That was nowhere near the level that has preceded it
It was arguably better than Lille away in that we continued to attack and threaten in the second half BUT…………
We do away with all our good work by being so soft
I am encouraged that we are playing much better offensively but there are so many decisions to make about the defence
stebhoy on
unfortunately we can’t fix the defense until January – UNLESS he plays ralston or welsh. Our keeper is just not good enough for this level
expat_celt on
In the last 5 minutes of the match there, the Milan defence play a long pass up upfield out wide and suddenly makes it 3 vs 3. Our wing backs are caught upfield because of dilly-dallying between the forwards and midfield trying to possess ball in final third – this sums up our tactics under NL – nothing has changed. We will always score goals but with this possession football philosophy in the final third involving 7 midfield players we are wide open to counter attacks.
geebee1978 on
Sorry, but I can’t get as excited as some on here about tonight. Yes, we scored two goals and yes we created chances.
But once Milan got back to 2-2 there was only going to be one winner. They looked like they could score at will and let’s not forget they made five changes tonight.
This was a weakened Milan who have beaten us quite comfortably a year after we completed the double over Lazio. Tonight wasn’t progress, it was evidence of how far we’ve fallen.
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on
It’s at times like these you realise the recruitment has been absolutely horrific.
The guys who have been there forever did Ok(ish).
danso_1888 on
neil knows who does not want to stay get rid of them in jan
TheLurkinTim on
BFS
A blanket insult…whatever floats yer goat
QF on
We will have to stop overloading defensive situations only to run into each other. McGregor guilty of blocking his own players for two if not three goals. Lack of confidence and composure sucks players to the ball like a St Martin’s Primary ash park game at playtime in the 70s.
Clink\o/ 3x3 on
A few questions for all those slagging off the result tonight.
.
Which was the last Celtic team to go to the San Siro as favourites.
Did they win.
Has any result there had any noticeable effect on domestic results or even on domestic expectations
geebee1978 on
DANSO_1888 on 3RD DECEMBER 2020 7:53 PM
neil knows who does not want to stay get rid of them in jan
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But he still picks them every week.
RC on
anybody that thinks that Ajer is a defender is living in cloud cuckoo land , if AC want him just leave him in Milan good riddance .
add Elhamed never a defender also
IniquitousIV on
Lille knock out Sparta in last 10 minutes, so don’t need to beat us now. Will probably send a reserve team. And probably won’t make any difference to the result.
spikeysauldman on
before hot smoked gets all hot and bothered, i never boo at the games, I never leave leave before half-time, the blog is a place to write done your thoughts, otherwise, the comments page would be empty or would be 20 or so folk typing COYBIG repeatedly.
That said, do we have any players who started that game who we’d like/or expect to be in the starting 11 this time next season. I cant think of 1. The supposed decent players and loanees will be for the off. Broonie will have hung up his boots and the rest are squad players at best.
Greenpinata on
Hypothetical situation:
If the two goalkeepers were reversed tonight, what do you think the score could have been.
Sometimes you get good players, they just need to find the right club.
HH to all.
Turkeybhoy on
Well,take a bow wee Jeremy.What a performance.Great skill,amazing energy,if you could improve that final ball abit,they would be queuing up for you.Great effort tonight,difference Milan never missed a chance we did.Outplayed them for long spells,and in his too brief cameo,what’s not to like about Soro.
Take this into the more important game on Sunday,and we win.
Uncle Jimmy on
That was undoubtedly better
We undoubtedly still have major issues
There is potential there
Think I maybe flaked out second half, so my opinions are half right at best
!!Bada Bing!! on
Time for Soro,Turnbull and Welsh to get a run
peterbhoy on
thought the overall performance was better than of late,but F me that defence need a lot of training on how to
fecking tackle ,defend as a unit ,the basics,are we sure theyre internationals? ‘cos they sure as hell don’t look like it
danso_1888 on
1 point really bad if we had been told that at the start would have laughed at them think about it 1 point ffs
st tams on
I think the criticism of Barkas is way over the top. Frimpong just runs with his head down and creates absolutely nothing.
Also thought Laxalt had a very poor game
vinniethedog on
Thought tonight was a vast improvement…. But I’ve said it a hundred times…. If you don’t have a keeper you’ll win feck all.
79caps on
I want a new manager asap but the players can’t be accused of not trying tonight (and even Neil was a bit animated). A lot of good pressing and some good play but only as far as the penalty box, against a team of CL quality. Some good moves broke down with Rogic who should have been substituted much earlier. Elhamed’s defending was very poor. Laxalt – is he really better than Taylor? Bitton was good. Frimpong excellent, that’s where he should be played. This bhoy should not get so much criticism, at 19 he was our best player tonight.
The keeper? Hmm. It was never explained why Craig Gordon was dropped by BR after he had been our only good player in the defeat at Ibrox. Not keeping him now looks like a terrible mistake.
Ray Singh-Carr on
Can’t help feeling that we should have been resting players for the SPFL match this sunday. We could have got some miles into the legs of the fringe players and freshened up the first picks. 10IAR is our main goal now, has been for a while.
