The most striking aspect of yesterday’s games came from Pittodrie and Tynecastle. Aberdeen scored twice in second half stoppage time to secure a home win over Fola Esch from Luxembourg (good grief). Hearts came from behind with the assistance of a penalty and an own goal to secure a narrow win over Estonians, Infonet.
Infonet finished fourth in the Estonian league last season, well below possible Celtic Champions League qualifier opponents, Flora, and will fancy their chances of knocking Hearts out.
None of this means that Aberdeen, Hearts of Celtic have an equal in Estonia or Luxembourg, but it’s a testament to how bizarre playing football before you have completed preseason is. Even very well-run clubs like Southampton, who were humbled a year ago by Erik Sviatchenko and his Midtjylland pals, can find themselves out of Europe before they realise they are in a competition.
Celtic are likely to be playing the Estonian champions in 11 or 12 days. If they overcome that they will face a vastly stiffer test in three weeks time.
Yesterday’s exercise in Slovenia will hopefully blow some cobwebs away but FC Flora are 17 games into their league season, that fact alone should give Brendan Rodgers plenty to consider. Aberdeen’s toils in particular disturbed me.
Many thanks to all who contributed to the fantastic raffle competition yesterday, you’ve raised £375 already. A reminder……
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
We have a £5-a-ticket raffle to win the chance to appear in your very own team photo, alongside the Celtic players and management at the preseason photocall for 2016-17.
You will then meet treble winning captain, Tom Boyd, who will give you a personal tour of Celtic Park.
Celtic will provide you with a strip, which you will retain, and you will receive your team photograph, framed and signed by the team, on a specially prepared mount.
Your donations go to Celtic FC Foundation, to support their work in Health, Equality, Learning and Poverty. The Foundation deliver often life-changing support and opportunities to children and adults in Scotland, Ireland, the rest of the UK and in many needy areas of the globe.
Buy your ticket at MyDonate here. You can enter as many times as you like, but only donations of £5 or higher will be entered into the raffle.
You. The team. The management. Getting your squad photo taken. And getting a strip!
You’ll have had worse days.
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Hopefully we’ll see one of Joe Ledleys now famous dance routines,well done Wales
They’ve done it ….incredible team spirit
Well done Wales,they cost me a few quid,
Goodnight Timland.
Hhhhhoooooorrrrraaaaahhhhh
Well done Wales !
Wales to score again. Some header that.
What a performance.
Hunderbirds, did you drink a can of 7 up in front of your flatmate?
You are right about Frank throwing up at half time in that game, he mentioned it in the papers (my dad bought them) the following day.
Frank , to many of us, made Charlie Nicholas in the 80/81 season.
Bravo Wales… I thoroughly enjoyed that game…
The Leicester of the Euros
F.T.
Wales deserved that – no mistake- not luck!
Qwality!
67HEAVEN .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I AM WEE OSCAR…… IPOX BELONGS TO THE CREDITORS
Beats the feck oot we hate Jimmy hill he’s a ….
ALMORE on 1ST JULY 2016 9:46 PM
O bummer ………hope you get something sorted
Wales will miss Ramsey…..thats a pity
HH
Stunning stuff
Congratulations to the Welsh.
Chwarae teg I Gymru. Twll dyn pob fcuking Saes…..
Absolutely fabulous!
Real men’s haircuts 3
Hair bear bunch 1
Well done Wales.Incredible .
What a performance by Wales, a throughly deserved win.
TEAM spirit
what unity in the Welsh camp
How did the welsh lose to england.
Well done Wales. They have a great chance of beating Portugal if they play like that.
Well done Wales.
Joe Allen just went out of our price range………..
The only team England could beat are in the semi finals…
Not be long till it’s mentioned straw clutching ..
Well done Wales
I bet big hartson starts greetin
Well done the Welsh.
Hope you get Iceland in the final.
I could be a little dyslexic, but did Sevko not score the clincher for Wales?
Nice huddle !
Saint Stivs says SACK THE BOARD on 1st July 2016 9:53 pm
How did the welsh lose to england.
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That’s the crazy thing, England were the better team in that game
DENA29…
Hope things are well, I’ll be in Dublin for the game with my son, he’s of drinking age now, hopefully catch up.HH
Bada…
Nobody puts wee Joe in the corner, even the huns liked that one, I’d love to see him in the hoops.
OK Joe steady on with the beardy men kissin
Announce Allen.
Chris Coleman is a very humble man
Is Adam Matthews in the squad ?
Who has WALES in the CQN sweepstake?
Need a clue?
Yabba DABA doo.
SIPSINI on 1ST JULY 2016 9:55 PM
wont make Dublin unfortunately first home game hopefully
HH
Matthews never made the squad
Well deserved victory for Wales.
Fantastic!
CLUNKS on 1ST JULY 2016 9:54 PM
Joe Allen just went out of our price range………..
Joe Allen wasn’t in our price range before this game, this tournament, but if he wants to come and play with BR again, and he tells Liverpool that’s what he’s going to wait for, then they will need to drop the price as he only has a year on his contract. He can sit tight and they get nothing.