Luis Palma was unable to continue his Celtic goalscoring form for Honduras on Friday.
The Hoops winger has struck speculative goals in our last two Premiership matches. He also found the net in brilliant fashion against Lazio, only for the goal to be ruled out for a Daizen Maeda offside.
Palma has his scoring boots on, but he couldn’t translate that into another goal for his country as they were held to a 0-0 draw away to Cuba.
The Celtic star played the entire match but was unable to provide the telling moment on a disappointing night.
The match was the penultimate fixture in Honduras‘ CONCACAF Nations League A group. While that, and a match played in Santo Domingo, doesn’t example scream out ‘hugely important fixture’, it seems like the Honduran press aren’t massively happy with how events played out.
Outlet La Prensa described it as a “nightmarish match”, saying that Palma and co will return home “with their head down.”
Reading a little deeper into things, it seems like the Nations League is vital for Honduras if they want to feature in next year’s Copa America.
The tournament usually only includes teams from South America, but the decision to expand it has been made, with the 2024 version featuring six teams from CONCACAF.
Honduras will stand a chance of qualification if they finish in the top two of their Nations League group. Failure to beat Cuba on Friday means that they must now win their final match on Monday. The opposition? Eh, Cuba again
Should Palma’s side prevail, they could then come up against Alistair Johnston’s Canada or Cameron Carter-Vickers’ United States for the chance to join Messi, Vinicius and more at the big tournament.
That, by the way, is being held in the USA. However, they still have to qualify.
Scotland may not be the first destination that springs to mind when thinking about sunny days, and that image stopped Celtic from landing an England international.
Wolverhampton Wanderers legend and 13-time England international striker Steve Bull admitted that he rejected the interest of Celtic because it was ‘too wet for him’.
Bull scored 306 goals in 561 games for the Old Gold between 1986 and 1999 as he guided Wolves up the Football League Bull joined an exclusive club of third division players to play for England when he made his debut in 1989, and his eye for goal caught the attention of the top clubs from the UK and Europe. But Bull could never be convinced to leave Molineux.
Bull exclusively told Ladbrokes Fanzone: “I know of four clubs I could’ve gone to in my career. I loved Liverpool as a kid, growing up, because they were always one of the best sides to watch, they played in red, and I always thought that if the chance ever came up to go and play for them, then I might have gone. But that’s only because they were my boyhood club. I’m gold and black through and through, but they’re my boyhood club, so it would’ve been a really tough decision, I think.
“But the four clubs the manager told me about over the years… the first was Torino. Back in 1990, after the World Cup, Torino came in for me for about £1.75m. I’d been playing with England in Italy for the best part of six weeks, travelling here, there and everywhere, eating all sorts of stuff.
And, to be honest, I just liked my own English people, English food, the home comforts… and, let’s be honest, they wouldn’t have been able to understand me!
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