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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On the anniversary of Betty Lawwell
Mass celebrated today 🙏
HH
i really enjoyed that yesterday (when the link to Red TV stayed up), I thought we were fortunate to be 2 ahead at half time and the Aberdeen recovery was deserved.
The back 4 scare me shitless though. Big gaps, playing offside with no pressure on the passer, FBs not tucking in etc etc. Basic stuff.
Atalanta won’t be as direct as Dortmund or Aberdeen but I would still go for this formation (assuming CCV and Taylor don’t make it)
Schmeichel
Johnston Trusty Scales Valle
Bernardo McGregor
Kuhn Engels Hatate
Kyogo
“i really enjoyed that yesterday”
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going by the rest of your post im not so sure you did!
PS
started watching Rivals on Disney last night, great laugh. I try to spot every 80s tune within a bar.
i didnt either to be honest!
good game, but we didnt win so i cant say i really enjoyed it!
clunks- been saying same for months, Maeda first name on team sheet
Why does Maeda get such an easy time of it ?.He stunk the place out on Saturday.His blind pass into midfield,which resulted in the equaliser,who the fek the pass was meant for,who knows,was bad enough,but his leisurely jog back after his fek up was shocking.For our second goal,he was in acres of space,loads of time,and hit it straight to a Dons player,who thankfully,made an arse of it.
Many, every week,pick out players who they think were poor,Engels,Hatate,Taylor,Idah,Palma,etc.Maeda,is,it seems ,exempt from any poor comments.
He has improved,but has his fair share of poor games.
Take off the blinkers.
Thank everyone for their kind wishes, really appreciated
KINGlUbO
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c0jw3qd670et
TB
Last few games going back to Dortmund he has been poor
I suggest he gets his head shaved again.
I think with payers like him, you have to take the rough with the smooth and accept a % of poorer games
As when he is on it??
He is well and truly on it
I am not on very often but haven’t seen BRRB posting for a wee while!
Hope he is ok!
PhilBhoy: He’s fine. Met him yesterday. He’ll be back soon telling us what fine establishment he’ll be in.
It happens with all our flair players; Kyogo, Hatate, Khun, Forrest, Oreilly was another (engels will hit a rut soon enough) and goes as far back as I can remember, McGeady being a prime example.
Right now we are playing so many games, 3 a week till the end of January and that type of schedule combined with a shortened summer break and players flying half the world away and back for internationals, means flair players in particular tend to ebb and flow
Maeda will come good, I have no doubt
ALMORE
Cheers buddy!
Hope you are good too!
Superbru Round 8 Update
On a weekend of difficult to predict matches and low scores, all but one of us managed to get points in the range of 1 to 5.5. It produced a table dominated by those who predicted some doom for Sevco in Kilmarnock. Only one of us (Big Archie) forecast the draw at Celtic Park but 3 posters got the exact score at Killie (Jobo, fitbabhoy & Mrs. Token Tim) with a further 9 predicting a Killie win.
So, our top performers this week are:-
Jobo Baldie- 5.5 pts
2= Garry Postecoglou, Mouldy67 & Chalmersbhoy- all on 5 points.
5 The Token Tim (aka Julie)- 4.5 pts
A whole wheen of eejits- 18 in total – managed to acquire a single solitary point, making Filip Flop jealous, but their complete hopelessness was outdone by this week’s Superbru Belgian- Neilbhoy who managed to avoid scoring at all despite predicting for al 6 matches.
This leaves the top of the Leaderboard as:-
The Token Tim- 64 pts (we’d be considering a Steward’s enquiry for doping offences were it not so obvious that he has just let his wife make the picks this year)
Gaz- 62.5 pts
Leggy- 57 pts
And…. continuing their miserable points collection effortlessly, we have-
68th- maccargo- 32.5 pts
69th- Jonny the Tim- 31 pts
70th- BelmontBrian63- 30 pts (will he ever actually reach 63 pts?)
Our next deadline is Sat. 26th October when we have three matches kicking off at 3pm before we have 3 intriguing Sunday matches- an Embra Derby at Easter Road at Noon, followed by Celtic visiting Motherwell at 3pm and the Chick Young Conflicted Derby between Sevco and St. Mirren at 3 pm too.
Those of you looking to improve your standings in the Table could consider the approach of our current leader and ask your wife, partner or pet dug for tips.
PhilBhoy: I am, thanks. Best wishes to you too.
“John Lundstram has branded Robby McCrorie a MUPPET after celebrating victory over his old club online.”
I’m pretty sure the sky coverage said the boy hadn’t even played double figures for the huns, hardly loyalty material….
SFTB
Maybe not 63, however I predicted ‘that mob’ would get beat today, therefore, I’ll wallow in that personal glory.💚🍀🍻🏴☠️😂
Belmont Brian
That realist propelled you up to the heady heights of joint 13th place.
I didn’t think they would lose this time but I am so glad that they did.
