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Chess Pieces Played

James Dailey
Jun 16, 2025
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With the flurry of transfer rumors last week, I decided to prioritize the benchmarking pieces, but the regular weekly column returns. The goal? To somehow connect Celtic lineups from four Europa League games from 2019-2020 with the Norwegian 2nd tier.

The Celtic TV Twitter account shared a video flashback Sunday of the late Olivier Ntcham winner in Rome versus Lazio. Viewing and enjoying that trip down memory lane caused me to have a look at the lineups from the two games versus Lazio within Wyscout.

That was how Wyscout coded the game relative to formations. For those who do not recall specific numbers:

22 Edouard, 27 Elyounoussi, 42 McGregor, 8 Brown, 17 Christie, 15 Hayes, 35 Ajer, 2 Julien, 33 Elhamed, 49 Forrest, and 67 Forster with subs of 21 Ntcham, 6 Bitton, and 13 Bauer

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