{"id":902459,"date":"2026-11-01T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902459\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:48:09","slug":"are-celtic-club-in-regression-amid-run-of-six-defeats-in-10-pundits-have-their-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902459\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Celtic club in regression amid run of six defeats in 10? Pundits have their say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Europe aside, Celtic&#8217;s season had been rattling along relatively well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had bounced back from League Cup and league losses to Rangers with a solid win at Motherwell, a resounding 7-1 victory at home to last season&#8217;s runners-up Hearts, and a hard-fought 2-1 win from behind at Hibernian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wednesday&#8217;s 2-2 draw with Dundee United turned out to be a missed opportunity to extend their lead at the top and they now face the prospect of Rangers and, indeed, Hearts getting closer should they win their games in hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Besiktas in the Europa League are next up, a home game Celtic really need to win to stand any chance of progress in that competition after starting with three defeats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner said of O&#8217;Neill on BBC Radio Scotland that it&#8217;s been &#8220;a brilliant weekend for Rangers&#8221;, who won their League Cup semi-final with Aberdeen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re in the cup final and Celtic getting beat allows them, when they play their game, their extra game, to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That then puts huge pressure on to Celtic with the European game coming up now in midweek also. That is going to be tough for them to bounce back from this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe aside, Celtic&#8217;s season had been rattling along relatively well. They had bounced back from League Cup and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-902459","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\/902459","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=902459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}