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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Good Morning from a dry and calm North Staffs.
Hope I haven’t woken anyone
Kilmarnock take it up a notch at Rugby Park
There Paul; updated it for ya ;)
Mixed weekend of results Celtic drew and R2ngers lost.
So we ended the weekend a point further ahead of them than on Friday – I’d have taken that.
And Vale still top of the league- so overall pretty happy 😊
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D9COMEDY on 20th October 2024 11:06 pm
D9-Joe,
AT- ordinary RACIST has many monikers-418/419 RACISTS-PARK THE RACISTS are a few recent ones
D9-Somebody – somewhere – needs to ask a long list of questions:
AT – all questions regardless the multimonikered RACIST freak
D9 1) How much weed do you smoke?
I dare say the RACIST has done but he is more influenced by the conspiratorial writings of far shite group patriotic alternative who mushrooms during the darkness of covid.They are a RACIST collective who claim the white man is being overwhelmed by invasion of outside forces
D9-2) Do you ever get any pleasure watching Celtic?
ATRACIST JOE is stuck in a bubble regards Celtic,as his earliest multimoniker kevj to current RACISTgreat praise is heaped on MurdoMacleod,Maestro,press journos – Gerry Mc punchedinface(Nee) and the board for the young being ‘lifted o’er’,suggesting the wee lambs who knelt before Rapid and had constant attendance figure of 21,000 where Celtic fans whereas once their til-Dippin stopped in 94 Michael Kelly or Chris White have never been back to Celtic Park,maybe taking Celtic to within 11 minutes of being a memory is whether queue of people to spit on them is high in a certain demographic
D9-3) Do you ever get any pleasure?
AT – He does,posting on a forum of Celtic Football club,a club born out of genocide and the refugees about RACISM,plastic Paddy’s,posting of an invasion of Brown people,posting of the white man(him) being in a minority,a mantra Celtic fans have heard before when the RACIST suggested if they don’t like it ‘why don’t they go home’
His post under 418/9 on Anas Sarwar and Humza Yousef went into his insecure and ignorant core.it got banned,it got that racist moniker banned
D9-4) Do you ever check your posts before hitting the return button?
AT -nope,his posts end up in a confused patriotic alternative or some other spiv RACIST YouTube inspired RACISM.
D9-5) Do you ever post when Celtic win?
AT- the RACIST does
D9-6) is your surname Kelly, White or Galloway?
AT- The RACIST plays hovis music talking of Kelly and white omitting how they nearly ended Celtic
He is a fanatical Galloway Gobbleteer on here,accompanied by fellow Gobbleteer Darwin/JHB/CLOUD9/ANDRENA/Tommy
I “hae ma doots” tho if the grifter Galloway,who shared a platform with fascist farage and voted Tory in Scotland,would go to the RACIST depths joe has but all Gobbleteers on here in their many guises align themselves with the “stoap ra boats” “protect ra statyooz” RACISTS .
Refugees are welcome
Racism has no place at Celtic
Hail Hail D9
All this bigging up of Aberdeen for taking the game to celtic. They didn’t. They did exactly as every other team in the spl has done before them, defended with 10 men behind the ball. Their 2 goals &, the goal which was chalked off all came from serious defensive errors committed by celtic players & their sloppy play. Aberdeen are the Luckiest team in Scotland. Jimmy Thelin will know he is an extremely lucky manager. Lucky that he met celtic at a time that morale & confidence low. This may sound like a bitter ramble but it’s a fact
AT
Good to see you pist match on .Saturday.
HH
Sorry, post match.
I know you are a man of sober habits and have never seen you pist.
garygillespieshamstring
Likewise it was good seeing yourself too.
Met Iniquousitiv and Frodshambhoy from Sentinel Celts too along with leggy who was just after going through an op.A pleasure to meet Celts as usual at our spiritual home.
Roll on Wednesday
HH
Ps if you seen me on getting home with curry you assertions wouldn’t be out of kilter :-))
HH
BabbitysCsc
new article posted.
Aurora,
I agree.We totally dominated the first half.After the break,the had one great pass,and good finish.Then Maeda has one of his brain farts,ending in a deflected goal.After that we were all over them.
They were no better than Falkirk.Not going with this Media hysteria.Good luck to Aberdeen,especially next midweek,but they have long way to go.
no chance we’ll park the bus on Wednesday so I suppose it’ll be the same formation
scales trusty
calmac
engels hatate
could he be tempted to start Idah?
Big Bobo story good on this Open Goal episode with Danny Murphy
https://youtu.be/UcUNNoE0pjs?si=Dci-w_7Jd5swwX16