For so many years, games at Celtic Park have resembled a siege against a nine man visiting defence. Not so this season. Hibs and (especially) Falkirk made a go of it in the League Cup. Hearts competed and made us sweat until very late. The wins against Newco and Slovan Bratislava were quite joyful, but Aberdeen took it up a notch yesterday.
Celtic played well enough to win the game and after dazzling first half performances from Arne Engels, Kyogo and Reo Hatate, looked to be out of sight. When you face an onslaught like Aberdeen did during the closing 20 minutes of that period, all you can do it hang in until you find a way out of it, which they managed to do.
The second half was a procession of Celtic mistakes which offered the visitors hope. Maeda, Valle, Schmeichel, Trusty and McGregor were all culpable. It looked like the team emerged from the dressing room at halftime with a ‘job done’ mindset. I am sure this will be disputed, but there was definitely something amiss. Aberdeen’s robust approach to fouling in the middle of the park also broke our tempo.
By the time Aberdeen ‘scored’ what looked like a goal to put them in the lead, we all knew that the faux words we exchanged last week about this being a match between the title contenders were true. Over the summer months, Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin has achieved a remarkable feat. The stats say they only had 24% possession, but if Celtic scored what would have been a deserved late winner, it would have been harsh on the visitors.
We’ll talk about what happened to change a game from a comfortable looking win into a knife-edge encounter tomorrow. Hint: Thelin watched us in Dortmund and found a vulnerability.
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we wuz cheatedwe
Yesterday was a decent game of football unlike the pish sky are showing right now!
We’re repeatedly losing goals straight down the centre. It’s a pretty obvious pattern now.
A game that got away from us and on reflection will either feel like the draw it was, or, a defeat, dependent on what happens in Kilmarnock.
Give Aberdeen and their manager credit, they changed at half-time – they had no choice as they were not in the game, no change and it could have been five, or, six nil.
I have no complaints overall in the refereeing, or VAR; if we had applied ourselves better after the break it may have ended in an easy win.
Paul writes, “We’ll talk about what happened to change a game from a comfortable looking win into a knife-edge encounter tomorrow. Hint: Thelin watched us in Dortmund and found a vulnerability.” – got to agree we can be vulnerable when teams take the game to us.
We’ve needed required a defensive midfield mate for Calmac for while seen many come and go I hope one the current crop starting next week is capable our captain plays 100+ mins every game and needs help.
We were nervy slow in defence the start of the second half and gifted the gutsy Dons 2 goals and spurned our set plays and clear opportunities and had a good goal wrongly dissallowed so time to reset.
McCrorie having trouble with sunshine….would be helpful if he wore a cap….perhaps,borrow one from of the assembled mob behind him.
Another 45 minutes to add to the question- “Have you ever seen any good football on a plastic pitch?”
Banner at Rugby Park reads- “ The mismanagement of Rangers must stop and stop now”- well – it’s only been going on for 12 years – you think they might give them one more half of football before demanding an immediate cessation of the nonsense.
Fans in the away end at Rugby Park have just unfurled two large banners.
They read: ‘The mismanagement of Rangers must stop and stop now’.
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😂😂😂😂😂😂
Start of the 2nd half our midfield seemed to lose the appetite to press and we seemed to go down a gear or two. As good as the ball through for their first was, it was bad from our side. When our intensity drops we tend to play “safe” balls back/inside but when we are slack with them we are easily caught out as we’ve usually a FB or two inverted and have made a lot of runs ahead of the ball so we are wide open.
Having watched the Sportscene highlights I can’t find any fault with VAR for the FK on the edge or Duk clearance off the line. Still not sure how he has done it and it looked like a handball at the match given the left arm movement backwards after the ball comes off him but on one angle I saw his arm was clear from his body and the ball came in and bounced out with a clear gap between body and arm where I would have seen the ball had there been contact with the arm. Looked like he perhaps got his knee/thigh in the way?
Onwards and sideways – next game as always the most important allegedly but 3 points from Motherwell next weekend more important to me, though I’d like to see a better showing than Dortmund for sure.
QB
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 20th October 2024 1:05 pm
Another 45 minutes to add to the question- “Have you ever seen any good football on a plastic pitch?”
Killie 0 – Celtic 5?
QB
Quadbhoy
I enjoyed the game and our goals but I still felt the quality of football was poor
This Sevco side will struggle to for second place on this form and style of play.
Balogun blessing himself before coming on
Indeed.
As I wrote yesterday, the game lived up to its box office billing and was great entertainment for the neutral. As a Celtic supporter there were too many Dortmund flashbacks in the second half for my liking.
I’m a great fan of the manager, but “we weren’t aggressive enough in our pressing “ will begin to wear a bit thin.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 20th October 2024 1:20 pm
“I enjoyed the game and our goals but I still felt the quality of football was poor”
Can’t recall so will take your word for it. Remember Idah having a good game and not looking like Bambi on ice and remembering the pressing, work ethic, cohesion in the team and the atmosphere more than I recall the football – but after much of last season I was happy with the game.
EasilyAmusedCSC
QB
Fred Colon on 20th October 2024 1:22 pm
Balogun blessing himself before coming on
Yet another sub praying before coming on.
https://x.com/celtic_now/status/1847691960544530753?t=j-DKzrP3bcQ_YRGckR0Qqw&s=19
https://x.com/p_bov1/status/1847751107663012011?t=K-b1Jqi6nJCw6EbQjT7FfA&s=19
Whenever a player passes the ball along the ground at Rugby Park it bobbles up and down all the way. The pitch is a nightmare.
Thankfully artificial surface are banned from the Premiership after this season.
Both versions of Rangers have been signing Catholics for decades. I’m amazed that in 2024 some Celtic supporters deem an Ibrox player blessing himself to be worthy of comment.
Despite the turgid fayre on offer, the Killie LB – Corrie Ndaba – is a powerful, tall Irish player with a decent touch and forward instinct.
Ex-Celtis Finlay and Deas doing OK in the Killie backline.
maestro et al
Can somebody point me to the rule in the IFAB Laws of the Game whereby if the ball plays off another part of the body before a handball offence it is not a handball offence.
Law 12.1 “……deliberately touches the ball with their hand/arm” – which is what Duk did no question
A couple of season card holders on our supporters club left at half-time yesterday to go to the pub.
Woohoo 1-0 Killie 😂
WHIOOOOT !
Killie!
Changed my mind- I’ve just seen a good goal at Rugby Park
Oh the Rangers are shite
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 20th October 2024 1:46 pm
Changed my mind- I’ve just seen a good goal at Rugby Park
Hopefully, in another two minutes it will be seen a a superb goal :-))
6 added minutes.Hold out and sicken them.
It’s juvenile to gloat I know.
Tee hee.
…..it was a superb goal !!!!
FT 1-0 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh the Rangers are 💩!
Oh the Rangers are 💩!
Oh the Rangers are 💩!
according to shortie, killie havew just beaten the old fimragain.
Well who would huv thunk it !!🤪😂😂😂🥳🥳
“quadrophenian on 20th October 2024 1:56 pm
It’s juvenile to gloat I know.”
In which case, I am still at school :-)
HS;
Around primary 3 here ;))
Clement must be wondering what he has to do to get his P45 handed to him. October is almost over
IF the Dons beat the Huns in a couple of weeks, then we really could be talking of a two horse race. Early days, I know, but a wee bit of gloating after a Huns defeat is, in my world, perfectly acceptable.
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