“A European lesson for us in many aspects,” Celtic boss

Martin admits his side were taught another European lesson last night in the 3-1 Europa League defeat to Ferencvaros, but aims to go into the international break on a high by winning the Glasgow Derby on Sunday…

Martin O’Neill spoke in the wake of our home defeat by Ferencvaros, and despite trying to put a positive spin on things, he like the supporters knows that that the team and the management badly let themselves down.

The Irishman said at his post match media conference: “We’re naturally disappointed getting beaten. We started off very, very brightly. We had a number of balls that were flashed across the goal and no-one there to put the ball in the net for us.”

“They’re first attempt, proper attempt, really, on goal yielded a goal for them. We come back into the game, got the equaliser just before half-time and then conceded a really poor goal.”

“We’re hit on the break for the third goal. While we had a number of balls flashed across the box even in the last 20 minutes, we didn’t get there to the front post a number of times that could’ve kept it alive and we’re beaten in the game.”

“It’s a huge frustration, obviously, but it’s also psychologically quite damning as well.”

“It’s not the start we wanted. We have seven games in which to try and get some points on the board. Really need to concentrate now on Sunday (against Rangers).

Celtic threw away a 4-0 advantage with an hour of football to play in Linz, followed that up with a horrendously timid showing at Ibrox to exit the Premier Sports Cup and are now very much on the back foot in the Europa League after losing our opening game against a team that got to this stage via a series of playoff matches.

In all three games Celtic were pathetic and the opponents thoroughly deserved their wins.

Martin O’Neill has talked about tactical changes since the pre-season but action speaks louder than words. Every supporter in the stadium could see it last night and you can bet that Derek McInnes and his Rangers players are rubbing their hands with glee and can’t wait for Sunday.

Dominating Celtic at Ibrox in front of their own support was very special indeed for Rangers but what would better than would be to do the same thing again but at Celtic Park in front of 60,000 Celtic supporters.

That will be entirely unacceptable.