Despite defeat to The Rangers, Jullien again stepped up in a big game. There was really no contest for Bhoy of the Match.
He wasn’t faultless of course, and with 2 defensive errors, he contributed to the 9 Celtic racked up to apply pressure on themselves.
Jullien was successful with 15 challenges and interceptions, which was 6 more than the next player Ajer. He also led the team with 12 recoveries and effected a team leading 8 clearances.
Seven times he won back possession in his own defensive third, two more than any other player.
In total his defensive actions resulted in possession being won back 9 times whilst only losing it once. Again, he led the team.
His 36 completed passes is average (89% completion), but he joint led the team by creating 2 chances and providing a secondary assisting pass. Being fouled for the penalty meant he led the team with xA of 0.976.
Not content with that he also led the side with 3 efforts on goal within the box. Two headers were cleared off the line by Davis.
His overall Celtic Attacking Threat (CAT) score of 7 was second only to Christie. He also led the team with Expected Scoring Contribution (expected goals + expected assists) of 1.235.
Jullien has been Bhoy of the Match in 5 games this season:
- A in Stockholm
- A vs The Rangers
- A to Rennes
- H to Lazio
- H to The Rangers
He shows remarkable consistency in big games and will be crucial for the run in.
Charles Anthony Andrew Aloysius Angus Douglas says
It’s useful to see the stats and it confirms the impression that Monsieur Jullien was able to respond to the challenges set by Morelos. I would argue that there was insufficient attention paid in the first instance to the goal-scoring threat from Rangers and that all of our play was too often reactive and not appropriately aggressive and positive.
Neither Jullien nor Ajer was at their best, but Jullien was able to challenge regularly – contrast this with the midweek performance vs St Mirren. He really switched off then…
He is an excellent acquisition, but there needs to be a challenge to his position from Simunovic or a.n.other and Ajer needs a break. It appears that the acclaimed Celtic Way does include a pattern of overplaying players e.g.
Tierney, McGregor, Brown , Forrest and more recently the two centre backs and Frimpong.
The outcome is that a tired performance does burst the bubble and lead to unrest amongst the supporters.
Gerry Boyle says
But but kris boyd said he is crap
Jim says
I like Christopher Jullien he is good Defender & gives his all for our Club.
The next time you are playing that dirty wee diving around cheat named
Morelos make sure you stamp on his toe after all I clocked the wee dirty
cheat doing it to Chris not once but twice in said match 29/12/2019
right in front of the so called waist of space 4th Official who did nor
said nothing about it not even to the so called match applience rep
what a sad state of affairs even the so called SFA officials are @ the
cheating aye its alright to make a ridiculous decision against Ryan
Christie however when the glove is on the other hand their silance
is deafning no good nor fair & also the match against Sevco last
August 2019 @ Ibrox that dirty wee cheating & diving Morelos
also stamped on Christopher Jullien’s foot .
Gerry Boyle Kris Boyd talks a load of crap a lot of the times his
remarks should be taken with a pinch of salt especially about
Celtic numpty Kris Boyd is always smiling on Sly TV when
Celtic have a bad day on the playing surfice (negative result)
& when Celtic have a good day on the playing surface
(a positive result) he starts moaning oh the opposition team
should have done this & that in the match however I don’t
hear him make the same comments when his beloved team
are playing aye Sevco he is a bias commentator bring back
Arthur Monford remember him? Even Gerry McKnee was
a better pundit than Kris Boyd