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Celtic to face Bayern or Realpublished at 22:02 Greenwich Mean Time
22:02 GMTBreaking BBC SPORT
FT: Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic
So, with that in mind, it’s confirmed…
Bayern Munich or Real Madrid for Celtic in the next round.
BURNLEY
I ddidn’t even know Cummings and Murray were in the CL registered squad . They haven’t even had the responsibility of facing Ross County or St Johnstone .
SAINT STIVIS
Yang played a simple pass in the build up to our first goal. What else did he do?
Also he could have played Tony Ralston before Dane Murray if he had to make a change there.
Still proud of the overall performance of the team. We need another winger, centre half and centre forward.
Some great play tonight. Engels, Kuhn and Idah did very well imo. Hatate stepped up as well.
The bench was always going to be our downfall as the game wore on.
The one frustration is that goal to make it 3-2. It’s so poor from our point of view. The fourth made no real difference so I’ll give Murray a bye.
On chances alone, I think we were fortunate to only lose 4-2. Villa, on another night, could have had 6 or 7.
Staying that, two defensive errors gifted Villa their 3rd and 4th goals.
Hot smoked
See my post 10.13.
Clearly says we can play signed players.
Later post was just confirming after seeing on telly. Not just my calcs.
Missed the game. Outcome I expected. We don’t have the defensive quality without CCV. We had nothing really to play for. Great campaign. No complaints from me.
AOW,
Yeah, every ref in the world is out to get us.
We shout out for foreign refs , when we get them we trash them
It was a magnificent game and the ref played his part.
Stop blaming refs for every single thing.
Our defeat had nothing to do with the referee.
We showed character and although we came up short in the end it was not the referees doing.
Cheers and HH.
I like this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTwiK8z2m_Y
The manager says just blame it on the “quality”.
We can’t compete on “quantity”.
Earn your feckin salary and adapt the tactics.
m
Brendan interview now
Says “Pride” is best word for how he feels.
TLWIO
As a pot 3 team we always need to play at our best to achieve anything.
This season we got tanked by Dortmund and given a lesson, we handed out the same lesson to Slovan Bratislava.
We are a big team in terms of global fan base playing in a peripheral European league. We cannot ever assume anything about games.
For me. Tonight we lost but we didn’t disgrace ourselves. If we face Real next so be it.
Interestingly, when asked, says Idah’s job is to get in between the posts, finished magnificently but has to get up to match fitness to press better.
At the start of the campaign, I would have grabbed our present position, but saying that, I think we dropped a few points in games we could have won.
Tonight I thought we showed great character, but fell short overall. No shame in the result, although 3-2 would have been fairer.
Great night to come for those fortunate enough to be in Paradise against Madrid or Milan.
Still on our way to the treble, whats to complain about ?
Munich not Milan 🙄
DeniaBhoy on 29th January 2025 10:40 pm
I must admit. I was a bit surprised about Brendan’s comments about Adam Idah.
Perhaps im looking too deeply into it.
HH.
Hot smoked
To confirm 100%
We can sign players who can play as I said at 10.13.
Some on here suggesting BR was making a point. I doubt he needed to. I hope not.
Maeda can’t play in home leg.
We will play Bayern or Real.
It is the worst of the options of possible opponents in my honest opinion
Just read the ridiculously negative match report by CQN. Really miserable and not the game I watched. Don’t understand the point of saying tonight was as bad as the 7-1 defeat in game 2. Absolute nonsense. Used to be in CQN 5 times a day right back at the beginning but probabaly less than 5 times a month now. Little of interest, pop-up ads all over the place and too much negativity.
A shite first 5 minutes and last 5 minutes, we make too many mistakes at that level,but we showed a lot of maturity, and composure in between, which we haven’t shown for a long time,brilliant progress though
I think we’d be as well entering into pay off talks for the likes of Yang, Nawrocki and Holm. There’s just no point in keeping them. They can find their level like Tilio did and go away and enjoy life.
Hopefully we can get something for Palma and Lagerbielke but we will no doubt be taking haircuts on them.
Big few days now to strengthen this squad and see out the treble.
Greenpinata on 29th January 2025 10:31 pm.
I thought the Ref did well, except for the penalty of course, that was downright crazy.
Why do you think an untried Dane Murray was brought on instead of a current Scottish international deffender. Ie Anthony Ralston?
Seems a strange decision. Im sure there will be a logical reason
Greenpinata
Or indeed ahead of Nawrocki who has played in CL.
Maybe Brendan didn’t think the step up from Queens Park to Villa Park was too much for our home-grown CH-in-waiting ?
timgreen on 29th January 2025 10:43 pm
Just read the ridiculously negative match report by CQN. Really miserable and not the game I watched. Don’t understand the point of saying tonight was as bad as the 7-1 defeat in game 2. Absolute nonsense. Used to be in CQN 5 times a day right back at the beginning but probabaly less than 5 times a month now. Little of interest, pop-up ads all over the place and too much negativity.
