Ange bats away BBC reporter’s post match opinion and hails team ‘belief’
Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Aberdeen - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - July 31, 2022 Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Celtic’s battling 1-0 away win at Pittodrie against Aberdeen was a well-deserved victory for the side.
Ange Postecoglou’s side were absolutely dominant in the match but it took a late 25-yard screamer from captain Callum McGregor to seal the three points and put the title momentum back into the Parkhead side.
And as Ange reflected on the match, he was faced with a question from journalist Tyrone Smith that he batted away with his usual light-hearted retort.
Speaking on BBC Sportsound when told that he must be feeling ‘delighted’ and ‘relief’, Postecoglou said, “Delight? Yeah. Not relief.
“That’s as dominant as we have been in a game of football away from home in a difficult place.
“We got our goal late but I just thought our approach the whole way through, our discipline, we didn’t get frustrated, we made them work hard.
“I think they had one shot at goal but as a performance, I couldn’t ask any more of the lads and even though we didn’t win more comfortably, and we should have, when you win 1-0 in that manner just shows the discipline and the belief that boys have in the way that we play.”
There is always belief that this team will score at any point in a game. We are no stranger to a late goal.
We have played this game and told this story countless times this season and last season.
Late goals are part of our game.
McGregor’s 87th-minute strike was nothing more than we deserved as we had to put up with a dogged Aberdeen side that had no intention of playing any kind of football.
Relief? Not for me. Just belief.