{"id":414656,"date":"2026-02-08T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414656\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:39:09","slug":"celtic-receive-a-masterclass-on-how-to-expose-sloppy-stuttgart-as-former-star-leaves-euro-rivals-reeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414656\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic receive a masterclass on how to expose ‘sloppy’ Stuttgart as former star leaves Euro rivals reeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hoops face the Bundesliga side later this month in the playoff round and suffered a Bundesliga blow\"Sebastian<\/p>\n

Sebastian Hoeness(Image: Silas Schueller\/DeFodi)<\/p>\n

Former Celtic midfielder Jackson Irvine gave his old club a masterclass about how to beat Europa League<\/a> opponents Stuttgart….despite playing on through the pain barrier.<\/p>\n

The Hoops face the Bundesliga side later this month in the playoff round<\/a>, but Stuttgart’s four-game winning streak came to a shock end in Hamburg as former Hibs, Kilmarnock and Ross County veteran Irvine captained his St Pauli side to a shock 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n

It was made all the more remarkable for the 32-year-old Australian international because he limped through the entire second half after picking up a foot injury and was only supposed to stay on for an hour.<\/p>\n

But he played the entirety of the game and was singled out for special praise by his manager Alexander Blessin, after admitting he was thrilled to beat Celtic’s European foes.<\/p>\n

He said: “That was certainly the toughest game of my career. We were missing so many players already so I didn’t want to add to that. If the manager didn’t take me off, I wasn’t going to substitute myself. We played Stuttgart earlier this season and they absolutely destroyed us, but we deserved to beat them there. It was a great win, especially given the run they had been on.”<\/p>\n

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(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

And Stuttgart boss Sebastian Hoeness admitted their penultimate game before facing Celtic<\/a> was a bad day in the office for them. He said: “It was a disappointing afternoon for us. There’s no other way to put it. It was a hard-fought, deserved victory for St. Pauli. The strain of the last few weeks was evident in the game. We were sloppy and unfocused. We created very little for a long time; it only improved towards the end. Ultimately, St. Pauli’s victory was entirely deserved; they played with a real siege mentality.”<\/p>\n

But Stuttgart ace Ermedin Demirovic insists the defeat was just a blip. He said: “Considering what we’ve achieved in recent weeks, we can be forgiven for a defeat. Even though we have to take some responsibility for the way we played, I see this game as a blip. And sometimes you just have to live with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hoops face the Bundesliga side later this month in the playoff round and suffered a Bundesliga blow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2817,2600,218,30905,8058,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-celtic-fc","tag-europa-league","tag-football","tag-martin-oneill","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414656","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=414656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}