The Scottish League Cup trophy will not be heading to Celtic Park this winter.
Auston Trusty and Celtic suffered a disappointing finals loss on Sunday, losing 3-1 at Hampden Park to St. Mirren. Trusty played the full 90 minutes, but Wilfried Nancy’s losing start as Celtic manager continued with the Glasgow-based club falling for the third time in a week.
Marcus Fraser propelled St. Mirren in front after two minutes, giving Stephen Robinson’s men an early advantage.
However, Celtic would equalize before halftime as Reo Hatate leveled the match in the 23rd minute.
St. Mirren would capture its second lead of the afternoon in the 64th minute as Jonah Ayunga played the hero for The Buddies.
Ayunga would add his second goal of the half to pad St. Mirren’s lead and condemning Celtic to further misery.
It marked St. Mirren’s first league cup trophy lift since 2013.
Nancy, who took over last weekend, is now 0-3-0 in his opening three matches in charge. His loss to AS Roma in UEFA Europa League play on Thursday made him the first Celtic manager to lose his opening two matches in charge of the historic club.
Celtic will now turn its sights back to Premiership action on Wednesday with a trip to Dundee United.
Trusty might as well come back to MLS. MLS is a much better league than the Scotrish League. Sorry Nancy you chose wrong.
I saw a lot of their loss to Roma and they were pathetic.
Their passing was so bad that I think they would have lost to a mediocre MLS club. I don’t know what the problem is, but Roma shredded them. Nancy has a lot of work to do.
It takes Wilfred awhile to get things going. Started with just 4 pts thru Crews first 4 matches and 5-3-6 (w-d-l) thru May in his first year, 16-6-5 the rest of the way. Wilfred is great with tactics but he’s also a good man manager, he takes the mediocre and gets them to believe they are great. Rudy Camacho is a free agent I believe, he’d be a cheap option to help Wilfred instill and install his ideas. I don’t think he’d help in CL but the SPL would not be beyond his level even at age 34.
I think if The Crew are patient Wilfred Nancy might be available again before the season starts. It took a couple months in Columbus get things heated up, hoped he gets that time with Celtic.
They’re so freaking arrogant, too. They have zero idea what they have. The fan chatter on social media is unbelievable.
Columbus would absolutely shred this clunky Celtic side. The thing Nancy will have, though, is the January transfer window – and I’d say it’s likely a safe bet there’s some guys from the Crew headed that way.
Zawadzki and Farsi. I’m sure he’d like Moreira and Arfsten but I don’t know they could afford those two. I think Trusty will fit well and Alistair Johnston if he can get healthy. He needs a CM but that was an issue for Columbus this summer too. I don’t think he can convince Nagbe for 5 more months. He was rumored there in the 20 teens. I don’t think even a healthy CCV fits. Reuniting with Mihailovic wouldn’t be bad but he just moved to Toronto in July. I think they just need time, but that fan base is so used to it being easy for the last. Won 13 of last 14 leagues, haven’t finished lower than 2nd since ‘95. Wilfred has a knack of turning averaging looking players into ball playing maestros if given some time.