As news of the goal deluge from the Bernabeu arrived last night it must have caused some reflection at Celtic. Real Madrid thumped Malmo, our eliminators, 8-0. Malmo are not, after all, this season’s surprise packages.
European football is an unforgiving environment, not just for the minnows. Roma, who are currently second in their Champions League group, lost 6-1 in Barcelona two weeks ago. That result came on the back of Bayern Munich taking a 0-5 lead inside 36 minutes in front of 70,000 fans in Rome in last season’s tournament. Bayern went on to win 1-7 in what was supposed to be a game which changed Roma’s ways.
Roma are a good team, currently fourth in Serie A, but their expansive tendencies have earned them humiliating results against teams capable of exploiting them.
Rule No. 1 in Europe is to be defensively disciplined. If you don’t have that aspect of the game figures out, you are as well not competing.
While John Collins was no doubt sincere in saying he could see tonight’s game far enough, he should be relishing the opportunity to test his defence against a European team. This is our last chance before next season’s qualifiers. It is a precious occasion to test tactics.
Thanks to everyone who has bought Winds of Change, and for the fantastic feedback on what was an incredible era to be a Celtic supporter.
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Delany’s Dunky: I’m planning that trip to Stranraer for Jan 10 so let me know if you can secure two tickets for me. HH – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/next-goals-the-winner/comment-page-11/#comment-2733802
1st
Hiya bobbies.
second podium this year.
Do I win tickets for Jan 10? Two would be nice:-)
Eh? Alone?
Almore ya bampot, that’s twice this week I’ve been beaten into second lol
Hail hail
ALMORE
I’ll contact you over the weekend if you’re available re DUBLIN 2016
CLOGHERCELT is still recovering from his op,as you know,so we’d best get our heads together,I reckon.
Tomorrow surely?
Eddie: I just missed out yesterday when no comments box appeared at the end of the article even though I was logged in.
Anyway, back to teaching the kids.
Bad timing, podium plums on at this time, aff oot…..
BMCUWP: No problem, bhud.
Almore
I will be travelling to Stranraer for that tie. One of the few Scottish grounds I have not visited.
Any spare tickets for Stranraer please. Looking for four.
Hail Hail
Maybe they could have tried “next goal’s the winner” at the Real-Malmo game?
Obviously that was meant to be bobbie :)
Well in Almore.
SIPSINI
Howdy,bud. How’s tricks?
You still trying to make a silk purse out of Chinese steel?
Is Dave the cross eyed liar in court today.
Cant see any reports on the above????
Clarencecfc
Making fun of King’s squint is a bit low
Especially when he gives us so much other material! GASL? Convicted tax criminal?
Hoping the hoops show up well in Turkey but that ajax don’t scrape through on our efforts
BMCUW…
I’m not too bad mate, cheers for asking.
I’ve got a belter of a scarf to take over to Dublin, daughters boyfriend got it for me, supposedly not a lot have been made.
Good to see you posting again.
Lunch break over, back to machining broken bottles :( HH
BUTSYBHOY
Case deferred till tomorrow.
The huns are celebrating that as a victory!!
is John Kennedy really the first teams defensive coach?
why ?
EddieIK
Do you fancy a wee trip to Stranraer in the New Year?
Delaneys
I was having problems with data on my moby too.
One suggestion was to have a browser for cqn only. I did this and use Firefox with an ad blocker…
It’s working for me
whitedoghunch on 9th December 2015 1:15 pm
is John Kennedy really the first teams defensive coach?
why ?
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I know, I know. I often wonder what he did to deserve that too…
Legia Warsaw and Celtic Glasgow on the list of clubs who will try to sign Adam Gyurcso from Videoton.
Tyson Fury gives his opinion and now has half the country baying for his blood. Alistair Carmichael tells lies against an opponent and goes to court they agree he lied but never really hurt anyone so no charge to answer.This is loopy the establishment protecting the establishment the public are being played as suckers and truth suffers. H.H.
The blog is clearly broken due to the fact that everyone is trying to work out Adam Gyurcso’s height to 9 decimal places in the absence of DBBIA…
The native form of this personal name is Gyurcsó Ádám. This article uses the Western name order.
Ádám Gyurcsó
Personal information
Full name Ádám Gyurcsó
Date of birth 6 March 1991 (age 24)
Place of birth Tatabánya, Hungary
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Winger
Club information
Current team
Videoton
Number 7
Youth career
2003–2008 Tatabánya
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2008– Videoton 100 (21)
2011 → Kecskemét (loan) 17 (4)
National team‡
2011–2012 Hungary U-21 2 (0)
2012– Hungary 13 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 December 2015.
† Appearances (goals)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 November 2015
Ádám Gyurcsó (born 6 March 1991 in Tatabánya) is a Hungarian football winger who currently plays for Videoton.
In the 2010-2011 season, he played for the second team of Videoton FC. With six goals and 14 assists, he was a key player in a great season. In the following season, he was loaned to Kecskeméti TE. His start was promising with good stats and after six months on loan, Videoton FC wanted to get him back at home. Often as a substitute, he got more and more minutes to play. He finished the season with six goals and ten assists in Hungarian top flight.
starry plough
Only two decimal places on that height? What a let down…
Davidopoulos
I am poor substitute for DBBIA:))
Oh great just what we need another winger
JOE FILIPPIS HAIRCUT on 9TH DECEMBER 2015 1:34 PM
Tyson Fury gives his opinion and now has half the country baying for his blood. Alistair Carmichael tells lies against an opponent and goes to court they agree he lied but never really hurt anyone so no charge to answer.This is loopy the establishment protecting the establishment the public are being played as suckers and truth suffers. H.H.
Politicians simply lie all the time.
The Carmichael result illustrates that anyone trying to buck the establishment is on to plums.
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GEORDIE MUNRO ,About B T Sports after i asked about getting bt sports for a tenner,a letter arrived from them asking if i would like to get there sports for 9 -99 for 3 months and free H D ,I phoned them up and low and be hold i got it for that price i wasup and running in about 2 hours
It looks as though our scouts have finally arrived in Eastern Europe / Balkans. Hope they managed to find another centre half as well as a goalkeeper centre mid and a striker.
Do the scouts all just go to one country and concentrate their efforts there? The fail safe is always those not getting a game in Manchester.
Malmo lost 8 nil because they are rubbish. We would only have lost 3 or 4 nil if we played to our potential and not the kamikaze instructions from Ronny.
I hope we get lucky this transfer window.
This site is, by a long, long way the slowest I have ever encountered on the internet.
It also appears to be dying on its feet.
I hope whoever is responsible gets it sorted out.
I cannot stomach Carmichael so I have no intention of listening to his pious peter, proclamations of his innocence.
More seriously he is a proven liar but parliament is apparently happy to have him as a member.
Ádám Gyurcsó ?
As long as we’re not looking to sign Ádám Charlie.