Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers applauds the fans at the end of the UEFA Champions League, Group E match at Celtic Park, Glasgow. Picture date: Wednesday December 13, 2023.
Celtic captain, Callum McGregor, has delivered an honest assessment of how he viewed his team’s defeat to Hearts yesterday.
McGregor hasn’t experienced many lows at Celtic but he has labelled yesterday’s loss to the capital club as one of the hardest days of his trophy-laden Hoops career.
McGregor said [Daily Record], “We start the season well and we probably go seven, eight points clear. Everyone thinks the league’s wrapped up – but look where we’re sitting now.
“So, it tells you that it’s difficult and it’s not easy. And there’s bits in a season where you have to deal with disappointment and you have to deal with it quickly before it starts to fester.
“So I sit here in what’s probably one of the hardest days of my career as a Celtic player to come off and get beat here. That always hurts.
“It’s not happened to me too many times here. So, we will fix it.”
Can Callum McGregor fix Celtic’s ills?
Let’s hope McGregor can fix it because, on the evidence of the last three domestic fixtures, there is no evidence to support that.
There was the insipid draw to Motherwell which was followed up with an uninspiring win at St Johnstone which took a rollicking from Rodgers to spark the players into life.
And if the second-half collapse to Kilmarnock wasn’t bad enough, the 90-minute horror show against Hearts seems the be the last straw for a frustrated Celtic support.
This Celtic team look passive and well off the pace. The slow and patient buildup play that Rodgers insists on goes against the very fabric of what this team was built to do by Ange Postecoglou.
McGregor has one more game to fix whatever is broken at Celtic Park because if they fall to another defeat against Rangers at the end of the month, there will be no excuses accepted by the Hoops supporters.
In other news, Brendan Rodgers bizarrely says one Celtic player was ‘outstanding’ in loss vs Hearts
