As Nancy closes in on the Celtic job<\/a>, Go Radio provided the Celtic Park<\/a> faithful with an insight into how he fared when he came up against Messi and his Inter Miami side in June.<\/p>\n Richard Foster shared that he was in Miami in June to witness Nancy\u2019s<\/a> crew get slapped 5-1, and Messi expose one of the Frenchman\u2019s high-risk tactics. <\/p>\n Celtic<\/a> fans would have done their homework on their new possible coach and learned the expansive style he likes to play in a three-at-the-back formation. <\/p>\n Foster told the Hoops supporters, \u2018wait till you see how high the (defensive) line is\u2019, including how it was exposed by Messi, who netted a brace and supplied two assists in a thumping 5-1 win. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen we went to Miami over the summer,\u201d shared Foster. \u201cWe watched Inter Miami play against the Columbus Crew.<\/p>\n \u201cWait till you see how high the line is. I would caveat that with Busquets and Messi just kept chipping the ball to each other. I think Messi scored two that game. I think he set up two. <\/p>\n \u201cEvery time they squeezed up. They just dinked the ball over you. Time your run from midfield, and they were in every single time. <\/p>\n \u201cNow, he\u2019s a genius, and Busquets isn\u2019t bad either. But I am just saying, the way he likes to play. It probably suits Celtic, because they are going to have to have most of the ball and they are going to be high up the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n Injury-hit Celtic dealing with Nancy\u2019s high line <\/p>\n Celtic have a host of injuries<\/a> right now, including a lack of balance and depth at the back, especially if Nancy wants to play three at the back<\/a>. <\/p>\n As of this moment, Foster thinks Celtic\u2019s backline, if told to play that high up the pitch, and without their main starting players, would \u2018struggle\u2019 to deal with Nancy\u2019s high-risk strategy. <\/p>\n \u201cBut I don\u2019t think, at the moment, Celtic have the quality or the depth, because of the injuries, to be forcing teams back and keeping that high line,\u201d added Foster. <\/p>\n \u201cYou keep flipping the ball behind the Celtic defender, and I think they would struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilfried Nancy hasn\u2019t been coaching in a highly thought-of league, but that doesn\u2019t mean the soon-to-be Celtic manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2713,90908,101,56,54,55,106896],"class_list":{"0":"post-268723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-lionel-messi","10":"tag-richard-foster","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wilfried-nancy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wilfried](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2232036480-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Kirk Irwin\/Getty ImagesInter Miami\u2019s Lionel Messi against Celtic\u2019s manager target Wilfried Nancy<\/p>\n