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  1. MadraRua on

    Watched Leipzig tonight. Very tall, strong, fast. Lots of oppurtunities wasted to get an equaliser, but Liverpool should have also scored more.

     

    Certainly not an eady task, but we are on the right road.

  2. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    I think the Atalanta manager’s words lost some sense in translation:-

     

     

    “In Venice we had facilitated to have unlocked the game immediately, which did not happen to us this evening. I had never seen Celtic so perched and closed, in terms of consistency we had a good game. We lacked quality.”

  3. Coneybhoy on

    1 johnston

     

    2 scales

     

    3 trusty

     

    4 schmiechel

     

    5 McGregor

     

    6 kuhn

     

    7 valle

     

    8 engels

     

    9 hatate

     

    10 idah

     

    11 maeda

     

     

    Subs

     

    1 kyogo

     

    2 bernardo

     

    3 mccowan

     

    4 Forrest

     

    5 palma

  4. Burnley78 on

    Loved that tonight. Loved being so wrong.

     

     

    Great atmosphere in stadium.

     

     

    Fans were magnificent. Despite the usual stewarding and policing shambles.

     

     

    Really great engagement with Atalanta fans also.

     

     

    The team were heroic. To a man.

     

     

    Amazing how players like Scales and Trusty can play like in a formation they played in for other clubs and country. Low block and defending heroes.

     

     

    Pity to see Feyenoord and Zagreb win but good to see Young Boys lose. Overall we have a chance. Weird to see Leipzig next 3 games v Celtic Inter and Villa and they are on 0 points. It is must win for them in 2 weeks. Despite their domestic strength.

  7. Celtic Mac on

    Forgot to mention Peter McDougall tribute in BBC4 tonight from 10pm,

     

    ‘Remember; The Elephant Man’

     

    And on now and BBCi Frankie Boyle in ‘Just a Boys Game’

  8. Sargassosea on

    Very pleased with the result tonight against a very good European team. I thought that Scales and Trusty were showing the standard that they are capable of reaching and need to maintain.

  9. bheaver on

    We rode our luck in the first half but still defended with great courage. Our second half performance was fantastic and the whole team should take great confidence from this. Hopefully this confidence will help the players take greater responsibility of the ball when in possession and not give it away so easily.

  10. clunks on

    Scales and Trusty were amazing performers

     

     

    More to the point they playe well as individuals

     

     

    This is the start of their journey

     

     

    maybe played or 6 games together, and with the rest of the team

     

     

    If they get till xmas together, imagine where they will be then….

  12. ordinary joe on

    An Tearmann on @10:15pm

     

     “I could chap your door…”

     

    ………………

     

     

    Any time. Talk is cheap.

     

     

  13. ordinary joe on

    Thank God it wasn’t Aberdeen we were playing the night as their manager would have changed his tactics at half time and Brendan would have still been standing on the touchline holding his Playstation controller thingy.

     

     

    A 0-0 should have been viewed as a bad result for us tonight given the disparity in resources between the clubs.

     

     

    But given the deliberately steered Celtic PLC regression of Celtic as a European stock club since the Lawwell and Desmond balance sheet era 2004 became the focus of the club and their utter reluctance to deal with Celtic fans being cheated by Hun EBT scammers.

     

     

    But the PLC did sleekitly go along with the same club lie ticket pricing trap played out on unsuspecting Celtic fans, to cover up Rangers FC dying, then given the foul stench of backdoor corruption that’s passed off as just another day in Celtic.

     

     

    Much better to be the black sheep than as part of that stuff.

     

     

    Black sheep aren’t racist.

  14. Aipple on

    CLUNKS re: dem aipples

     

     

    Agreed!

     

     

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    ORDINARY JOE re: apologies

     

     

    Away and bile yir heid ya muppet.

  15. clunks on

    Aipple on 23rd October 2024 11:40 pm

     

     

    CLUNKS re: dem aipples

     

     

    Agreed!

     

     

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    Cant believe that I posted something that someone agreed with!!

