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Wasn’t interested.
4 points a minimum is that correct to progress?
OK not a night to remember but some great individual performances. We did well after they scored but this is the Champions League and away from home its never easy. I reckon the know alls, the mine shafters and the lurking Huns will have their moment now but I remain positive and proud of my team. Bring on Milan.
The only plus that I could see is that VVD is a class footballer. We will not keep him I fear.
Ouch we didn’t seem to turn up beyond our defence and got the result our performance deserved but as long as our players learn from tonight we can still progress COYBIG
Frustrating as it may be i ain’t giving up or resorting to abusing anyone/ players …. Tomorrow we will all STILL be Celtic thank The Lord for that nite nite
The worst collection of strikers I’ve seen in a long long time.
The only striker who looks like scoring is Balde in the odd 5 minutes that he gets. When was the last goal from a striker who averages more than 5 minutes per game ?
Our manager needs to start trusting more than the usual suspects.
So p’d off with the way we played up until they scored.
Seville67
Too many players who,s second touch is a tackle . And there fitness is needing stepped up. All is not lost .ac in two weeks we have to go for it .
I don’t buy thie ‘ajax are poor’ if they were in the spfl they would win it
It’s no a striker we need, granted we could do with one mind you.
It’s a quality midfielder, someone who can put his foot on the ball a make a killer pass.
Oh, and Lustig was my MoM.
HH
No point in getting excited about VVD he’ll be punted shortly
Frustrating that we didn’t start playing until going a goal down. Why didn’t Forrest work for the first 75 mins the wau he did the last 15? Why did Lenny persist for so long with Kris and leave Sammi on for the whole game when he was having no input whatsoever?
Positives? The whole defense and I thought Stokes did OK.
Fail marks to our manager this time round. This group can go any way from this point forward. Next game a must win again.
Another oppotunity to do something lost. Defenders played well but from midfield onwards we had nothing, no creativity and no finisher. Never won second balls and our passing was atrocious at times. Investment and quality is what we need.
So if we end up on the same points tally as Ajax, do they go through now?
I’m guessing they will, or do they go for total goals scored first, before the away goals?
classic ‘no striker’ game and the result the Board deserve…feel very disappointed
So I guess we are back to being the worst team in the world tonight?
A few not fully fit and it showed. We were not able to create enough and in a game of few chances they shaded it.
Forget a creative midfield – if we had a striker capable of playing up front on his own we could have snuck it tonight.
Watching that wasn’t easy.
Better bite ma tongue or I’ll sound like a mineshafter.
Performance only backed up my opinions of all in attacking positions.
P
Lost the midfield battle – lost the game. That could have been bloody embarrassing weren’t it for FF and VVD. Why Anto was taken off for Derk only NL knows. Derk touched the ball once I think. The other subs were brought on far far too late to change the game.
Not quite good enough on the night.
Sammy really poor .
Lustig my motm.
Best bit of football on the night brought the right result.
Pass marks to defence (especially Fraser and Virgil) and Kayal for effort but no performers in the up front positions.
We are coming up short this year.
Boerrigter seemed to hide when he came on. Doesn’t appear to have the confidence that he said he had when he showed up.
Disappointing. I thought KC, our brains in midfield, was not match fit.
Onwards and upwards.
We kept our worse display for this game and only woke up when we went behind.
Too many 50/50’s lost and where were Sammi and Commons when we really needed a performance?
For me Sammi’s been flat for a few weeks now.
Never mind..we’ll beat Milan.
HH
Truly awful performance all round – team selection again far too open
Very little cover for back four – yet very little from forwards and midfield players
Samaras Commons Stokes and Forest were very poor
Mulgrew struggled to stay on his feet at times
FF was suspect with his starting position and was lucky to get away with some of his judgement calls on balls coming in to his box
Ajax are not very good yet we conspired to lose to them
HH
And watching Efe play fitba is like watching someone disarm a bomb.
Oh and does wee provan think everyone has sleepy sickness
Hugely disappointing.
Feel we are still making the same mistakes away from home. Our attitude is so timid it’s ridiculous. Teams must love playing against us – they know we will sit back and do nothing for at least 40 minutes.
Ajax were under pressure tonight so said Neil. Well, why didn’t we give them anything to think about, why did we sit back?
Nonetheless, some positives. Izzy, Van Dyke, and Lustig were great. Definite CL class. I also thought Ambrose was superb.
Elsewhere though, we are seriously lacking at this level. Sammi has been a star so many times for us, but tonight he was simply dreadful. So too was Forrest. Commons was not fit.
Mulgrew bottled a tackle in the lead up to their goal and was poor all night. Derk and Pukki – thrown on with no real thought for what they were supposed to do it looks to me…
This group was maybe always going to be too much but I feel tonight was a real opportunity wasted. We desperately need a creative player in the middle, and a proper striker a la Hooper.
Finally, Davie Provan… I have watched many EPL games were teams have been really poor, and I have heard him raving and praising them for 90 minutes. Tonight he was contemptuous about Celtic. He is the worst kind of pundit, a monotonous, vindictive nonentity who cannot stand watching Celtic succeed.
Jimtim
agree -we need to improve fitness – we can’t sustain a pressing game thus giving them too much time on the ball and most of the celtic players can trap the ball further than i can kick it
One would have thought that Boerrigter would have been right up for it tonight
He was on for ten mins plus and did F all
Kevinlasvegas
I’m afraid you are correct , penny pinching has been our undoing .
Lack of quality buys ( except Virgil)and we pay the price.
The boards typical frugalness in the summer transfer window has come home to roost.
Worst Euro performance for a while.
However, when there’s a will…….
We often look better once we go behind.
Seeing FF had to blast the ball upfield, it would have been better having Balde up the middle rather than Stokes. Not maybe the match for Anto – he might have made a good sub to bring on.
Ii would have hooked Sammi – that was his Sammi-est performance for a long time and it was obvious early on.
Jamesie did well plus Kayal. No problem with the back 4 either.
Poor old Charlie – he did his best and didn’t let us down but I wish Santa would just give him a bit of pace.
Much as I thought.
Its OK to play for a draw but there has to be a threat as well. Away in Europe we rarely have any structured threat.
Although criticisms of GS, JF, KC & AS are justified too many times in possession they were on their own with no support from forward colleagues or our apparently invisible midfield.
Can understand fear of getting a doing but if you’ve lost 24 out of 26 away CL group games, why keep doing it?
It is also true that as a team we were rank!
Auldheid
At least we agree on something….Lustig
HH
TET
Yup Lustig worked his sox off.
Well done PL.
When are FF, VVD and Efe being punted??
To think that Spurs were in for Forrest and Man U linked with Kayal…. Holy shit
Poor performance lacking in imagination, Sammy who can be inspirational on these nights had his worst game that I can remember. Although subs did very little unfair to criticise on the time they had on the park, I don’t think I have ever seen so many pass backs to our keeper in one game.
we’ll beat Milan..(?)…hmmm…. we’ll need to put in a much better performance than we did tonight.
Ajax deserved their win.
The composure we showed away in Milan seems to have deserted us.
Hope everyone gets home safely – night all.