Wata kyakkyawan karin gida da ya rufe nasarar 3-0 akan LASK ya nuna duk abin da Celtic ke son zama a cikin UEFA Champions League: hankali, rashin tausayi, da sha'awa. Wannan matakin, wanda bai wuce dakika 30 ba, ya fara da mai tsaron gida Viljami Sinisalo, ya ratsa Colby Donovan da Auston Trusty a baya, ya kuma ƙare da Camilo Duran yana kai ƙwallon kai tsaye a kusurwa ta sama bayan wuce da sauri tare da Benjamin Nygren. Wannan shi ne irin kwallon da ke aika saƙo.

Duran da Nygren sun yi daren tarihi

Duran shi ne jagorar farko, yana ba da gudummawar ƙwallaye biyu — ciki har da wata kyakkyawan volley — tare da tsinkaye maras gajiya na tsaro wanda ya sa Martin O'Neill ya yabe shi tare da sa masoya Celtic su kaunace shi. Ko da ɗansa na 3-0 a minti na 72, ɗan wasan Kolombiya mai shekaru 24 yana har yanzu yana tafiya zuwa rabin filinsa don ya dawo da ƙwallon. Wannan shi ne nau'in gaskiya da ke raba ɗan wasa mai kyau daga mafi kyau.

Nygren, a nashi ɓangare, ya ci gaba da jerin abubuwan ban mamaki — ƙwallaye huɗu a wasa huɗu na wannan kakar, bayan 21 a kakar da ta gabata. Ba Ɗan Sweden ba ya yi komai illa zira ƙwallo da yin assists, kuma haka ne daidai abin da duk wani koci a duniya ke nema. Callum McGregor ya yi wasa da kyau sosai a layin tsakiya, kuma Donovan — matashi mai cike gurbin winger na dama — ya burge O'Neill sosai har ya sami wannan siffa: «Babba, babba zuciya. Sha'awa ba tare da iyaka ba.»

Bambanci mai kayatarwa da kunya ta bara

Watanni goma sha biyu da suka wuce, Celtic an fitar da su daga UEFA Champions League ta hannun Kairat Almaty na Kazakhstan, ba tare da zira ƙwallo ɗaya ba a cikin mintuna 210 na wasan kafin su rasa bugun fanareti uku a bugun fanareti. A ranar Laraba, sun zira ƙwallo uku daga wasa na yau da kullun akan LASK — zakaran Austria da masu cin kofin — wanda ba ƙungiya mai sauƙi ba. O'Neill ya yi hankali ya faɗakar da gargaɗi kafin ƙarin wasan, kuma daidai: LASK sun ƙirƙira dama da yawa a Glasgow kuma za su isa gida tare da babu abin da za su rasa.

Duk da haka, fifikon Celtic mai koshin lafiya da yiwuwar samun kusan £40 miliyan a matsayin kyauta ta UEFA Champions League suna wakiltar juyin akida mai ban mamaki. Sun yi nasara a 10 kawai daga cikin wasa 50 na Turai kafin wannan sakamako.

Kashe kuɗi da hikima — dawowa kan daidai

O'Neill ya tabbatar da cewa Celtic yana da riba a fagen canja wurin ɗan wasa, tare da sanya Duran, Nygren, da sauransu ana biyan kuɗi da yawa daga tallace-tallace na Arne Engels da Daizen Maeda. Duran, wanda aka sanya shi tsakanin £4.5 miliyan da £6 miliyan, yana kama kamar ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun kasuwanci da ƙungiyar ta yi shekaru da yawa — dawowa ga neman ɗan wasa mai daraja wanda ya bunƙasa a ƙarƙashin Ange Postecoglou.

Kasper Hogh, wanda yayi shiru akan LASK amma aka saye shi da £11 miliyan, wani ɗan wasa ne wanda O'Neill ke jiran ya bayar da sakamako a makonni masu zuwa. Bambancin da gazawar kwanan nan mai tsada yana da wuya a yi watsi da shi.

Har ina sha'awar Celtic ta isa?

O'Neill ya kasance a fili game da abin da har yanzu za a yi. Celtic yana bukatar wani mai tsaron gida, hagu na baya, watakila cibiyar tsaro, ɗan wasa mai tsaro a tsakiya, da kuma ɗan wasa mai ƙirƙira a tsakiya don su yi gasa da gaske a Turai. Cin kyaututtukan gida ba shi ne ma'aunin ba — masoya suna son rabo daga abin da ƙungiyoyi kamar Bodo/Glimt, Midtjylland, da Freiburg suka samu a nahiyar.

Aikin Laraba ya kasance mataki mai ƙarfi a wannan alkibla. Filin wasa wanda kwanan nan ya yi amfani da zanga-zangar yana yanzu cike da imani. Duran ya taimaka wajen maido da wannan yanayi, kuma zai zama muhimmi a ƙoƙarin Celtic don kiyaye shi.