     

     

    As for OJ, agreed

  16. Larkin1907 on

    Atalanta are just the second team on record in the Champions League (from 2008-09 onwards) to have 20+ shots (22) and 50+ touches in the opposition box (54) and not score a goal, along with Paris St-Germain against Borussia Dortmund in last season’s semi-final second leg (30 shots, 50 touches in the opposition box).

     

     

    Just one of the Stats on the BBC that show Atlanta up….

     

     

    Scales was magnificent.

     

     

    I’m going as a ‘bogtrotter’ for Halloween.

     

     

    GRUY greeting Huns

  18. !!Bada Bing!! on

    I thought Idah done well in the first half, a lot of first time lay offs which gave us space to move forward, but mixed opinions in the pub and on here,that’s what blogs are for

  22. Celtic Mac on

    Counting shots now, some on target, some not

     

    I remember the day when we started to count passes, Barca tested that, needed a calculator

     

    Or counting the km covered, you didn’t have to run, just keep moving, a favourite of Paul67

     

    i’m beginning to think Saint Stivs is where it’s at

     

    Counting empty seats, makes about as much difference to the result…

     

    Only goals count, Atalanta didn’t score any…..

     

    That’s all that really counts

     

     

    0-0inBergamoCSC

  26. Greenpinata on

    !!Bada Bing!! on 23rd October 2024 8:55 pm

     

    I think 99.4% of Celtic fans owe Brendan an apology, myself included, fantastic performance, as he said after the game, our inexperience at this level showed at times,giving the ball away too easily, huge confidence boost for the rest of the Group

     

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    Glad to be part of the 0.6%.

     

     

    IBWT.

  27. Gene on

    Larkin 1907 – the BBC could have said

     

     

    Celtic are just the second team on record in the Champions League (from 2008-09 onwards) to have 20+ shots (22) and 50+ touches by the opposition in their box (54) and prevent a goal.

  30. Big Jimmy on

    Well done to all the Celtic Bhoys.

     

    LIAM, AUSTON and wee ALEX were the standouts for me, with the other Bhoys also doing good work thru out the 90 odd minutes.

     

     

    I had backed a DRAW with the Bookies at odds of 4/1.

     

    I also had a correct score bet on of 3 – 3…..so close.. as I was only Six Goals out !

     

     

    LEIPZIG have a 21 year old striker who looks 8ft 7in…….but hes only 6ft 4in apparently. He will need taken care of at Celtic Park.

     

    LOL

     

    HH.

  33. Chairbhoy on

    MAESTRO @ 7:47 AM,

     

     

    Thanks for posting, good stuff from Brendan there… very fair assessment, the defence did brilliantly against Retegui and Lookman in particular, they had a very frustrating evening

     

     

    When they went off we could believe a result was possible, this Celtic team will only get better and the space we had during parts of the final quarter of the match meant as we improve, we will nick results, they were as shattered as us.

     

     

    All the team were immense but we can only pick three… so winging it’s way to SENCELPOTY@GMAIL.COM

     

     

    1. Trusty

     

     

    2. Scales

     

     

    3. Schmeichel

     

     

    Well done BR&Co and the bhoys.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  34. What is the Starz on

    Well once again it falls on The Mighty Gers to fly the flag for Scotlands European coefficient.

     

    After Celtic failing to score (once again) last night after a damp squib of a game which saw them parl the bus and ride their luck for 90 minutes the onus is now on Rangers to redeem some Scottish pride

  35. QuadBhoy on

    quadrophenian on 23rd October 2024 10:37 pm

     

    “The blog comments prior to the game were – what – 70% couch, Meldrew and soilage-related ?

     

    So some of us did see a positive result as possible.”

     

     

    I may have been first to joke about hiding behind the couch. I would say however that I always thought a positive result was possible, just highly unlikely if Brendan did not adapt and heed the lessons of PSG/Barca/Dortmund; and his pre-match comments hinted that he would not change and would keep the high line, high press approach.