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Spot on. Whose is making the money from the ads, and why would a Celtic fan want to contribute to that, as well as endure such negativity all the time? I only look in now and again to keep in touch with some great friends that I met through what was once a great site.
We’re still a bit short at this level , game tonight showed that we need better centre halves , the Villa lads up front just needed to be tackled ..
In the grand scheme we’re getting better , next time we play the Brummies we should be beating these guys ….
Let’s hope for Bayern in the next round
HH
An Dun
Disappointing that polish and Norwegian young players of the year could not be developed but we don’t see them every day.
For Dane Murray to be deemed better than the pole after time at Queens Park is worrying.
You may well be right.
Maybe a plus in Maeda missing the first leg is if we are still in the game after the first game then he might just be a weapon away from home through the middle.
Likewise either Real or Bayern will be celebrating drawing us and not Man City and be a bit too confident.
We should have brought on Nawrocki, we should have recalled Kwon and Tilio…what was BR thinking ?
BURNLEY78
If someone at Celtic was stupid enough to sign me for millions, I doubt very much you’d get to see much of me.
That’s because I’d be shite and not worth a game and no amount of development would change that fact.
BHEAVER on 29TH JANUARY 2025 10:28 PM
SAINT STIVIS
Also he could have played Tony Ralston before Dane Murray if he had to make a change there.
*why he already knows what he can do so give the 2 youngsters a run out on the big stage, on a horrible night during the big freeze down at the aptly named rugby park, 4 days earlier we had gubbed the EC semi finalists Dundee 4-1 at parkheid, but on this night we had 8 players on the injury list, so 3 youngsters were given their debut, including a wee carrot heided right winger, we were well beaten by a team sitting in 2nd place in the league, 2 years later that same side would win the league while we won the cup.
Radio for first half, telly for the second.
Brendan gave game time to young kids to help blood them, nice! Hope all are safe down there at the game. Maybe we need to send Cillian back there.
Glamour tie for Real coming up if they get us.
These are good times as a Celtic fan. I can’t remember better.
scullybhoy on 29th January 2025 10:51 pm
timgreen on 29th January 2025 10:43 pm
Just read the ridiculously negative match report by CQN. Really miserable and not the game I watched. Don’t understand the point of saying tonight was as bad as the 7-1 defeat in game 2. Absolute nonsense. Used to be in CQN 5 times a day right back at the beginning but probabaly less than 5 times a month now. Little of interest, pop-up ads all over the place and too much negativity.
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Spot on. Whose is making the money from the ads, and why would a Celtic fan want to contribute to that, as well as endure such negativity all the time? I only look in now and again to keep in touch with some great friends that I met through what was once a great site.
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And the constant reference to “Newco” (sic) is irritating when there are are thousands of Newcos every year from companies in the UK who have gone bust. Please note….there is only one “SEVCO” and I do wonder why Paul 67 Brennan insists on this irritating habit of describing the team formerly known as Glasgow rangers as “Newco”. In this regard, I have yet to see any responses to his editorial posts when he uses the word “Newco, from CQN contributors also using the description “Newco”,,,,,,,but plenty using “Sevco”, which is the correct analogy.
3rd &4th goals exposed individual errors & weaknesses. However the 3rd goal exposed how wide open our defensive structure was when we ventured into the opposition half. Defence isn’t just about the back four but also the midfield which too often was posted missing.
AJ taken to the cleaners for the first goal but battled throughout. Hitate failed to test the keeper in the first half but put in a good shift nevertheless. Idah can be well pleased with his night’s work. Engels showed aggression & fight, and not a little ability – when he has a few more seasons behind him he will be a top player.
Celtic were a bit soft all over the park loosing too many 50:50 balls.
Can’t help feeling we conceded the game when we allowed KF to leave before the match.
… losing too many 50:50 balls
Two stadiums and cities that are always good to go to is another positive. One day we will get a result there. Maybe this time. Possibly too soon for Jota to get match fit. Maybe same for KT but having them in the squad plus whoever else will be good.
TontimeTim.
we were still in the game at that time. Dean will have nightmares about that error. i didn’t realise but
Nawrocki was on the bench as well. surely he would have been a better option.
Both Murray and Cummings may or may not make it but they both need to be nurtured at SPFL level before being anywhere near even a CL bench . We also have a few players who can cope at SPFL level but weaken the team at CL level . Both Scales and Trusty have a potentially disastrous mistake in them while Yang and Palma compare poorly with Kuhn and Daizen .Could add CCV to that list too,, good player though he is, if he’s going to miss big games through injury.