Post Match Raw: PRO EVO GAME

Dave, I mean, so many positives you just have to say, "I'll take it." But overall, I think the word that sort of struck me most about that game was it felt a bit daft, and, and only because of, of the concession.

If it had been a, a parade or a procession, even five-six-one, I'd be feeling different.

It's just the way [laughs] the concession of the goals just felt a bit silly, especially when we had, uh, the lads we had on, uh, coming in, et cetera.

Have you, you, you...

I'm not saying you're shoring it up.

I'm not trying to insult Araujo and, and, uh, and Jacquet, but it, it just, it just felt a bit funny.

It was funny.

Like, it was a fun game.

Yeah.

And there's a lot of positives that we'll, we'll go through.

There, there are some concerning things that we saw today.

Um, we, we breezed through the first half.

I thought we were actually very good first half for large periods.

Go in three-nil up, go four-nil up, make the changes, and then they scored their first, and normally I'd be annoyed 'cause it's, it's ruining an Alisson clean sheet, but this is LASK.

This is a, a small middling club in Austria who won a league title last season for the first time in 60-odd years, and you know, they score a goal when four-nil down, and I should hate them because they knocked Celtic out of this competition, by the way.

Tonight should've been Celtic versus Liverpool, just so we're all clear, and I would've been much happier.

But you could see how much it meant to those fans.

Like, they're four-one down, and they're s- it's four-nil down and they score, and they're celebrating like they've just won another league title, and you know, like, you know what? This is really cool because their manager was very clear.

Like, they're not a Champions League caliber team.

He said Liverpool are just miles and miles better than them and, you know, he was very open and honest about what they are and where they are as a club, and, and they're not having a, a, a great season.

Uh, they were beaten at the weekend.

They, I don't think they've won any of their last four in the league.

They lost their first game in this league phase of the Champions League and, and Celtic really should've beaten them, battered them at Celtic Park, were all over them there a- at that stadium when they played in the second leg and then just capitulated.

But, like, to see them score that goal, that's, that's the type of memory that they'll have forever, you know? That to them is a huge moment, so I was deli- I was actually delighted for them that they got the, the goal even though it ruined Ali's clean sheet and, you know, then we go and we score again, and we score again, and you're like, "Okay, six-one, that's actually a fair enough reflection on, on what we've seen to 72 minutes." And then I, I don't know what happens.

There's just five minutes of utter stupidity, and the second and third goals, I mean, there's, there's just a mess defensively o- on the right-hand side.