{"id":219815,"date":"2025-12-31T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219815\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:02:12","slug":"celtic-are-wilfried-nancys-uncomfortable-side-ready-for-old-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219815\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic: Are Wilfried Nancy’s ‘uncomfortable’ side ready for Old Firm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the sample size is small, Nancy must have arrived at Fir Park with the biggest spring in his step to date as Celtic boss.<\/p>\n

Leaving Livingston with three points after a ridiculous game on Saturday<\/a>, in the wake of victory over Aberdeen, had quietened down the early clamour for his exit. <\/p>\n

Pre-match, Nancy stressed he was “seeing improvements” all the time.<\/p>\n

Met with a raised eyebrow then, heads would have been shaking at such a statement after Celtic were schooled by a magnificent Motherwell, who were expertly guided by Jens Berthel Askou.<\/p>\n

The Motherwell manager predicted on Sportsound pre-match it would be “a great game of football, dynamic, intense and high-tempo at times”.<\/p>\n

Only the home side lived up to those expectations as they overpowered their visitors in every department.<\/p>\n

“Celtic want to play the way Motherwell did,” former Rangers defender Alan Hutton said on Premier Sports following the Lanarkshire side’s first win over Celtic in 35 attempts.<\/p>\n

“Celtic are second best, chasing shadows, schooled. On the park and off it,” agreed ex-Scotland midfielder Michael Stewart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the sample size is small, Nancy must have arrived at Fir Park with the biggest spring in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-219815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219815","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=219815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}