WE CAN HAVE FEW COMPLAINTS

After the excitement of last week’s final at Hampden the Celtic support travelled with plenty of confidence to Tannadice early yesterday morning for the SPFL encounter with Dundee United. They backed the bhoys all the way during the 96 minutes.

Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin’s tactics were to park the bus and frustrate Celtic and they did just that. Celtic finishing let them down on the day when they had 17 shots with only 3 on target and travelled back to Glasgow with a share of the points. Goodwin will be much happier than Brendan Rodgers.

Celtic remain 9 points clear of the rangers who over took from Aberdeen in second place after Hibs beat the Dons yesterday and our city rivals took maximum points at Ibrox with a 1-0 win over Dundee.

Rodgers made five changes from the Cup Final starting 11. His hand was forced with a number of players sidelined because of injury and illness including a rare start for Stephen Welsh.

Celtic are still unbeaten domestically this season and have only lost one game in Europe against Dortmund. So we can have few complaints as we sit down to some Turkey and Brussel sprouts on Christmas day ahead of the visit of Motherwell to Celtic Park the following day.

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast