it’s lenon Miller I think is the other player to make way for o Shaw two experienced players

Though coming on yeah pretty attacking you have to say from St K well in terms of replacing l Miller with Shaw Steven yeah well it it’s just to try put a bit more of a threat up the pck because if you keep putting on Midfield players and Defenders you’re almost asking s or

You’re giving C the owners to come and get after you whereas if you put an attacking player on then they can get you up the pitch Palma’s come on good spot py Lis Palma is that for D mid I think isn’t it yeah again like for like

Over in that Left Flank another inverted Winger as uh both these sides look to try and claim the victory that could be so precious for very different reasons O’Reilly was caught late there but he gets the pass off to Yang still inside his back to Carter Vickers still time

For a winner that’s for sure is Liam scales who was denied just a moment ago by Liam Kelly finds Taylor now Palma left hand side across comes macabi though good interception and good reading of the game from him and knocks it into what they call the mother W boys

Or something like that you’ll know that Steven over on that Far Side making a racket and hoping that other side can at least hold on for the point here which would be hard earned but maybe well earned you’d see uh as Yang ball into the box is well defended and then jent

Pokes it forward for spittle whose goal open to scoring and it was uh fabulous effort Carter Vickers Going Down Under Pressure from beer eventually gets himself back up and plays it Square to scales forward for Taylor 5 minutes left plus injury time mother w w Celtic one a

Fascinating game it’s here at F Park a real test for Celtic can they come out of it with the three points that’s the challenge for them here’s Taylor 35 yard from goal Clips in Eden with a glancing header just wide Oh I thought he’d found his second goal there Liam kayy was

Rooted to the spot it looked like it might have been hit him for the bottom corner but disappointingly for EA just the other side of the post and it remains mother one Celtic one big chance for him he had it been sort of almost down to get a header away he couldn’t

Almost direct it across the goalkeeper he had to get a glan and header on it and it just goes to wrong side of the post big big opportunity for Celtic and for for Adam what if it says there wasn’t a lot of pace on the cross so

Whether he was trying to generate the power and has actually tried to put too much power on it hasn’t made enough of a contact but he probably should have scored it should be two on to Celtic well there was late heart AE here for mother will against Celtic the last

Time they visited as O’Reilly popped up with an injury time winner can they do something similar this time around as car Vickers plays it out to Johnston just inside the mother wall half Cela really been the dominant side in this second period getting the early equalizer after halftime and putting on

The pressure thereafter mother haven’t been able to offer too much in this second period but it’s a chance here for Bear to go and try and stretch the legs but Carter Vickers as Steven was saying earlier on is uh is fast and strong himself when he gets there first and

Plays it back to Joel Hart who finds Liam scales three and a half of the 90 left Taylor has it just inside mother territory knocks it forward to Bernardo and then gets it back the fieldb put under pressure there by Nicholson out to the left hand side Bernardo back to

Scales McGregor scales once more coming forward down the left hand side and it’s uh Palmer Palmer back in field to his captain K McGregor Midway inside the Celtic half now Johnston who’s coming off that right flank out to Yang about 35 Ys comes in to Central Area tries to

Squeeze the pass and he’s managed to do so for EA EA out to Johnston Johnston with a terrible attempt at Cross my goodness I mean the Canadians put in a few really good balls in this second period but that was not one of them all

The way out for a throw in the far side and mother will get a breather one more at stands that was great setup play lovely little ball played into again and holds it out in and then layser off into the space for Johnson just had a it was

Probably too easy for him everyone looks too disappointed with that cross apart from me I’m just looking at people beside me and they’re so yeah it’s a let off against celic really are all hands the they know they have to get the winner they’re going to have to gamble

They’re going to have to put balls in the Box players are going to have to get themselves in the Box it’s all the way back to juwel Hart at the edge of his box with just a couple of minutes left of the 90 it’s not a brilliant clearance

But it is picked up by O’Reilly whose pass again forces scales to just head back the way before retrieving and then finding Kum McGregor 2 minutes left plus stoppage time 1-1 at far Park as Palma has it on the left hand side coming in field trying to find the pass but it’s

Cut out at the edge of the mother W penalty area breaks for Carter Vickers out to the right for O’Reilly O’Reilly the man who scored that late winner here and he’s one his side of corner on the right hand side and the fans behind the goal all of a Celtic persuasion trying

