The nature of Sunday’s League Cup defeat by Rangers brought significant scrutiny and criticism. A reaction was demanded and O’Neill made four changes.<\/p>\n
Initially, things looked good. James Forrest caused problems down the left and Ferencvaros looked on the back foot. But goals change games and this was a prime example with Celtic’s fragility brutally exposed.<\/p>\n
Against the run of play, Yusuf cut in from the left, whipped toward the back post, and Liam Scales could only help the ball into the far corner. It was a cheap concession.<\/p>\n
Baur, celebrating a first call-up for Germany, finished off a fine move to level on the stroke of half-time but, within seconds, Celtic had allowed Zachariassen to flick in amongst static defenders.<\/p>\n
O’Neill changed shape at the break. Kasper Hogh joined Duran up front. But almost immediately, Celtic were further behind.<\/p>\n
Scales’ loose pass was punished by Arzani, who produced an outstanding finish. A dream moment for him after an injury-ravaged Celtic spell.<\/p>\n
There was no route back into the game, Benjamin Nygren coming closest, and Celtic’s bad week got worse, with the prospect of Rangers at home on Sunday looming large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nature of Sunday’s League Cup defeat by Rangers brought significant scrutiny and criticism. A reaction was demanded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-899670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}