It’s always dangerous to welcome news that an opponent will be without an automatic first choice player – think back to last month, when news of Leigh Griffiths’ injury broke, forcing Brendan Rodgers into playing Moussa Dembele against Newco. Well-resourced teams have strong squads, but for every Dembele waiting in the wings, there are a dozen or more Pukkis.
So while news that Borussia Monchengladbach are likely to be without striker, Raffael, winger, Thorgan Hazard and central defender, Andreas Christensen, is encouraging, it’s no more than that. It’s little more than Celtic replacing Roberts, Griffiths and Sviatchenko (three nailed-on starters at the beginning of the season) with Forrest, Dembele and Simunovic.
The absences will have no impact on Brendan Rodgers game planning, but it might play on the mind of Gladbach manager, Andre Schubert, who is dealing with the first run of sustained disappointing results since he was promoted from Gladbach reserve coach last season.
Manchester City looked vastly more accomplished than Gladbach when they met in the opening group game, so the draw City took at Celtic Park, and the manner in which they were forced to fight for it, is likely to convince Schubert that a point would be a good result for his team.
A draw would be an inconclusive result for both teams chances of finishing above the other, but a win for either team would be the most important result of the group.
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The pair will be raffled together, to enter, email the address below with the correct spelling of Monchengladbach (clue, this is not a trick question).
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The last competition winner made a donation. It was a coincidence. Honest…….
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new article posted.
As I have mentioned on here before,I was at the 7-1 game,but too young to really take it in at the time.I remember the party in Govan that night though with all my relatives crammed into my Fathers sisters room and kitchen.Went on all night.
Oh,my birthday today,so not a bad day to be born on.Think I might have been taken to the game for my birthday.I was 6.
SOUTHOFTUNIS
You should have told him you knew the time,but not the Celtic score.
You had a watch but not a tranny. As it wasn’t that type of club.
(Was it?)
Days like today are why CQN is so enjoyable.
Great Celtic talk, then pride reading about Hampden in the sun, then tears of happiness reading the brilliant article on Johnny Doyle.
Where any of you at the Ayr 2 Celtic 1 game? when Johnny was sent off for hitting the ref in the face when crossing the ball.
I was at that one. I travelled on the football special, I think I was 13/14, for the one and only time. If I recall properly it was early in the season, we got off the train at Ayr, it was sunny, by the time we arrived at the ground we were seriously soaked through, one of those proper seaside rainfalls. I think we went one up then it all went pear shaped, 2.1 Ayr, then Johnny unbelievably sent off. The behaviour of our fans coming home on the train was disappointing, hence why I never went back on the train. Today they would have been arrested at 5.00 locked up for the weekend and then realised on 10,000 quid bail.
Hail Hail
FAVOURITE UNCLE on 19TH OCTOBER 2016 12:18 PM
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 19TH OCTOBER 2016 11:44 AM
was it you that posted a few years ago about playing against ST CATHERINE’S balornock at COWLAIRS????theiir manager had a tranny on listening to game.
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Correct. Thanks for remembering the post.
Most of our team played left back for the second half, in close proximity to the aforementioned tranny carrier.
We got beat 13-0.
Bobby M,
The Big Yin was always worth listening to and I couldn’t help admiring his wind-swept and interesting locks.
I was at the game when Johnny D got sent off, still to this day I cant believe that it happened.
Shocking decision imho.
H.H and 3 V 1 win tonight please.