To urge their side on to Victory here Willie Callum as uh stopping play for another motheral change to be made here and it’s going to be Shane blay a Defender who will come on for the closing stages here to replace Georgie gent as mother will look to cling on

Here they very much take the the point at this stage Steven yeah I think you said they would have taken a point before the game but then when you start clock watching you’re getting towards those 90 minutes High the players will be fully aware of the threat that Celtic have that the drive

They have to go right to the final whistle they’ve suffered in the past from it so they have to make sure they don’t do so again today a point we take mother B level with Aberdine and uh they hope they’ll propel them further up the table as things

Progress but it’s Celtic looking to claim all three points as O’Reilly sends the corner in well headed Away by bear but the whistle goes for a free kick in any event for mother inside their own penalty area and inside the final minute of the 90 it’s still all square mother

One Celtic one well you’ve got to say the Celtic were better in the second half but if they lose another two points here absolute disaster for them uh from from that perspective in the first half wasn’t good enough we’ve described it halftime uh but this this would be a

Great result for mwell Georgie Jane getting their claim in the main stand as he comes back around to The motherb Dugout he’s been a another good uh signing on Lo from Blackburn and he had a good game this afternoon as Johnston tries to step away there from spittle inside his

Own half and then feeds it forward for Yang uh still looking for the fourth officials board which hasn’t gone up yet despite the fact that we’re beyond the 90 minutes 6 minutes for mother to hold on 6 minutes for Celtic to try and find a winner given the way the game has gone

You’d have to say that is the way things are going as Palmer finds Johnson at the edge of the penalty Alia Celtic come forward now out to Yang on the right hand side Celtic looking to create Johnston to the by line stands up to the back poses a little nudge at the back

Post there and it’s header into the arms of Liam kayy Palma just nudg Steven O’Donnell to get the header in I’m not sure if had that gone into the back of the net necessarily stood uh but in any case it was right into the arms of Liam

Kelly as we enter injury time and it’s still mother one Celtic one it’s pure defendant so I’ve got to say by Blair SP and and Paul mcin because Alistar Johnson doesn’t that Paul M has to detach himself and go with him him and Blair SP stand still and allow Johnson

To free cross so once again mother will given the the hus the Celtic forward come mother B down the right hand side looking to create a rare threat themselves in this second period they had plenty of opportunity and plenty of attacking play in the first half but uh

Precious little in this second period as they’re Clinging On Now for dear life and a point as Taylor comes forward having set up The Equalizer can he do something similar for a winner it’s Palma now taking over Midway inside the mother wall half a minute and a half

Going to stoppage time as Johnston picks up looking to feed Ida mother wo hack it clear and that’s all they’re content to do at the moment it doesn’t matter where it goes really as Carter Vickers retrieves it and plays it infield to Liam scales now Bernardo back to scales inside the center

Circle scales wonders what to do and then plays it back to the left hand side for Bernardo forward for Taylor Taylor challenged there by Nicholson Willie colum says that’s fine waves Greg Taylor up as Celtic were’re looking for the free kick and mother will just launch it downfield Stuart kwell so animated at

The edge of his technical area there urging his side on for a point here it would be the second time in two meetings that they’ taking a point off Celtic having got one at Celtic Park the late Joba equalizer here scales trying to make sure that Celtic all claim all

Three Taylor into the penalty area macabi with the header clear at the edge of the Box only as far as pal on the left hand side up against odono onto the right foot scales goes Taylor goes in the overlap but he tries to feed it in himself half cleared O’Reilly picks up

Inside the penalty area can’t find a teammate mother again will just thump up towards Theo beer what can he make of this it’s over him it’s over scales who gets it to Carter Vickers and his back the scales once more three minutes of stopping time left still 1-1 Taylor

Picks up for Celtic it’s all Celtic just at the moment I’m just looking at and say put it in you know they scored a goal from from exactly what that type of cross Taylor’s picking the ball up in that left hand set just whop it in there

For Adam Ida to go and attack here’s Yang he’s found Johnson Johnson for go Adam has won it surely for Celtic in stoppage time late heartbreak again for mother wall against Celtic for Park Johnston for idah eah at the Double mother w w Celtic to just put it in

There and the man will get on the end of it and that was a really well taken goal you just dist stab of the ball put it into the right position across that six-yard box and there he was just to get his foot to it to put it past Liam

