{"id":125913,"date":"2025-11-07T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125913\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:36:07","slug":"chris-suttons-sobering-warning-to-celtic-and-martin-oneill-after-fc-midtjylland-humbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125913\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sutton&#8217;s &#8216;sobering&#8217; warning to Celtic and Martin O&#8217;Neill after FC Midtjylland humbling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris Sutton has reacted to Celtic\u2019s \u2018sobering\u2019 defeat to FC Midtjylland in the Europa League with a warning to Martin O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtic hero was clearly unhappy with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/match\/celtic-player-ratings-as-three-3-10-stars-sum-up-eight-minute-europa-league-collapse-vs-fc-midtjylland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoops\u2019 poor Europa League performance<\/a> as the Danish team outplayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/martin-oneill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O\u2019Neill\u2019s<\/a> side for much of the 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Bhoys suffered a shocking eight-minute spell where Celtic shipped three goals to allow Midtjylland to retain their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/europa-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europa League<\/a> top spot with ease.<\/p>\n<p>And reacting to how Celtic meekly lost in Denmark, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/chris-sutton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Sutton<\/a> has sent a message to the Parkhead club and his old gaffer over the defeat to the Danes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2244875221-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"FBL-EUR-C3-MIDTJYLLAND-CELTIC\" \/>Photo by BO AMSTRUP\/Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty ImagesSutton warns Martin O\u2019Neill not to \u2018damage his legacy\u2019 at Celtic after Europa League loss<\/p>\n<p>Sutton is always vocal about issues regarding Celtic and after watching the Midtjylland defeat, the former Hoops striker sent his old club a warning.<\/p>\n<p>Sutton said on X, \u201cSobering night for Celtic\u2026 no great surprise. Midtjylland better in every department. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat to see MON return and the wins against Falkirk and Rangers but I\u2019d hate to see MON stay on too long and damage his legacy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t on him at all. New manager needed in place asap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sobering night for Celtic\u2026 no great surprise. Midtjylland better in every department. Great to see MON return and the wins against Falkirk and Rangers but I\u2019d hate to see MON stay on too long and damage his legacy. This isn\u2019t on him at all. New manager needed in place asap\ud83c\udf40<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chris_sutton73\/status\/1986519209287860589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 6, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> Martin O\u2019Neill says Celtic\u2019s journey in the Europa League is \u2018not over\u2019<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill was upbeat despite Celtic\u2019s latest Europa League defeat as the interim Hoops boss declared the Bhoys were not out of the competition just yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtic manager said, \u201cI suppose that we probably always thought this year that ten points would probably be enough [to qualify].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not out of it. That\u2019s a big lesson for us tonight to know what it takes to be a really decent European team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMidtjylland have shown that and they have good experience in the side, they have really good players and they have that thing that is really necessary, physicality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Sutton has reacted to Celtic\u2019s \u2018sobering\u2019 defeat to FC Midtjylland in the Europa League with a warning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19045,15011,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-125913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-chris-sutton","9":"tag-europa-league","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}