If we can go on a run throughout December and hang in there then come January we can regroup and get in some defenders.
For me it is still game on in the League, but we are not helping ourselves by exhausting our stronger players.
More poor decision making by the management, and further evidence of how dangerously out of touch the thinking is.
dessybhoy on
Good attacking segments and competed in midfield, defence excluding Laxalt who dug in against a diving bampot is useless utterly useless, the goalkeeper saves nothing, Hatem is a cart horse with no left foot Ayer and Bitton will never do in there, Christie sold the first goal with a stupid dive in and the keeper is just shocking we need a new keeper or 2, 3 defenders around the scorer for the second he gets a shot off, 3 could have tackled the winger at the third and poor again at the 4th with ayer running away from the player.
We have no defence no lack of effort but no defenders other than Laxalt.
Turkeybhoy on
Greenpinta,
Silly question.You could say that about every game.Any player.Not at fault for any of the goals.
jackiemac on
ignore the troll bhoys
prestonpans bhoys on
RC
Would put him where his skill set is midfield, this CH is a nonsense
BBC still happy with no live commentary from Zombies given what they are paying into Scottish Football
DeniaBhoy on
Ajer, as a raw talent, could have been coached into being a decent CH. He was a work-in-progress under BR, he has regressed since his departure. Just as Calmac, Christie, Griff and Brown have.
Can anyone name one single player who has improved under Lenny’s mngmt?
The Lazio game was the only one we have won in Italy
They are also not one of the traditional top 4 teams in Serie A in the past 20 years whereas Milan are
In the end 4:2 looks like our usual losing performance away from home but anyone watching without an agenda knows that was a much better performance tonight
But it was no corner turned and defensive issues are still huge
But it was the start of an improvement
big wavy on
There’s a team in there somewhere. Let a competent management team work with them.
Turkeybhoy on
Tell you another thing.No difference between Laxsalt and Taylor.Certainly nowhere near a 7 million gap.But he is foreign,and Taylor played for Killie.
Hot Smoked on
“SPIKEYSAULDMAN on 3RD DECEMBER 2020 7:56 PM
before hot smoked gets all hot and bothered”
Hot (smoked ) and bothered? Moi? Cool Hand Luke is based on me :-))
st tams on
TURKEYBHOY
Agreed re. Taylor
TheLurkinTim on
JACKIEMAC…what trolls lol
Tontine Tim on
Garcia Lorca 5:34 pm, the last time that I recall us wearing the shamrock strip was in a quarter final game against killie who played in a Hun like blue strip. We won 3-2 although the score line flattered them. This would be oul Jimmy’s last game as Jock would takeover in the Monday after his hibbee team knocked deidco out of the same cup.
Seemingly it was Jock’s idea tae dump that strip.
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That was nowhere near the level that has preceded it
It was arguably better than Lille away in that we continued to attack and threaten in the second half BUT…………
We do away with all our good work by being so soft
I am encouraged that we are playing much better offensively but there are so many decisions to make about the defence
unfortunately we can’t fix the defense until January – UNLESS he plays ralston or welsh. Our keeper is just not good enough for this level
In the last 5 minutes of the match there, the Milan defence play a long pass up upfield out wide and suddenly makes it 3 vs 3. Our wing backs are caught upfield because of dilly-dallying between the forwards and midfield trying to possess ball in final third – this sums up our tactics under NL – nothing has changed. We will always score goals but with this possession football philosophy in the final third involving 7 midfield players we are wide open to counter attacks.
Sorry, but I can’t get as excited as some on here about tonight. Yes, we scored two goals and yes we created chances.
But once Milan got back to 2-2 there was only going to be one winner. They looked like they could score at will and let’s not forget they made five changes tonight.
This was a weakened Milan who have beaten us quite comfortably a year after we completed the double over Lazio. Tonight wasn’t progress, it was evidence of how far we’ve fallen.
It’s at times like these you realise the recruitment has been absolutely horrific.
The guys who have been there forever did Ok(ish).
neil knows who does not want to stay get rid of them in jan
BFS
A blanket insult…whatever floats yer goat
We will have to stop overloading defensive situations only to run into each other. McGregor guilty of blocking his own players for two if not three goals. Lack of confidence and composure sucks players to the ball like a St Martin’s Primary ash park game at playtime in the 70s.
A few questions for all those slagging off the result tonight.
.
Which was the last Celtic team to go to the San Siro as favourites.
Did they win.
Has any result there had any noticeable effect on domestic results or even on domestic expectations
DANSO_1888 on 3RD DECEMBER 2020 7:53 PM
neil knows who does not want to stay get rid of them in jan
————————————————————————————-
But he still picks them every week.
anybody that thinks that Ajer is a defender is living in cloud cuckoo land , if AC want him just leave him in Milan good riddance .
add Elhamed never a defender also
Lille knock out Sparta in last 10 minutes, so don’t need to beat us now. Will probably send a reserve team. And probably won’t make any difference to the result.
before hot smoked gets all hot and bothered, i never boo at the games, I never leave leave before half-time, the blog is a place to write done your thoughts, otherwise, the comments page would be empty or would be 20 or so folk typing COYBIG repeatedly.
