‘Did nothing’: Willie Miller is fuming after watching what Celtic did that ‘constantly exploited’ Aberdeen at Hampden

Speaking after Celtic beat Aberdeen 6-0, Miller raged after Pat Bonner asked if Thelin tactics were ‘naive’ at Hampden as they were ‘constantly exploited’ as Celtic ran all over the Pittodrie club last night.

Miller said on The Scottish Football Podcast [9m 59s], “I said that though, he’s not going to change. I was surprised that McGrath was playing in a forward position. I mean, he was always in contact with Sokler.

He wasn’t a threat because Aberdeen didn’t have possession of the ball. All right, McGrath had to try to get close to McGregor as well, which is a really tough task. However, when Aberdeen did have the ball and they didn’t have it very often, he [McGrath] was up towards Sokler. “So you had the two wide players, who did nothing in the game, in my opinion. If you have the two wide players playing wide and not really threatening, then all you can expect is that the ball will keep coming back.”

“You’ve got McGrath who barely touched the ball in the first half, and Sokler was doing nothing. It wasn’t as if that high press was working because the back four were too deep.

“So you’ve got a back four, the two and then a huge gap in between the two centre midfield players and the four forward Aberdeen players that Celtic just constantly exploited.”