Celtic fans, we asked for your views after Thursday night’s 4-1 defeat at home to Stuttgart in the Europa League.
Here are the main points:
Paul: Martin O’Neill is an excellent manager but he’s no magician. He has done brilliantly wallpapering over cracks, motivating a team to get results in the league. Any Bundesliga team will cause us bother – especially one like Stuttgart. Terrible atmosphere at Celtic Park for a European fixture – that needs sorted as much as anything. Kasper Schmeichel had a bad night – so did plenty others around him. A good bench mark of where we really are.
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Biggar Bhoy: We were architects of our own demise. Schmeichel was certainly at fault for two of the goals, but it was a collective defensive failure for all four goals conceded. I thought the treatment of Schmeichel by a significant section of the home support was pretty shameful to be honest. If we’re to salvage anything from what’s been a dismal season so far, the fans need to back the team and get behind every single player.
Sally: Celtic supporters are not helping the team with these stupid, adolescent, and immature protests. The team certainly did not cover themselves in glory and the defence showed naivety against a good club. This is a proud club with a great history in Europe being given a football lesson.
Eck: Probably the worst Celtic team in 15 years. The goalkeeper is past it, too many mistakes and too slow. Auston Trusty and Liam Scales are liabilities, they are like frightened rabbits in the headlights and make too many mistakes. The board need to invest in better players instead of banking all the money.
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Jim: If we are honest we are just not at the level of European teams. Stuttgart, in my opinion, were only playing to about 75% of their potential. The eternal triangle of Trusty, Callum McGregor and Scales is so predictable and mostly ends up with a punt into touch from our own penalty area. Would have been nice to have a midfield. There was no creativity and we were well beaten by a better team who wanted to play forward football instead of our negativity and backward passing.
Stephen: Celtic should never prioritise league football over European football for me, that’s where we aspire to be, but this year they need a clear focus on the league so being out of Europe isn’t a bad thing.
Aaron: One word. Dross