Kelly if you don’t engage with players and you stand off and you allow them to pass around about you put free crosses into the box you’re going to be on the back foot you’re going to give away opportunities and when you get quality players in the final third of the pitch

They’re going to find Space they’re going to have that touch and he does he’s been the difference in the second half he’s been a real match winner for them everything about his play with ARA has changed the whole dynamic of the game for celic two great goals and a

Huge three point it looks like well that could be absolutely massive in the final shakeup two goals from adame to to turn this game on its head and although they came back with a leveler late at Celtic Park they would be asking an awful lot for mble to do

Likewise again as they now Trail by two goals to one and Adam Eda is the man who has made a massive difference in this second half with a double again just as he did at Easter Road on that occasion it was a late one to win it from the

Penalty spot this time he knocked in from Johnston’s cross and here he comes again right hand side and he’ll just take this to the corner flag and look to kill some time a minute left of stopp his time bit more perhaps to be added on as a result of that goal and

Celtic I think I have a corner down that right hand side if not it’s a throw in very near the corner flag it’s a throw in I believe and uh the Celtic fans behind that goal with renewed belief you’d have to say yeah after that goal yeah and Def finding moments in any

Season when you when you sort of you don’t look as if you’re going to win it and then you get that goal lateer on but listen there’s a little couple of minutes we’ve seen it in the past here but M will haven’t been up in Celtic’s half in the second half they really

Struggled they can’t get up at all they can’t get hold of the ball when they do they’re just throwing it Forward they put so much into the first half that they haven’t had the Renewed Energy in the second half but you got to say overall this wouldn’t be good enough

Cel’s performance has to be better if they want to go on and win the league yes they’ll get a big three points but over all the performance hasn’t been what it should be here’s Palmer picking up as Celtic L to make sure of the victory it’s O’Reilly feeding Yang Yang

Into the box and it’s another one Luis Palmer takes the shirt off in celebration as Celtic celebrate wrapping up the points at the death Yang feeding Luis Palmer the back po to make sure of the victory it adds a little bit of gloss to the score

Line and Celtic will go away with all three points and move back to within two of Rangers at the top it’s mother will one Celtic three yeah well worked goal again nobody picking him up at the back post and uh simple for Palma I don’t know what what he’s celebrating there on

His on his chest he’s only on the pitch and he couldn’t have missed that one surely it’s good football again mother will committing men forward the lead themselves open and it’s just a simple ball across the goal Palma I think scored here in the game earlier in the

Season and he’s rounded off a big three points for Cela much needed three points well they’ve been renowned over the years for crucial late goal Celtic and Luis Palmer’s goal just uh adding a bit of shine to it but Adam’s goals have certainly been the ones that

Have been pivotal in this game was a v check on Luis Palmer’s goal I think probably for a potential offside didn’t quite catch what the announcer said there but uh may or may not turn out to be 3-1 which she wait the check here from Gavin Duncan in

The VAR office willly call him waiting for the information to be relayed to him uh mother will will hope that it’s chopped off and give them an opportunity to go up the part one last time perhaps and try and grabb an equalizer although that may well be a forlorn

Hope still we await the decision Willie colum points to the center spot Luis Palma has his ninth goal of the Season sixth in the league um we’re underway again and for all mother wolves efforts particularly in that first half when they were tremendous and well worthy of the halftime lead Celtics response pack

You’d have to say uh has been one that was required if they are to be champions again again yeah there was a couple of subtle changes obviously big changes bringing Adam Ida onto the pitch and he’s been very very good held the ball up got his goals uh and it’s a big big

Three points for Celtic F time at for Park and Celtic have come back from a goal down at halime to turn it around and claim a massive Victory and their fans the response from them suggests they believe they are still very much in the title race just two points again

Behind Rangers with 11 games to play it was all about Adam Ida introduced at halftime for kyogo with Celtic trailing to Blair sprittles fabulous late first half strike either came on to head Celtic level from Greg Taylor’s cross early in the second half after that it was all

Celtic pressure as they looked for the winner and eventually 4 minutes into injury time it came again it was EA this time latching onto alist Johnson’s ball into the box from the right hand side to knock past Liam Kelly and secure the victory Luis Palmer adding a third even

Deeper into stoppage time but by then mother will wear a beaten side it put so much into it but take nothing from it at for park it finishes mother W one Celtic 3