Originally published at: John Hartson left disappointed with Carl Starfelt after Celtic loss
John Hartson was left furious with the role Carl Starfelt played in today’s Glasgow derby winner as Rangers overcame Celtic. The Swedish centre-back has had a troubling time of it in Glasgow since signing for £4m earlier this summer [The Herald]. A horrendous error against AZ Alkmaar led to massive pressure being on his shoulders…
Starfelt was solid today. Not to blame for that one.
One sided, predictable antics today. Much, much better though
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Big John you are wrong today he was marking Goldston and Christie was behind him doing nothing and the cross was good and best for attacking players to head at goal … i would not blame Starfelt
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Starfelt played well today and NOT to blame for the goal.
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Celtic need two,tall,mobile centre halves.Otherwise,we will always be vulnerable at set plays and Europe could be a nightmare.Edouard,Christis and Turnbull were garbage.The really annoying thing is watching a p.ss poor group of dumplings celebrating as if they had won a Petrofac Cup.Aided by Clancy,in front of their own fans,they were utter mince.Morehairloss is a worthless,diving,greeting faced cheat…
Starfelt i thought played well. Nobody blocked the run of the goal scorer. |You have to stand in his way and be strong. You do not have to win the ball just stop him running and getting a leap on the defender going for the ball. We are better than last season at it but this time no one took control and made sure everyone was doing their job. Hopefully they will keep working on it and eventually become expert. The Italian teams are masters at such tactics. They had one chance and scored . We had three and unusually for us missed them all. I wonder how the new Greek guy coming in will play with Kyogo. Looks like they are both centre forwards. Could be that they will both interchange positions and get extra mobile.
Hartson is wrong Starfelt was one of our better players, if he wants to single someone out it should be Edouard he was dreadful
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Starfelt had a good game and should not be scapegoated for the goal.
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The cross for their goal was inch perfect, pretty hard to defend that sort of service tbf, unlike us they took their chance. Don’t know where Big Bad John is getting 26 Swedish caps from, I thought Starfelt had about caps for Sweden? He had his best gane so far in the hoops, read the play pretty well, brave & strong on the head, made some excellent clearances. Hartson shouldn’t be name checking him.
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capped 26 times by Sweden
Much respect for Hartson but his opinion on Starfelt yesterday was clearly not accurate. 
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Big John, so wrong! …. and has been for a few weeks now! Eduard is a dud and we should take anything we can get for him! No emotion, doesn’t mix it up with defenders and certainly has no heart for a fight…… doesn’t even communicate with his teammates!! he’s one man you would never want in the trenches with you!
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