In the Bodø/Glimt shirt, Kasper Høgh got the best working conditions to take big steps in his development. In addition, the Dane got to do this in the biggest arena, the Champions League. Celtic and Martin O’Neill flashed Høgh as the perfect striker in the Scottish league – and for games in Europe. In his second game, the Dane scored a hat-trick and the supporters got a new favorite in the club’s most expensive player. Three months later, there are murmurs in the stands, but coach O’Neill promises Høgh will come up with more.
We rewind to mid-August. Høgh had made his debut in the Celtic shirt, but left the field without scoring. Then coach O’Neill stated that Kasper is coming, give him time. Already in the next game, the former Glimt star hammered in a hat-trick.
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Since then, there has been no goal celebration at Høgh. With a price tag of around £11 million, the criticism has therefore not surprisingly started to hail over the Danish international.
As recently as Sunday afternoon, he once again had to leave the pitch without scoring, and this prompted former Celtic manager Neil Lennon to make a sharp criticism of the Dane in Sky Sports’ coverage of the match.
“I think Kasper Høgh’s overall play is bad. His finishing is a bit clumsy. He hasn’t been fantastic, but he hasn’t been terrible either. A goal might change things for him, but his overall game also needs to be improved,” Lennon said.
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Current Celtic coach Martin O’Neill has a completely different view of Kasper Høgh’s performance and puts it in the context of the whole game.
“I think it’s just about the goals. I keep saying that the goals will come, but I don’t just say that for my own sake or to reassure myself. I think that the goals will come. If you’re a striker who primarily operates in the box, sometimes what happens further out on the pitch is not decisive when it comes down to it, but it will turn around for him,” O’Neill insisted to Sky Sports.
