Their Defence Hasn’t Faced Two Celtic Strikers
This is something not many people realise; Gerrard has not faced two Celtic strikers before.
He is used to going up against our sole man up front, and so he knows exactly how to counter it.
One of the reasons I was looking forward to our game against them in the last campaign, the one Covid got called off, was that I wanted to see twin strikers against their defence.
I still believe the Ibrox defence is there for the taking, their decent run of games without conceding notwithstanding.
In Europe it’s a little more impressive; in the SPL it’s no more than we’ve been doing for the last few years ourselves. The media never talks about that.
Gerrard struggles against teams who get in his side’s face. You can see the panic in their ranks. The one thing that genuinely gives me hope is knowing that their defence wont’ handle it if we play football on the deck and try to pass our way through them.
They were built for defending high balls into the box.
It’s the standard SPL tactic against them, and it’s the reason they are so successful at the moment.
Any side which tries to play through that defence finds that it’s child’s play.
We can have a lot of luck if we play Eddie and Griffiths; Leigh in particular is due a goal against them … and Eddie raises his game when it counts.
If Lennon is brave I feel that we can get our rewards.