Phil Clement has claimed that his side were fully punished from just two mistakes during the defeat from St Mirren.
It is the sort of garbage that opposition fans love to hear as the Belgian Beale defies logic with media partners to pretend that all is well with his exciting young squad.
If he wants to discuss an exciting young squad Stephen Robinson can point to Callum Penman and Evan Mooney who weren’t allowed to celebrate last night’s win with an alcoholic drink.
Meanwhile James Tavernier and Jack Butland are guaranteed to be picking up over £30,000 a week with contracts running until May 2026 and May 2027 respectively. During the close season Clement put a £30m price tag on the head of the former Crystal Palace reserve.
According to stats from BBC Scotland, who pay Kenny Macintyre, Steven Thompson, Tom English for their comments, St Mirren had three shots on target and two off target.
Clement has clearly been getting fed deflection stats all season although he seems to have piped down on XG
After losing 3-0 to Celtic he highlighted having 47% possession in that match with a reminder that beating Ross County 6-0 the previous week was the club’s biggest win in four years.
Hanging onto stats is always the sign of a failing manager, it seems that Robin Propper falling over the ball in his own half to give away possession doesn’t count as a mistake while the same defender hitting his own bar from a corner also isn’t considered a mistake.
After the late defeat in Paisley Clement was caught cold, back at Murray Park today he had the excuses refreshed as he spoke to Sky Sports to preview Sunday’s match away to Motherwell.
I see this ‘Young Team’ myth is still being peddled… 😂
The average age of the outfield players, from the last games against Motherwell/St. Mirren:
✅ Celtic – 25.0
❌ Rangers – 25.6 https://t.co/cpkORvE8y3— 🍔 Gastro Celtic 🍀 (@Gastro_Celtic) December 27, 2024
By making two mistakes in that game, so…And of course what I said after the game, I said that I was not happy with our intensity and our ball retention in the first half but even then we created enough chances to win the game.
We made two individual mistakes and we get two goals against us. You pay cash with every mistake, for the rest, St Mirren was not really in the game, we had 75% ball possession but too slow in the first half but better in the second half and that is the team that I want to see 90 minutes long.
We missed it not to start like that, even if you make mistakes you can make then up.
Gordon Duncan then claimed that the defeat came at the end of a good two months- a period in which they also lost at Aberdeen, drew at home to Dundee United and lost the League Cup Final to Celtic.
With media partners feeding that sort of line it is little surprise that Clement waffles through interviews defying logic and the action that fans have watched through.
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