I Love Celtic

As the international program schedule comes to a close Celtic stars had a busy day on Tuesday, 12th September 2023. Break for the season arrived, especially in time for those who had just tasted victory at a rival’s home ground. Indeed, when Tuesday matches arrived many were still out, recovering from injuries. Hence, most would have been happy if the respite came by, allowing the team to relax for a few weeks.

Celtic are on an impressive win streak in the Scottish League Championship. The team has won 10 out of 13 games and is currently in the first place. Celtic's recent success comes at a time when they were expected to struggle due to their lack of European football this season, but instead, they have managed to keep pace with the rest of Europe's elite. Since their victory against Rangers last weekend, Celtic have won by a combined score of 19-4.

But even more impressively, no team has managed to beat them twice in succession since August 20th, which is impressive given that there have been over 1000 matches played since then. The team is playing very well and they are scoring goals at every match. Celtic has won most of their matches this season and they are leading the league table with a seven-point gap over second-placed Hibernian.

According to Pavel Kucherov, Virgil van Dijk, the current Liverpool defender turned down the opportunity to join Metalist Kharkiv, the Ukrainian outfit in favor of Celtic 10 years ago.

Kucherov, the Dutch international, added that he chose Celtic since he wanted to be close to the Premier League. Since Van Dijk is going to leave Celtic for Southampton, before becoming the £75 million record of Liverpool signing only a few seasons later, the 31-year-old will look back on the career-defining decision he made in 2013 with a sensible justification.

Aaron Mooy, a celebrated Celtic midfielder, was hosted at a Glasgow restaurant recently. The restaurant staff said that they were delighted to host their favorite Celtic star, especially after the semi-final win that Merchant City had. Aaron came in for lunch at Santa Lucia, an Italian restaurant on Sunday, with his family.

Of course, Aaron is an Australian who is currently playing for the Celtics. Since they recently won the Merchant City restaurant staff, were eager to link the victory with hosting the star at their restaurant.

 

Indeed, Glasgow and the rest of Scotland are looking forward to the Viaplay Cup finals. This will now be between the Celtics and the Rangers. Final ticket prices have been confirmed as well. The Rangers meet Celtics at the Hampden. They will face the finals which will take place on February 26th. The game will kick off at 3 pm at Hampden, located on the south side of Glasgow city.

The Celtic team is planning to sign on Tomoki Iwata, a Japan international player, who will then join from the Yokohama F Marinos team. Tomoki is a 25-year-old player who is known to play in midfield or defense positions. He made a mark for himself when he won the title of Most Valued Player award for the J League in the last playing season.

He has also shown several excellent performances on the field. Hence, it is of no surprise that Ange Postecoglou, the current Celtic manager, is eager to sign him on again.

On-loan Celtic goalkeeper Conor Hazard was awarded the HJK Helsinki supporters player of the year as his side lifted the league title in Finland this weekend. It has been a top season for the Northern Ireland international, who helped his side to a sixth league title in the past seven years. Hazard played his final league game of the campaign on Sunday evening as HJK suffered a 1-0 defeat to KuPS. However, the current Finnish champions had already delivered the title the previous week and were instead in celebration mode following the end of the match.

Not only did the 24-year-old shot-stopper celebrate his team’s success, but he was also awarded his own personal award following the match. Hazard was awarded the player of the year by HJK Helsinki’s official supporter’s association for his contributions to the side’s title success. Before the Finnish Champions season is officially complete, Hazard has a few more games as a loan player as they play out their final two UEFA Europa League matches against AS Roma and Real Betis across the next few weeks.

Holders Celtic suffered their first defeat in almost a year in the Scottish Premiership after they were surprisingly beaten by home team St. Mirren on Sunday. Celtic had not lost for 364 days before they took on St. Mirren last weekend. Ahead of the game, manager Ange Postecoglou and his players were heavy favourites to take the three points on offer. However, they failed to live up to that status after the game ended in defeat. The defending champions were handed a 2-0 defeat by their hosts.

St. Mirren produced their best performance of the season to see off Celtic thanks to a goal in each half. Scottish star Mark O’Hara gave St. Mirren the lead with two minutes left to play in the first half before English midfielder Jonah Ayungawrapped up the win for the home team in the second half. Ayunga scored eight minutes into the second half to seal the win for St. Mirren.

Spanish champions Real Madrid have started the defence of their UEFA Champions League (UCL) title successfully following their 3-0 away win over Celtic who are back in the group stage of the competition for the first time in five seasons.

Real Madrid are the reigning European champions after they won the Champions League title last season. The Carlo Ancelotti-led side beat Premier League heavyweights Liverpool by a lone goal in the final to win the competition last season thanks to the second half strike from Brazilian attacker Vinicius Junior.

Scottish champions Celtic are eyeing a fourth successive win at the start of the new Premiership season ahead of their home game with Hearts this weekend. Celtic are the team to beat in the Scottish top flight this season and they have started the season well with three wins from three games. The Ange Postecoglou-led team came make it four wins from four games if they beat Hearts at home when the two sides face each other for the first this season. The two teams will play each other for the first time this season on Sunday.

Ange Postecoglou has done a very good job since he was appointed the new Celtic manager last summer. In his first season, he led Celtic to reclaim the Scottish Premiership title from the hands of Rangers.

Celtic almost certainly rounded off their midfield options for the foreseeable on Tuesday with the signing of Australia internationalist Aaron Mooy. The former St Mirren midfielder put pen to paper on a two-year deal to reunite with his former national team manager Ange Postecoglou. The move was welcomed by current Socceroos boss Graham Arnold, with Mooy now likely to see playing time ahead of the Qatar World Cup later this year. However, one player who could find more game time difficult because of the Aussie’s arrival is James McCarthy.

The former Hamilton midfielder ended years of speculation linking him with Celtic and finally moved back to Scotland from Crystal Palace last summer, but found opportunities limited, even with Celtic’s lack of midfield depth in the first half of the season. The former Ireland international made only six starts and 16 substitute appearances, rarely if ever looking capable of deputising for Callum McGregor when called upon.