Nicholas Makes His Prediction For Celtic’s Clash Against Lazio

Nicholas Makes His Prediction For Celtic’s Clash Against Lazio

Charlie Nicholas is backing his former club to come out on top when they face Lazio at Celtic Park in the Europa League on Thursday evening.

The Serie A side are not the force they once were, but they are a strong counter-attacking team under manager Simone Inzaghi, and the Sky Sports pundit predicts a close affair with the Parkhead atmosphere just pushing things in the home side’s direction:

“It is a cracking game. Lazio are not one of the top names in terms of the Italian teams now and Celtic Park relishes these on European nights. Lazio are seventh in the Serie A but are tough defensively.”

“Odsonne Edouard enjoys these types of games, so he will want to play well and show his credentials. Lazio are well organised and are great on the counter-attack. The crowd are something else on these nights so I think Celtic could just nick it.”

Nicholas has gone for a 2-1 win, which would be a fantastic result in terms of the group. Celtic currently sit top of the table, with four points from their first two games.

Lazio, meanwhile lost their opening match against Cluj in Romania, before coming from behind with two second-half goals to beat Rennes at home earlier this month.

They are not a team that should be feared by Celtic, and the Hoops should be confident of getting a result at home to set themselves up nicely in the group.

David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.