Celtic got back to winning ways, with a 2-1 victory at Dens Park. After dominating the 1st half and cruising to 2-0 early in the 2nd, Celtic were happy to hear the final whistle to secure 29 undefeated league games. The tale of the game, by numbers.
Celtic 1 The Rangers 1, by numbers
The Rogic Effect
The Power of 10 – a Recap In the last article, I considered the impact of the players who have played the “Number 10” or Attacking Centre Midfield (AMC) role over the last 3 season (The Power of 10). Rogic is clearly the most effective goal scorer and held his own in defensive actions, whilst … [continue reading]
The Power of 10
The Celtic Number 10 Tom Rogic has been having the most productive season of his Celtic career, a career lacking linear progression and punctuated by spectacular goals, and injuries. He made the attacking midfield centre (AMC) position his own last season, taking over from Johansen who had been favoured by Deila. Commons has been the … [continue reading]
The 100 Club
Please read @footballcommune latest http://www.footballcommune.com/celtics-centurions/. This is shaping up to be as goal laden a season as some of the O’Neill years where 5 and 6 goal hammerings were common and 148 goals were racked up in 2000/01. You may be surprised how many Deila’s teams managed but please read George’s article for the detail. … [continue reading]
A Striking Success
Moussa Dembele joined Celtic in June 2016 after becoming the youngest player to score 15 English Championship goals for 20 years. Despite the best efforts by some to sell Dembele in the January transfer window, he remains at Celtic and took his debut season goal tally to 23 with a hat-trick in 24m of a … [continue reading]
Ineffable
Ambrose proposed loan move to Blackburn Rovers is being held up with work permit issues. With only 6 months left on his Celtic contract, the club are happy to see him leave on loan. It looks like the end of his Celtic career. Starting 2 games this season, he has not even made the bench … [continue reading]
Old Gord, New Tricks
Craig Gordon has been 1st choice Celtic keeper since the start of the Deila reign. He left his previous club Sunderland in 2012 and for 2 years battled knee injury without a contract. It is remarkable for a professional player in any position to have, effectively, a 2 year “career break” and come back to … [continue reading]
Celtic Loves You More Than You Will Know
Many Celtic supporters believe since Tommy Gemmell, we have been starved of quality left backs until Emilio Izaguirre signed from Motagua (Honduras) in August 2010, with the honourable exception of Tom Boyd (364 appearances over 11 years). And now we have Kieran Tierney, a Celtic boy who has grown up at the club. As Izaguirre … [continue reading]
Albion Rovers 0 Celtic 3, by numbers
A terribly exciting match for Celtic By Numbers (CBN) as several “records” were shattered. CBN has been recording match, player, opposition data since the start of the Deila era, and so “records” in CBN terms is a similar concept to Sky claiming English league football started in 1992. For my purposes “records” started at the … [continue reading]