     

     

    Thankfully it was a bluff and he changed approach, if not personnel, massively from Dortmund away. We defended deeper, sometimes 9/10 in the box and looked to break when safe without over committing. All quite sensible given the level of opposition and circumstances and all some of us were hoping for – a bit of pragmatism.

     

     

    QB

  36. theBHOYfromU.N.C.L.E on

    Watched the game in Berlin….minus a wall, which Celtic rebuilt in Bergamo.

     

     

    Wunderbar

  37. quadrophenian on

    Hey QB,

     

     

    Not a serious dig at any one pers – many fans were rightly fearful after dismal Dortmund.

     

     

    I shared an article a day back from 20/21; some dude analysed BR’s formational tweaks w Leicester and there were multiple ways he set out his side to combat top EPL sides; great wee read about 3-4-2-1 and 4-1-4-1 …

     

     

    Your view that he suckered aul’ Gasperini with his my way or the highway boast might be bang on!

     

     

     

    PS: I’m a couch hider from way back, but for me it all started with Dracula films and not the Celts

     

    HH

  38. QuadBhoy on

    quadrophenian on 24th October 2024 9:51 am

     

    “Not a serious dig at any one pers – many fans were rightly fearful after dismal Dortmund.”

     

     

    No worries, didn’t take it as a dig just that I don’t know any Celtic fan that thought a result was not possible – just most recognise it was highly unlikely had we went with our usual SPFL game plan as per Dortmund.

     

     

    As you say, some BR teams in the EPL played differently against Man City away etc so we know he can be pragmatic. Hopefully we get a balance between the two approaches in our next home game as Leipzig look a dangerous proposition despite there results to date in the CL.

     

     

    QB

  40. DeniaBhoy on

    Burnley 78 made an excellent point last night when he said “Amazing how players like Scales and Trusty can play in a formation they played in for other clubs and country. Low block and defending heroes.”

     

     

    Celtic CHs, domestically, are accustomed to acres of space in front of them. I have always thought Scales looks particularly uneasy when he gallops forward and then gets a nose bleed when he crosses the half way line and has to make a telling pass to keep the forward momentum going. He did it once last night and immediately lost possession and left us scrambling for cover as Atalanta poured forward.

     

     

    For the rest of the night he was a rock. As were Trusty and KS. Valle had me a bit nervous with his positional play, he was popping up on the right wing at times . In general, it looked like he had been instructed to play closer in to Scales and Trusty rather than tight to the winger (Bellanova). Maybe to reduce the risk through the middle and limit the danger to crosses being thrown in from the wing?

     

     

    It was a heroic effort all round, I was only hoping to avoid a heavy defeat.

     

     

    Interesting to know what people thought of Engels performance. He is young and will improve but are we expecting more based on the 11 million fee?

  41. glendalystonsils on

    What happened to all this talk of the team only being able to play one way? According to quite a few , it would take months of practice to change our playing style and ,as for the manager , he only knew one way to set up the team anyway.

     

     

    I think a lot of people underestimated both the team and the manager .

  42. Darwin on

    Extraordinarily pleased with last night’s outcome – as welcome as it was unexpected.

     

     

    Brendan has given a special mention to Trusty and Scales and rightly so – it will probably avoid the need to rush CCV back into the squad. The manager also made special mention of Trusty playing so well whilst on his ‘wrong’ side.

     

     

    I wonder if it is beyond the realms of possibility that we might see a back three operating in certain games in the future. That would of course mean going to a 3-5-2 set up and leaving out a recognized winger.

     

    Schmeichel(Sinisalo) CCV, Trust, Scales- Johnston(Ralston), Valle(Taylor) can get down the flanks – Engles(McCowan), Hatate(Bernardo) McGregor covering the middle – Khun(Maeda), Kyogo(Idah) up front. Nawrocki, Welsh, Palma and Yang make up the rest of the twenty-two.

     

     

    Perhaps we might sign the LA midfielder Mateusz Bogusz in January to complete the jigsaw – he could be

     

    bracketed with Callum. I’m sure we could get some money for Nawrocki, Holm, Lagerbielke and Bernabei to cover most of the reported £8m asking price.HH

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