Motherwell v Celtic - Scottish Premiership, Saturday 6th December, 12.45, SkySports1

I've been praising players such as Johansen and Bitton constantly.

In terms of the teams performances, I'm saying what I'm seeing. Aye, we're winning and that's great but our performances, by and large, have been poor.

Don't see what's wrong about that.

 

We could have scored enough goals to win three or four individual games today, but it was just one of those occasions where nothing went for us, besides the goal obviously.

The main thing is that we are winning. It would be nice if we could convert more of our chances and put teams to bed early, but as long as we're getting points on the board and building a lead at the top of the table, that's all that really counts.

 

someone needs to remind van dijk he is a centre half first and fore most, was criminal the space they were getting in the last ten mins, johanson in my opinion man of the match, one of those days infront of goal, but in game play terms, we were on a different level for 80 mins.

 

I agree, there's plenty to look forward to this season. Although the part about performances improving each week I'm not sure about. Today's performance was the best in a long time for the most part, but the past few weeks we have been much of a muchness.

I know that winning is what counts at the end of the day but it's getting frustrating not seeing the team being able to finish off the other team every week.

 

Hi guys.i don't get involved much on here but I have just watched the game.i was working so recorded it.andy walker after the game saying ronny is over doing it and he's taking it too far with the celebrations! * that wee * btw, how can a manager/coach showing passion after a win be a bad thing?he sounded very much like a hun just looking for a reason to be negative about our team and manager. * him to *,our team are playing good positive football and we're getting better and better and ronny must be delighted with that so of course he has the right to show it to the fans. * walker he can * off ti * and keep his negativeness away from our club. Supposed to be a Tim? Could've fooled me.*

 

Negativity's a disease in Scotland mate.

Make friends with the mute button. It's the path to happiness.

 

I think we are now beginning to see the kind of football that we expected to see when Deila arrived. Today was a joy to watch at times. The only thing missing was a few more goals. On a different day it genuinely could have been 7 or 8. Johansen was absolutely fantastic. He is a better option than Commons in the number 10 role for me. His energy, and passing is much superior to Commons. We need to start killing teams off though. We were almost punished on Wednesday for not putting the game to bed, and it was the same today. A lot to be happy about today though.

 

Great post agree 100%,I do think the players also took time to buy into Ronny's thinking aswell

 

This game didn't matter ziltch for us today anyway, according to Tam Cowan

We could win the treble and we still wouldn't get any credit in this country.

Hun * everywhere.

 

We should have wrecked the * place gave him something to write about the fat *

 

Come on mate, any other day we would of beaten them by at-least four.

We played some great football, lost the plot a bit when they went down to ten, but it's not as if we are playing horribly and just scraping through.

 

How did Forrest play?

 

Couldn't really fault him to be fair, but not at his best.

 

Getting closer..

 

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A wins a win. Could have been 10-1 today. I wonder if that diving Motherweller will incur even a fraction of the * Guidetti got for his slip against the farts? Can't see it.

 

Aye we played some really nice stuff and perhaps on another day we would have humped them.

It's the fact that this is the second game in a row, and at least the third match this season, where we have absolutely dominated the opponents but missed sitter after sitter. It cost us earlier in the season against Hamilton.

Just really frustrating.

 

First half we were impressive, in particular until the half an hour mark. Should have been up 3-0 after 15 minutes. Our pressing was superb as was our use of the ball. The quality of finishing was far from superb.

At the start of the 2nd half we seemed a bit of the pace,everything we done well in the 1st half wasn't at the same level. We got ourselves back on top eventually and we began to reproduce the link-up play akin to the 1st half. Unfortunately our finishing let us down yet again and some poor decision making with the final ball. As always we give a team one chance and fortunately they matched our quality of finishing.

We dominated for the majority and finishing aside couldn't really fault players display. Johansen led the pressing game and appeared all over the field. Izzy was superb going forward and defensively. Brown and Biton controlled the midfield,Forrest and Stokes were a threat. Guidetti lead the line well and linked the play with Johansen and Forrest in particular. His only finish of note was denied by incompetency of the official.

Speaking of officials, the far side linesman needs a good boot up the *. The offside, missed the hand ball from Angol and a blatant foul from behind by McManus early on. All fairly easy decisions missed by the baldy *!! Mr Murray yet again allows Lasley to kick everything that moves and then booked Brown when he never made contacted with his opponent.

Finally, Neil McCann. Took him four replays to admit what he didn't want to say when the boy got booked at the end. Still couldn't bring himself to be as vitriolic about the offender than he was in previous weeks.