There have been plenty of hints on why the Hoops are underperforming and one pundit has highlighted another two
Celtic’s wingers have come in for a bit of criticism lately and Andy Halliday insists their tendency to cut inner would not go well with the Hoops.
The champions have allowed Rangers to take the initiative in Premiership title race with the weekend’s draw with Kilmarnock their modern day dropped factors and even in some of the other video games they’ve won, performances have been questioned. Wide guys have been a huge part of the narrative with followers feeling there is a actual lack of creativity or intent to take full-backs on.
Halliday has identified Luis Palma and January signing Nicolas Kuhn as two gamers whose fashion isn’t always always a right match for when Celtic play groups who want to sit down in and make matters compact in the middle of the pitch. Palma is a right-footer enjoying on the left often with Kuhn the other way around.
The Motherwell loanee informed Radio Clyde’s Superscoreboard: “We’ve seen Celtic’s pinnacle stage this 12 months and it is been very good. I don’t suppose we’ve viewed it enough. In phrases of the wingers, some thing that interests me is that all and sundry felt Celtic had been going to signal that pacey, direct winger who was going to come into the crew right away.
“But when I watch Nicolas Kuhn, he’s usually looking to waft internal the pitch and when he’s taking humans on he is wanting to force internal the pitch. But when teams are so compact, like Celtic face quite often, he’s riding into bodies.
“Whereas you seem at remaining season when it was Maeda or Jota, their job was to continue to be excessive and huge on the touchline. When they get the ball, be effective and go forward.
“But Nicolas Kuhn needs to force inner the pitch and is constantly searching for one-twos but he is going into bodies. And that’s in reality where Kilmarnock’s goal comes from. They lose the ball and certainly I think his reaction to lose the ball is virtually poor. And within 10 seconds they lose the equaliser.
“Palma is any other one that needs to go with the flow internal the pitch on his enhanced proper foot and again enclosing that space.”
Halliday sees Reo Hatate’s absence as another are the place Celtic are majorly hamstrung as the Japanese midfielder is anyone who can set the tempo when required.
He added: “I don’t think it is talked about enough in video games like the weekend against Kilmarnock when it is a bit slow and they need tempo increased, I suppose the lack of Reo Hatate in the Celtic facet is so important.
“That industry, that pace, that electricity and I assume in games like that you comprehend how much they simply leave out him.”
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