OPINION
Mikael Lustig had shown improvement under Neil Lennon’s leadership and the added competition from January signing Jeremy Toljan, but the Celtic right-back had a shocker against Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday and it’s no shock that he went off at half-time. It just looked as though Lustig, 32, could not hack playing against Ryan Kent and decided to fake an injury to get taken off by Lennon. The Swedish defender has been woeful at times in the last few seasons but it will be hard to find a performance as bad as that by him in the green and white hoops. Toljan was not much better than Lustig when he came on but at least he had a bit more pace to be able to cope with Kent. Maybe Lennon should never have started Lustig for this game but you would have thought that someone with that much experience would have worked out how to defend against players quicker than him by now.
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Lustig isn’t good enough anymore, not sure if Johnston is Celtic quality. All over the place. Too inconsistent.
— Martin Clarke Campbell (@Miverick) May 12, 2019
Finger out Celtic. Lustig at fault for the free kick that led to the goal he’s a liability and needs to go. Lucky to still be in it at 1-0. Still time to win the game tho. Up the Celts ????
— Stephen Mallon (@Mazzgoine) May 12, 2019
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A was all for giving lustig a new contract to be part of 10IAR until now, deserves nothing after coming off for the second time at ibrox cause we are playing shocking
— Dale Dickson (@DaleDickson9) May 12, 2019
Sell Lustig when transfer window opens big games when gets tough he goes down injured
— Christopher ?????????????? (@chrissy872) May 12, 2019
Awful performance..Lustig at fault for the goal then as per usual goes off injured. No point in saying anything about the rest….rotten.
— CMac (@CMack659) May 12, 2019