How Kieran Tierney (1st player highlighted) has been given an Error Led to Goal by OptaJoe is beyond me. Engels has let the ball get away, then between Ralston & Yang recovering back in making their own clear errors leading to the goal. Justice for KT ✊🍀

@OptaJoe How is Engels supposed to get anywhere near that pass 🤣

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@OptaJoe This is the exact moment Tierney hits the pass. If there was ever a definition of "that's never on" it's this pass.

@OptaJoe Making a late push for worst tweet of 2025, fair play.

Making a late push for maybe poorly worded or misunderstood, never blamed Engels anywhere. The point is KTs pass isn't to no one and it's not so terrible a pass that it is the fault of the goal for me. Ofc it starts the move off but between everyone else involved, the pass is hardly the worst offense

@OptaJoe Engles has let the ball get away? You’re actually serious here. 😂

@OptaJoe How has Engels let the ball get away? He’s travelling in the other direction, and the ball is moving away from him… Agree harsh on KT, but feck all to do with Engels

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@OptaJoe Not having that. Ball is never on. Engels man closing in and like everyone else, Engels clearly and rightly thinks KT is going to play forward. Bad ball, Engels not culpable.

@OptaJoe Correct me in am wrong but has KT not just played a cunt of ball behind his teammate

@OptaJoe If Engels got to that pass he’d need drug tested after it. Nowhere near him. Tierney’s error did lead to it but i’d say Yang and Ralston were more at fault.

@OptaJoe The ball goes to where he's standing, he's moved away from the only lane the ball could be played to him and he's clearly the free man in the situation. I'm not particularly saying he is making a massive error here that's led to the goal, but it's not all on KTs pass as such

@JQuinn8723 @OptaJoe If the ball is drilled straight he's getting it to run on to. Hes right not to expect the ball to be hooked back towards our own goal. It's a poor pass.

@Quinny3001 @OptaJoe Exactly. The same passing lane is open in both frames shown here. KT passed it 2-3 yards behind Engels. Its simply a poor pass that needed to be perfect. Otherwise he should’ve carried the ball a few yards himself to open up a different pass.

I think he's hit where Engels was when he saw him, it's all happened so fast, I'm not really criticising Engels here but it's not as if KT played it to no one. Engels knows he's the spare man in space and the pass to get out of the crowd, they were on different pages. Ultimately not an out and out Error from KT

@RyanDocherty67_ @OptaJoe Aye if Engels just stopped dead it would have came to him but allowed the defender to get in front. You can’t expect a teammate thats moving to just stop dead though. I agree that the bigger culprits are Yang and Ralston but i’ve no clue about opta stats.

@RyanDocherty67_ @OptaJoe I'm only saying it's not as if KT has played it to no one Engels was were he passed 🤷🏻‍♂️

@BanterSpud @OptaJoe Have tae disagree wae yae here Quinny Kieran’s pass is behind Engels an goes tae the Motherwell player. He gave the baw away cheaply ah few times yesterday

@BanterSpud @OptaJoe It's still extremely harsh to credit that as the cause of the goal

@BanterSpud @OptaJoe It is it wis ah combination of initial pass Yang get ah toe tae the baw inadvertently causing ralston tae miss his challenge while rolling perfectly intae the livi players stride for him tae have ah strike Love yir stuff Quinny aw the best for the new year 💚

@OptaJoe He not only passes behind Engels who's clearly got forward motion, the shape of the ball is curving away from him too. Whether it's his error that led to the goal, debatable, but it's certainly not Engels fault.

@OptaJoe It's on Engels to be available to receive when the crowd is out wide

You cannot lay any blame at Engles door for this 😂 Ralston is extremely poor Yang should perhaps do better Ultimately its a terrible pass, poorly executed and not even the correct option. Safe possession lost, that directly leads to a goal! He is the source of all the goes wrong

@OptaJoe The point of the tweet is it's not Tierney's Error led to Goal

@OptaJoe It clearly does, others could bail him out and don't but its his original error that leads to it Like saying sinisalo could save it but doesn't

@OptaJoe Tell me you have an anti-Engels agenda without saying you have an anti-Engels agenda. Each to their own, but I don’t see in what universe that Engels has made an error there.