The guy that supplies my specs is an ex-team-mate of mine and a bluenose. I might ask for an early annual check up, just for a catch up, mind
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 20TH OCTOBER 2024 8:17 PM
“John Lundstram has branded Robby McCrorie a MUPPET after celebrating victory over his old club online.”
I’m pretty sure the sky coverage said the boy hadn’t even played double figures for the huns, hardly loyalty material….
*did he no get done several years back for singing sectarian songs when out partying one night, now that’s both him and his brother dumped, hell hath no fury like a hun scorned
Yesterday…..
AJ backed into the Aberdeen keeper. Ref was right to give the fk.
Aberdeen handball on their own goal line…..
Looked like a certain penalty. Except, the video from the south stand suggests that it didn’t hit his arm.
Today….
Suggestions that sevco will be looking for a new manager soon. They want a realrangersman apparently.
I’m hearing that Duncan Ferguson has already turned them down. He says that the financial situation of Inverness CT is much stronger than that of rangers….
Weeron
A Sunday editorial with the line “something was amiss”, then this:
https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/curious-case-of-brendan-rodgers-missing-in-action/
Snidey backstabbing helps no one unless you’re involved in politics.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s article 👍
Hint: Thelin watched us in Dortmund and found a vulnerability.
any long ball over the top and having us running towards or own goal we are in trouble.
THE BLOGGER @ 9.48
I read that article earlier and my thoughts were … why are there no names attributed to CQN articles?
Sad to see that article on CQN..
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on @9:48pm
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Somebody – somewhere – needs to ask a long list of questions of Brendan Rodgers.
Surely?
Ah might be wrong but are you suggesting that the Manager of Celtic FC should be above being questioned by anybody?
i apologise if I’ve got that wrong.
We are a football team – not a kult – kults are for horrible folk who need a hard boot in goolies.
Horrible folk like Krankie – and a media too terrified to question the wee kreep.
Where is the £11 million man? Marked out of the game by Aberdeen’s new manager?
Or, was the new Dons boss merely replicating the marking system deployed by the last Dons manager @ SCSF last season, which saw both Matt O’Riley and Reo Hatate marked out of the majority of the game ditto the 4 wingers which were used and we got through on penalties?
And the Dons marking and counter attacking system was deployed in 2nd half yesterday – AND – we had no answers!!!???
This new containment game has been used by some teams against us and made us look like SPFL level.
Biggest problem seems to be Manager’s who are incapable of learning lessons, both Ange and Brendan – why can’t they learn and improvise?
Dons boss learned at half time yesterday – ripped up his script – wrote out a new script – and Brendan was caught cold – with no answers!!!!????
Joe – “‘Biggest problem seems to be Manager’s who are incapable of learning lessons, both Ange and Brendan – why can’t they learn and improvise?“
Because they can walk the league in in Scotland and hope for a fluke in the the CL to get noticed in England.
Paul is spot on when comparing them to Gordon Strachan and Neil Lennon.
Neither had a hope of managing in the EPL so they dropped the ego/agenda and set out to do the best with what they had.
Re. yesterday, I’m on record as saying there were too many Dortmund flashbacks in that second half for my liking and the manager’s response to being sliced apart (we weren’t aggressive enough in our press) will quickly wear thin.
Joe,
Somebody – somewhere – needs to ask a long list of questions:
1) How much weed do you smoke?
2) Do you ever get any pleasure watching Celtic?
3) Do you ever get any pleasure?
4) Do you ever check your posts before hitting the return button?
5) Do you ever post when Celtic win?
6) is your surname Kelly, White or Galloway?
The more teams like aberdeen and falkirk come at us, press us hard and make us fail in moments domestically
The better we will be prepared for europe
It’s got to be goood for our development
And for the teams that do it well to us
we dont get exposed like that enough in scotland
From Jobo Baldie
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2024-25*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #12 CELTIC 2 ABERDEEN 2 (HATATE, KYOGO)*
Good evening, friends.
A 3.00pm Saturday home game involving 2 teams with perfect records after 7 games; never happened before!. Mild temperatures for mid October and the sun splitting the sky. What could possibly go wrong? Well, the 20 minutes between 4.10pm – 4.30pm rose to that challenge!
The opening exchanges indicated that Aberdeen were here to make a go of it, playing with 3 up front and trying to keep the game moving quickly but without really troubling our back line.
The first real excitement came after 12 minutes when the Dons keeper made a bit of a mess of clearing his lines. Engels from well out on the left managed to curl a powered shot towards goal only to find his effort striking the bar. Yip, he just didn’t get the right engle!
10 minutes later and we opened the scoring. Engels’ forward pass into space initially looked as if it had been hit too hard. But Kyogo turned on the burners, chased it down and then laid a fine cross field pass onto his onrushing countryman and Hatate dispatched it beautifully into the net.
4 minutes later and Celtic doubled their lead. Quick feet from McGregor saw us work the ball down the left. The pass into the box should have been cleared by the defender but he sheepishly presented it straight to Reo. The resultant shot was blocked but Kyogo reacted quickest to put Celtic 2 up and seemingly in easy street.
