Celtic’s look ahead to a goalkeeper to save a penalty in common play goes on, with Joe Hart the last to do it.
Remarkably, September 2023 was the last time we noticed a Celtic goalkeeper save a spot-kick, excluding shootouts. In the time since, they’ve conceded eleven, with ten being scored.
That one miss was from Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins, off-target and completely skied over the bar
But with the relaxation all stepping into, we checked out the large pattern of confronted penalties in that point, and who the important culprits have been.
Where has it gone fallacious for Kasper Schmeichel this season?
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Celtic’s penalties confronted since Joe Hart
Again, just isn’t counting penalty shootouts, of which Celtic have performed in 4 in the time since Hart’s penalty save.
In these 4, Celtic have saved only one effort: Hart in opposition to Aberdeen’s Ryan Duncan. Kasper Schmeichel saved none in his three shootouts in opposition to Rangers, Aberdeen and Kairat Almaty.
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Hart saved a penalty in Celtic’s Champions League draw against Atletico Madrid, however Antoine Griezmann instantly scored the rebound.
Therefore, Hart’s save against Feyenoord at De Kuip, virtually 30 months ago, is the last time a group noticed their spot-kick saved in opposition to Celtic.
Aside from Watkins’ miss, Schmeichel has conceded all eight of these he has confronted at Celtic. Two of these had been in the similar sport in opposition to Borussia Dortmund last season.
Robbie Muirhead, James Tavernier, Apostolos Stametolopolous, Martin Boyle and Lawrence Shankland have all scored in opposition to him from the spot this season.
Viljami Sinisalo confronted his first in a Celtic jersey in Wednesday’s 2-1 win at Aberdeen, conceding to Kevin Nisbet. Earlier this season, the Finn additionally conceded one in opposition to Norway’s Erling Haaland… however we’ll excuse that.
Finally, Hart conceded all three of these confronted in his ultimate season domestically, in opposition to Tavernier, Jorge Grant and Mark O’Hara.
Has he performed his manner into the group for Ibrox?
Martin O’Neill on Celtic’s Viljami Sinisalo
We’ll all be hoping that Sinisalo can buck this development, ought to the Finn maintain his beginning place. Speaking about him after the sport, Martin O’Neill sang his praises.
“I’m quite sure that every single goalkeeper has had to sit back for a while and wait for your chance, if that’s the case.
“History will tell you this.
“But Kasper’s had a great career behind him, this young lad’s trying to make a career in front of him. And I’m not saying that we’re using this as an opportunity, honestly.
“But it is and I’m sure you’ll find this an opportunity for him to impress and try and do well, to try and hold down the spot.
“The decision was made for me. It’s a battle. And why shouldn’t goalkeepers have a battle on? Outfield players, we’re changing the side around, we’re chopping and changing at different stages. We bring on substitutes, we do all of these particular things at the end of it.
“And in the long term, it’ll give whoever’s going to be managing (next season) at least an opportunity to say, let’s go look back.
“And if you’re going to have a test, it might as well be at Stuttgart away, and it might as well be at Ibrox. I knew he played at Ibrox, but I didn’t realise he’d played about five or six games at the back end of last season. And apparently he did pretty well.
“I thought he did well enough in Stuttgart to give you hope that if he was called upon at Ibrox that this would be the case.
“So I think at the minute, I thought he passed the test. But if you’re asking me if I was just coming into this and these were my first games, I’m not saying that I had any other thought. But I think that Brendan (Rodgers) was going to give him the cup games.
“I’m talking about Sinisalo at the time, and my first game was Falkirk. And I think he might have been getting that game. But when I come in, the bets are off.
“I’m going to go for the experience and what I know, because I didn’t know the young lad. So from that viewpoint, and at least he’s come through that sort of test, which is great.”
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