Originally Posted by
Eirambler
There's no way he sacrifices that game for Milan, absolutely no chance. For me Lennon was showing, once again, that he has no gameplan whatsoever beyond getting as many of his better players on the pitch as often as possible. To me it looked like once he couldn't pick his best 11 or close to it he had no idea what to do - his demeanour throughout the game was of someone who had given up on it as soon as the first goal went in.
He never rotates the team, partly because he doesn't have faith in the squad players but also because he doesn't know how to develop or improve them or fit them in to any kind of coherent game plan. Basically for him it's just a case of getting the 11 best players on the pitch week after week with the same two or three subs and hoping they can produce enough individual moments to win games and titles. He can get away with this when Celtic are unchallenged in the league, as they have been up to now, it was a similar story when he managed Hibs in the division below, they were miles better than everyone else that season so it was easy. However, with Hibs and also Bolton, he has shown that once he comes up against teams of similar abilities he cannot adapt - Bolton were relegated and he had Hibs, with the fourth biggest budget in the league that season down in eighth in the table by the time they removed him.
Basically there's no bigger picture here, he's just a crap manager.