@OptaJoe Sorry bud, if you've heard me ever on anything you'd know that's not the case, no agenda on anyone

@OptaJoe Engels has let the ball get away? He was 5 yards ahead of where the ball was passed to. Fuckin hell

@OptaJoe He's standing where the ball goes, if he stays in the only lane the ball can be played then he's in a 50/50 with the livi player 🤷🏻‍♂️

@OptaJoe Get a video of the full thing up, without the pauses. Every player is running towards the livi goal. The lane is there for the pass ahead of Engels. Why would Engels remain static when everyone else is.moving to get up the field?

@OptaJoe KT with a hospital pass. Yang not at fault Neither Engels or Yang a fault here. Ralston doesn't know whether he needs a shite or a haircut here. KT initial mistake. Dreadful defending from Ralston.

@OptaJoe Engles lets the ball get away🤣 ffs even a prime Usan Bolt wouldn't have got to that ball

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@OptaJoe Agree you would have to give it every time a player played an incomplete pass in thr build up to an opp goal. Ridiculous. Imo the key error is Ralston inexplicably deciding to step up, is he gebuinely trying to play offaide trap? If so, LOL.

@OptaJoe Exactly!! 💯

@OptaJoe Yang receiving a lot of unfair criticism. He was already on his bike to setup an attack, and then asked to make a risky slide tackle from behind, which actually buys Ralston a split second had he have been in the correct position. Ralston stood there like a P1 playing with P7s

@OptaJoe Haha what the fuck are you on about here that’s a big error that’s led to a goal 🤦🏻‍♂️

@OptaJoe KT was the first error. Ralston was the second and third. How you can blame Engels or Yang for KT’s terrible pass is baffling.

@OptaJoe beyond you 😂😂😂 he is in control and then plays a slack pass which leads to the goal…its pretty simple stuff

@OptaJoe Nothing to do with Engels - shocking ball from Tierney and not for the first time either.

@OptaJoe Yang and particular Ralston don’t cover themselves in glory here, but how anyone can say KTs pass isn’t an error is a weird take. Engels probably the only one not at fault here. He’s literally making an attacking run

@OptaJoe Tierney error originally then Ralston not great either imo.

@OptaJoe The breakdown comes from KT playing a pointless pass, the ball goes loose, Yang is after pushing up the field because he saw us in possession, then he’s slow getting back & Ralston is just ball watching. AE couldn’t do very much about it as he’s ahead of the ball

@OptaJoe It's a suicidal 'pass' from KT. He's been doing better but hes made poor decisions on the ball since his return. How you can blame A. Engels for 'letting the ball get away' is classic A. Engels agenda driven nonsense. I agree the goal should have still been avoided from there.

@OptaJoe Tierneys pass was terrible. How anyone could look at that and blame Engle’s or Yang is bizarre. Ralston though…

@OptaJoe Jeezo. Still time to delete. I’m not Engels biggest fan, been better of late, but to blame him here is wild

@OptaJoe Not blaming him 🤷🏻‍♂️

@OptaJoe Bit of a daft ball tbh. Especially on that plastic. Need to be sure with square balls on the plastic.

@OptaJoe Because his error led to the goal

@OptaJoe the fact you said engels let that get away when passed 10 yards behind him is insane you're not a serious person

@OptaJoe C'mon the ball is miles behind Engels, what's he meant to do, teleport? Yang does well to even get a toe on it. Ralston, even when Montano gets to the edge of the box is doing everything he can to get out of the way and not engage. Inexplicably bad defending.

@OptaJoe Have you played fitba? That’s got bugger all to do with Engels. If a player is moving in any direction, you generally play the ball to where he is moving. Ralston and Yang, yes but my god it’s not Engels problem

@OptaJoe Yeah, I'm not blaming Engels. Not blamed him anywhere.

@OptaJoe Ok, I’ve read that as claiming Engels as he let the ball get away. Apologies

@OptaJoe If Ralston did that pass you'd blame Ralston. Wise up.

@OptaJoe Tierney definitely makes an error. Engels definitely not. Yang has made a tackle and that’s inadvertently taken it past Ralston as he reads attacker intention. The only thing that really leads to a goal is the tackle but I’m assuming you wouldn’t get an error for a tackle?

@OptaJoe Sober up ya mad bastard 😂

@OptaJoe Bollocks Engels doesn't let the ball get away he's running forward looking for the pass which is then played behind him to the livi player

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@OptaJoe Engels has let the ball get away🤣 wit

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@OptaJoe Read the replies and yours reasoning. naw mate. KT fucked up. Ralston and Yang also at fault here big time.