Half time saw most folk acknowledging that Aberdeen hadn’t really created any chances and that one more goal should seal the points. Unfortunately, the next 3 times that the ball entered the net it was into Kaspar’s goal. On 49 minutes Aberdeen exploited our high line with Sokler winning the neck and neck race with Scales to get Aberdeen back into the game. 10 minutes later a very slack pass by the rather subdued Maeda gifted Aberdeen a chance and this time the deflected shot saw the Dons level. And on 70 minutes, our worst fears were realised when a stramash in the box saw the players in red go wild, thinking As I did) that they had taken a 3-2 lead. Fortunately, and quite correctly, the goal was disallowed due to a handball by the scorer.
That decision brought a roar of encouragement from the whole stadium and from then on Celtic had most of the possession. Our reluctance to shoot from outside the box infuriated me although we still contrived to squander 2 or 3 decent chances to retake the lead. The 10 minutes of stoppage time was welcome, but it was all a bit huff and puff from Celtic by then and ultimately we had to settle for a share of the points.
So ultimately it was a weekend where the gap at the top remained the same, 12 goals. But at least we put further daylight between us and the 3rd placed team.
We have now played 12 games this season, winning 10, drawing 1 and losing 1. We have scored 38 and conceded 14 (domestically it’s 32-6 and in Europe it’s 6-8).
A bit of a drop in voting numbers this weekend (only the Dortmund was lower) but, as always, a big thank you to the 63 who took time to vote.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Schmeichel: 0
Johnston: 13
Trusty*: 4
Scales*: 47
Valle: 23
McGregor*: 12
Engels: 1
Hatate: 32
Kuhn: 7
Kyogo: 25
Maeda: 1
Forrest: 1
Bernardo: 6
Idah: 0
McCowan: 17
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against Aberdeen are –
Scales – 5 points
Hatate – 4 points
Kyogo – 3 points
Valle – 2 points
McCowan – 1 point
And the overall positions after 12 games played are –
23 points – Kuhn
22 points – Scales
20 points – McGregor
19 points – Hatate and Maeda
15 points – Bernardo
12 points – Engels
8 points – Kyogo
7 points – O’Riley and Valle
6 points – Johnston A
5 points – Schmeichel and Taylor
4 points – Carter-Vickers and McCowan
3 points – Forrest and Idah
1 point – Yang
0 points – Holm, Johnston M., Nawrocki, Palma, Ralston, Trusty, Turley, Welsh
We now have another tough looking Champions League tie as we travel to Italy to face Atalanta on Wednesday evening, kick off 5.45pm. 3 more sleeps till I reposition the couch!
Hail Hail!
Turkeyboy
The league table above from jobo baldie is why maeda doesnt cop it too hard when he has an off game
23 points – Kuhn
22 points – Scales
20 points – McGregor
19 points – Hatate and Maeda
Joint 4th so far this year
AN DÚN on 20TH OCTOBER 2024 2:12 PM
The vulnerability is the absence of a defensive mid.
Anyway, it was far from a disaster after today’s result.
At this point, a thinking man would want the rangers to beat Aberdeen at Pittodrie.
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How we could do with Tomoki Iwata right now.
McInnes must have received bad news about one of his relatives just before end of the game today.
Looked pig sick at full time handshake.
No one told tonight’s Reporting Scotland there was a football match today.
Shame.
😗
The Duk handball to prevent the winning goal becoming clearer as more footage emerges.
Someone called this on Saturday night – Duk’s chest, stomach and thigh are at an angle between the goal line (call that 0°) and Johnston’s shot (c.80°)
If the ball hits any of those parts it still moves toward the goal line (albeit at a shallower angle)
The ball bounces back OUT after striking a part of his body moving forward.
His left arm is moving forward.
Former referee Bobby Madden chimed in on the game’s controversial moments, oddly stating that “VAR keeps Celtic top of the league” despite agreeing with the decision to disallow Aberdeen’s potential third goal.
Madden praised the officials for correctly judging the incidents. “A correct intervention to disallow Duk’s goal,”
Madden wrote. “Very difficult to see on the field and why VAR was introduced. Credit to the match officials for two decisions in the 100th minute.
Correctly identifying the foul as outside the penalty area as there were wild claims for a penalty. Further claims for a handball were correctly waved away for a goal-line clearance.”
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taken from a newsnow link
Bobby madden talking about “wild claims for a penalty” – he be hurting lol (and does it make me happy to hear it!!) – especially as his team couldn’t muster up the effort to get in the position for wild claims to have a material influence against the mini huns
Howevah, had they ventured into the killie penalty box enough I am sure one of them would have fallen over and induced a wild claim for a penalty that would have been given….
There be the difference in refereeing as well bobby (soon to be in the after dinner circuit) knows
Good Morning CQN.
Work beckons. 😒
But Celtic top of the league ☺️
… and only a couple of days until we get to watch them again. 🤗
Hope all on here have a good one.