That said, do we have any players who started that game who we’d like/or expect to be in the starting 11 this time next season. I cant think of 1. The supposed decent players and loanees will be for the off. Broonie will have hung up his boots and the rest are squad players at best.
Hypothetical situation:
If the two goalkeepers were reversed tonight, what do you think the score could have been.
Sometimes you get good players, they just need to find the right club.
HH to all.
Well,take a bow wee Jeremy.What a performance.Great skill,amazing energy,if you could improve that final ball abit,they would be queuing up for you.Great effort tonight,difference Milan never missed a chance we did.Outplayed them for long spells,and in his too brief cameo,what’s not to like about Soro.
Take this into the more important game on Sunday,and we win.
That was undoubtedly better
We undoubtedly still have major issues
There is potential there
Think I maybe flaked out second half, so my opinions are half right at best
Time for Soro,Turnbull and Welsh to get a run
thought the overall performance was better than of late,but F me that defence need a lot of training on how to
fecking tackle ,defend as a unit ,the basics,are we sure theyre internationals? ‘cos they sure as hell don’t look like it
1 point really bad if we had been told that at the start would have laughed at them think about it 1 point ffs
I think the criticism of Barkas is way over the top. Frimpong just runs with his head down and creates absolutely nothing.
Also thought Laxalt had a very poor game
Thought tonight was a vast improvement…. But I’ve said it a hundred times…. If you don’t have a keeper you’ll win feck all.
I want a new manager asap but the players can’t be accused of not trying tonight (and even Neil was a bit animated). A lot of good pressing and some good play but only as far as the penalty box, against a team of CL quality. Some good moves broke down with Rogic who should have been substituted much earlier. Elhamed’s defending was very poor. Laxalt – is he really better than Taylor? Bitton was good. Frimpong excellent, that’s where he should be played. This bhoy should not get so much criticism, at 19 he was our best player tonight.
The keeper? Hmm. It was never explained why Craig Gordon was dropped by BR after he had been our only good player in the defeat at Ibrox. Not keeping him now looks like a terrible mistake.
Can’t help feeling that we should have been resting players for the SPFL match this sunday. We could have got some miles into the legs of the fringe players and freshened up the first picks. 10IAR is our main goal now, has been for a while.
If we can go on a run throughout December and hang in there then come January we can regroup and get in some defenders.
For me it is still game on in the League, but we are not helping ourselves by exhausting our stronger players.
More poor decision making by the management, and further evidence of how dangerously out of touch the thinking is.
Good attacking segments and competed in midfield, defence excluding Laxalt who dug in against a diving bampot is useless utterly useless, the goalkeeper saves nothing, Hatem is a cart horse with no left foot Ayer and Bitton will never do in there, Christie sold the first goal with a stupid dive in and the keeper is just shocking we need a new keeper or 2, 3 defenders around the scorer for the second he gets a shot off, 3 could have tackled the winger at the third and poor again at the 4th with ayer running away from the player.
We have no defence no lack of effort but no defenders other than Laxalt.
Greenpinta,
Silly question.You could say that about every game.Any player.Not at fault for any of the goals.
ignore the troll bhoys
RC
Would put him where his skill set is midfield, this CH is a nonsense
BBC still happy with no live commentary from Zombies given what they are paying into Scottish Football
Ajer, as a raw talent, could have been coached into being a decent CH. He was a work-in-progress under BR, he has regressed since his departure. Just as Calmac, Christie, Griff and Brown have.
Can anyone name one single player who has improved under Lenny’s mngmt?
After that, I feel better than I did on Sunday but that’s about it.
Here’s hoping we find someone who knows how to tackle.
I meant to add N’tcham, Rogic and Bitton to that list of players who have regressed.
The Lazio game was the only one we have won in Italy
They are also not one of the traditional top 4 teams in Serie A in the past 20 years whereas Milan are
In the end 4:2 looks like our usual losing performance away from home but anyone watching without an agenda knows that was a much better performance tonight
But it was no corner turned and defensive issues are still huge
But it was the start of an improvement
There’s a team in there somewhere. Let a competent management team work with them.
Tell you another thing.No difference between Laxsalt and Taylor.Certainly nowhere near a 7 million gap.But he is foreign,and Taylor played for Killie.
“SPIKEYSAULDMAN on 3RD DECEMBER 2020 7:56 PM
before hot smoked gets all hot and bothered”
Hot (smoked ) and bothered? Moi? Cool Hand Luke is based on me :-))
TURKEYBHOY
Agreed re. Taylor
JACKIEMAC…what trolls lol
Garcia Lorca 5:34 pm, the last time that I recall us wearing the shamrock strip was in a quarter final game against killie who played in a Hun like blue strip. We won 3-2 although the score line flattered them. This would be oul Jimmy’s last game as Jock would takeover in the Monday after his hibbee team knocked deidco out of the same cup.
Seemingly it was Jock’s idea tae dump that strip.