Michael Stewart has shared something alarming that he noticed about Celtic twenty minutes before the full-time whistle blew against Kilmarnock today.
The outspoken BBC pundit believes Celtic have lost their intimidation factor this season under Brendan Rodgers but that wasn’t the scary part.
The former Hearts and Hibs midfielder also said that he saw the team lacking ideas and running out of energy with well over a quarter of the match to go.
Stewart said [BBC Radio Scotland], “Well, with 20 minutes to go, I was just saying to the guys there was something in this for Kilmarnock and I think everybody that was watching the game got that sense as well.
“Celtic, in the end, looked like they were the away side, they looked dead on their feet and they were hanging on.
“And credit to Kilmarnock because I think they got the sense of that as well.
“And for all the advantages that Celtic have in terms of the quality in their squad, the huge support that they have behind them and that feeds through to the opposition at times in terms that it can be intimidating.
“It very quickly starts to crumble when the opposition gets a sense that things are not going well. And I think that’s where Celtic find themselves at the moment.”
Celtic have lost their relentlessness
This is extremely worrying for the Celtic supporters. Prior to this season, the fans watched a Celtic side under Ange Postecoglou that was absolutely relentless at Parkhead.
The ‘We Never Stop’ mantra rang true in every game that was played under Postecoglou and you could always rely on the team to find it in themselves to dig in and find a winner when all looked lost.
Under Rodgers, we are just not seeing that and for Stewart to say that the team looked dead on their feet with 20 minutes to go, just what exactly is going on in training.
After another pitiful result, the Celtic fans leave Paradise with more questions than answers and right now the only questions that are being asked are by the opposition and Brendan Rodgers’s team just can seem to come up with the right answers.
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