OPINION
It’s fair to say that Celtic fans were unimpressed with their team’s first-half display against Hibernian at Easter Road on Sunday. Remarkably, Neil Lennon’s side were ahead against his former club after just 46 seconds, when Vykintas Slivka cut in from the flank and danced past Jozo Simunovic to slide a shot into the far corner. One of the players held culpable for that goal and a first half performance from Celtic that was markedly mediocre was Emilio Izaguirre. The defender was handed just his sixth appearance of the season in the absence of Kieran Tierney and was used in a left wing-back role as Brendan Rodgers reverted to the three-man defence he regularly used earlier in the campaign, with Jozo Simunovic, Kristoffer Ajer and Filip Benkovic in the centre-back positions. But Izaguirre struggled as Celtic went into the break 1-0 down and many fans were highly critical of his performance.
This Is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/Jamie67_/status/1074287368025317376
We're not getting back into this if we keep this shape. 3 at the back hasn't worked this season and add Sinclair and Izaguirre as your wing backs, it's a disaster
— RH (@_RH88_) December 16, 2018
As much as I love izaguirre, he’s just not good enough
— ferg (@freggu) December 16, 2018
Wtf happened there. Izaguirre caught way out of position and Simunovic sold massively there.
— Murray (@DMMacdonald96) December 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/AliJasem7/status/1074281636018225152
https://twitter.com/maeastro52/status/1074282326580965376
Is Izzy actually playing??? FFS. That goal was atrocious #HIBCEL #Celtic #CelticFC #COYBIG
— Paul J. Laverty (@pauljlaverty) December 16, 2018
Celtic are being overrun by Hibs at Easter Road so far, especially on the wings, where Kristoffer Ajer is a fish out of water at right-back and Emilio Izaguirre is well past it on the other side. The bench looks dire as well, nobody on it who you could expect to change things.
— Jonathan O'Brien (@obrien_jonathan) December 16, 2018