{"id":891576,"date":"2026-10-23T04:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/891576\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:44:12","slug":"oneill-bemoans-marginal-moments-but-are-celtic-just-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/891576\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill bemoans marginal moments but are Celtic just not good enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre-back Liam Scales had by far the most touches of any Celtic player with 121, well ahead of left-back Kieran Tierney (79) and goalkeeper Sam Johnstone (69). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goalscorer Baur admitted they did not do enough to win and was at a loss when asked what needs to change. &#8220;How we played second half, last 30 minutes, we deserved it in the end,&#8221; Baur said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked if he knew why his team collapsed in such a manner, he responded: &#8220;I cannot tell you, sorry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It can happen that you get a goal, they can score too, good team &#8211; you should then get control back, hold the ball a bit longer to take the momentum away from them. You should break that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic did not get control back, did not break Celta&#8217;s momentum and ultimately paid the price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think Celtic are good enough, individually and collectively, to take on a team that&#8217;s eighth in La Liga,&#8221; former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner said on Sportsound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They moved the ball really well and Celtic couldn&#8217;t get close to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are not good enough at this level. Celtic are paying big money for some players because the fans are demanding it and then they come in and aren&#8217;t good enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their next European outing comes on 5 November as they host Besiktas, trying to reverse their continental woes. Whether they can or not is another matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre-back Liam Scales had by far the most touches of any Celtic player with 121, well ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-891576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}