Ah in fairness tets, let's not start talking up unbeaten seasons in the Scottish Third Tier as if it makes them an impressive team. Conor Sammon scored twice against them in the last game of last season for example.
For Idah, it's two goals at a time they were needed (which is good) against a side who'd certainly be English fourth tier at best; maybe even non-league (which is worth pointing out).
And if it helps him develop a goalscoring habit, then I'm fine with him scoring against sides like Falkirk when the chips are down.
We have a lovely habit of trying to justify every decent performance. We all know that football throws up strange cup results and lower division teams can beat better ones. That's a relatively good lower division Scottish team who Celtic were in a difficult spot against until Idah got the goals. He has a nice habit of getting some timely important goals since he went there last season. It ok to enjoy and not have the constant navel gazing of trying to assess just how much it matters cos of the standard of the opposition.
Its really not that complicated!!!
I think it's perfectly reasonable to note the opposition. It's a fairly big factor like.
The point here isn't Falkirk lads, they're weak by comparison and he'd need to be scoring against them. The point is how absolutely low & lousy it was to pop up here today with that contribution while ignoring the lads goal in the CL in midweek.
My comment was Falkirk related. I agree it's better to score against Falkirk than not score against Falkirk.
And fair play to Adam for CL goal, despite playing just 14 minutes.
But, again, while scoring against Slovan Bratislava is infinitely better than not scoring against Slovan Bratislava, it was hardly seismic given Slovan are 45 places behind Celtic in EUFA's ten-year club rankings and Slovakia is seven adrift of Scotland in the associations list.
Sadly, despite Falkirk's burgeoning status as the raging bull of SPFL, they fail to get a ranking. Now that's low and lousy.
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I think the two goals were more impressive when looked at in the context of the situation Celtic were in than in terms of the opposition. A team that's winning away from home against much stronger opposition are going to pack the defence and be hard to break down. He managed it twice in two minutes to turn the game around. The second goal in particular was impressive. I would actually rank those higher than the Champions League goal given that the CL game was already won when he scored.
As always the impressive thing about scoring goals for Celtic isn't the standard of opposition you're scoring against (usually weak), it's being able to take the pressure and responsibility of being in a team and in front of a crowd where you're expected to score, and being able to deliver the expectations.
FWIW, this blogger reckons Falkirk gave Celtic their toughest game this season
https://anordinarybhoy.wordpress.com...-the-big-guns/
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