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David Irvine

Chris Sutton calls out Atletico 's***housery' after Celtic draw

Chris Sutton branded Atletico Madrid as "really excellent at s***housery" after the Champions League draw against Celtic.

The former Celtic striker reckons the La Liga side are masters of the dark arts in modern football but warned his former club over a lack of "belief and bravery".

Kyogo Furuhashi opened the scoring for Celtic within minutes of kick-off as he stroked into the bottom corner. However, the visitors were level through Antoine Griezmann who scored a rebound after Joe Hart saved his penalty - the spot-kick was awarded for a Greg Taylor foul in the area.

Celtic regained the lead through a terrific Luis Palma drive off the post in the first half, but Alvaro Morata's well-placed header earned a point for the Spanish club.

Atletico were reduced to ten men in the second period with Rodrigo De Paul shown a second yellow and ordered off after 82 minutes.

And pundit Sutton reckons Celtic ran out of steam after a superb first-half display - but he was critical of Brendan Rodgers' decision not to bring striker Oh on later in the match.

On X, formerly known as Twitter, Sutton wrote: "Tremendous first half from Celtic but ran out of steam.

"Not enough belief and bravery in possession in the second half.

"Brendan not throwing Oh on tells it’s own story. Maeda not clean enough with his link up as a central striker.

"Atletico really excellent at s***housery…"

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