Chris Sutton on Celtic:-
"They're deficient in every area of the team. This current team are miles off it. Where is the plan, what's the strategy?"
The beeb article goes on:-
"They are still four points clear, but some other stats paint a grim picture for Celtic.
Twenty-four shots to Falkirk's six; nine on target compared to Falkirk's two (their two goals); more than double the possession and almost three times as many touches in the opposition box. Celtic had 14 corners, Falkirk had none."
So, they are top of the league, absolutely hammered Falkirk in the final third, but just couldn't finish. Sutton, in a job for being a bit grumpy, like Hansen and Shearer, but not for much else.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cmvg7d1xl8epo
There's a video clip, in the article above, where Martin O'Neil, with incredible patience, explains to the village idiot masquerading as a hack about squad rotation. He bats away the hack's other questions, and chooses not to humiliate him asking what he means by "patterns of play."
After all the hyperbole in that article and elsewhere, former manager Ian McColl said "It's not a vintage Celtic."
And that would be fair. The club are in a tin pot league, fail on a regular basis in Europe and have found that a fanbase alone doesn't amount to much in the world of TV and Champions League revenues. They, and Rangers have been slipping away for a long time.
Every year they have to be very astute in the transfer market. Their resources are finite, and this season funds were held back because they were paying off instances of child abuse by their, very connected to the club, boy's club.