It was an unfamiliar Celtic starting line-up at Pittodrie this afternoon which resulted in the visitors dropping league points for the first time in four months. Andre Blackman and Mikael Lustig made their Celtic debuts at left and right back respectively, while Charlie Mulgrew played central midfield alongside Joe Ledley.
Neither full back got forward as often as we are accustomed to see Celtic play, which perhaps contributed to the disjointed performance.
Charlie Mulgrew almost opened the scoring on 5 minutes when his swerving free kick rebounded back off the inside of Jason Brown’s far post in Celtic’s only genuine chance before the 28th minute goal. Mulgrew was key again in the move that counted, controlling a difficult ball before twisting his marker and knocking the ball forward to Kris Commons. Commons spun before playing a perfectly weighted pass into space inside the box for Anthony Stokes to run onto. Stokes first touch took the ball past Brown in the Aberdeen goal before he slotted his shot into the net.
Aberdeen were well out of the contest in the first half and had to wait until near the end of the half before they managed an attempt at goal, a Fyvie shot which was blocked. Then, only seconds from the break, a long ball forward to Fallon brought Aberdeen level. Fallon turned and his forward run drew Blackman, Wilson and Rogne, leaving the right back space unattended. Gavin Rae ran 70 yards to fill that space and fired a shot which was going narrowly wide before Blackman’s block bounced over Forster into the net.
A minute into the second half Ryan Jack almost reached a cross from the right as Aberdeen seemed to take encouragement from their goal.
Anthony Stokes looked Celtic’s best player but whenever he linked with strike partner, Gary Hooper, the ball invariably bounced out of play or to an Aberdeen player, most notably on the 55th minute when Hooper failed to control on the edge of the six yard box.
Aberdeen’s best chance to win the game arrived on 63 minutes when Meganson evaded Lustig but shot wide when clean through inside the box.
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we can still win in mordor
still need them to drop points in their game at d utd, for us to win league at bigotdome. think of the party at hampden on sunday 18th. if they’ve dropped points the day before knowing we’re going to mordor to wrap it up.
Hope this game is finished ,before I go out to 6.00 mass
David Begg nearly in tears, saying he wont mention songs then nearly joining in the hymns of hate.
then of course the mother of all partys on the 25th. woo hoo
Looking more like trips to Dingwall next season….
Ayr 1 – 0 Falkirk L
Livingston 2 – 2 Dundee L
Partick Thistle 2 – 0 Hamilton L
Raith Rovers 4 – 0 Morton L
Ross County 2 – 1 Queen of Sth
lennon’s passion
think so if dundee utd beat them on 17th then we can win week after if we win each game
Paul67, agree with you about our wing backs but you probably saw the same as me, Commons and Forrest kept getting in the way.
Thought our back 4 played well if Victor had been on from the start then we would have won easily.
Commons,Forrest,Hooper and Stokes apart from the goal were shocking, not helped of course by a terrible pitch.
Craig Thompson is a cheat,detest the swine. He kept stopping the play and allowing their strikers to lead into a jump with their elbows.
Hope we aviod the swine in our remaining cup games.
KTF
Of course we do all realise that this has only come about because there is an agenda against Rangers amongst the country’s refereeing fraternity don’t we?
At least that is what they are spewing on Fallow Fallow.
Listening to their match commentary………………….Priceless.
Loved that comment about Rangers being the gift that just keeps delivering!
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Orcs resorting to kicking all Hearts players. Some things do not change
Craig Burley anagram. Grue By Liar.
Now in added time – 4 mins to go
Sydney Tim,
seriously, you are listening to the wrong people. What forest fans say is irrelevant. Fans in France thought Lubo was past it. Henrik grew into the Celtic jersey.
In fact, ever heard what Aberdeen fans had to say about Charlie Mulgrew? Better still, what did CELTIC fans say when we signed Charlie? I was one myself, who thought he wouldn’t measure up.
But look at him now.
It is fine to have opinions, and prefer particular players. But writing off a Celtic player as you are doing with Wilson just doesn’t make sense. It will make it difficult for you to enjoy watching him play well.
lennons passion
If they lose next week then anything at Ibrox wins it for us, if they draw then a win at Ibrox is needed.
3 minutes to go tick tock
notafanofstan on 3 March, 2012 at 16:47 said:
David Begg nearly in tears, saying he wont mention songs then nearly joining in the hymns of hate.
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Beggs has been leaving messages on Twitter all week. He is a complete fruit cake in addition to being a total out and out hun.
Kevin … @ 16.38
CB is the last person I would want to lose points to.
He represents all that is wrong with Scottish football.
Well connected, schoolmaster type, big on organisation but nothing regarding skill / talent who patronises everyone but has his booster squad in place to big him up no matter what happens.
SFA Ludge / golf club / kid on middle class / CoS elder / big hypocrite …
He could / has started a war but he would not get criticised.
Missed oot the C there!
What this,fans walking out of ground.Am I missing something.
Did they play for the jerseys, or was it the money? Eh what money!!
Payback is a bast*rd isn’t it
David Begg IS Alan Partridge : ‘the red mist is descending in dollops’.
Ibrox is empty!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTq7Ni9-XZg
This is a plot by rangers to cost us money. They know our gates will be down for home league matches for April and May. They know what they are doing throwing away points like this!
Aidy the Tim on 3 March, 2012 at 16:50 said:
lennons passion
If they lose next week then anything at Ibrox wins it for us, if they draw then a win at Ibrox is needed.
exactly aidy, any kind of result for utd on the 17th & its on.
No matter who goes, half of them have now a ban due to totting up of yellow cards, davis for 1
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I see there is 3 or 4 of the honeys team not yet yellow carded.
Words will have to be had by their manager to see why they are not playing the rangers way…
Sir Minty, Craig Whyte, Crawford Allen our heroes just keep piling up!
We dont do walking away, we just go..lol
KLV
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Can we still win it at Ibrox? Don’t have time to figure it out, supposed to be working!! :-}
Sydney Tim you shame the term “supporter” when you are silent during the team’s great run and rush on here to slag players when there is a dropped point or two. Nae sense of proportion ya moanin’Minnie ye!
Given Aberdeens recent form, taking into account the international week, some players just not having a good day, a point away to Aberdeen is not a bad result.
Victor Wanyama is a great central midfield player, Charlie Mulgrew isn’t, he is however a fine LB and CH.
Neil did what he thought would work today, he’s shown before he can learn from his mistakes, he will again.
Onwards to one in a row. After the rules are applied over at ibroke how many will it be?
Rangers loose three in a row at home, good.
So our draw wasn’t too bad then!