Trending
Celtic News Now
Celtic Quick News on News Now
Celtic Quick News
You are at:»»Cameos sparkle for Celtic

Cameos sparkle for Celtic

299
By on CQN BLOG & Comments

I was annoyed at Dundee United, who were poor in the first half – not even setup defensively as well as teams near the bottom of the table, but then flipped into an effective pressing side late in the game.  They are third in the table on merit and could have caused Celtic more trouble, had they gone for it earlier in the game.

So much of the football we watch is ‘Defence v Attack’, so all in the stadium were alarmed when it was announced that Nicolas Kuhn had dropped out of the lineup before kick-off.  Nicolas is our most effective opener of tight defences, and the late change seemed to impact Celtic’s flow.  Early in the game the ball most often went left, to Taylor and Maeda; Johnston and Yang were less involved.

23 minutes in, however, Johnston found Yang (unconventionally) to create the opening goal.  United manager Jim Goodwin was correctly annoyed at his defence, who had chances to clear, but were not as sharp as Daizen Maeda.

Luis Palma made a late cameo appearance, flavoured with a delightful outside of the foot pass to create the opening for the second goal.  The pass was followed by a perfect example of ‘less is more’.  Another cameo – Paulo Bernardo – dummied the ball before it rolled into the path of Reo Hatate to score.

That defeat at the start of the month seems a long time ago now.

Click Here for Comments >
Share.

About Author

299 Comments
  1. Pages:
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 4
  7. 5
  8. 6
  9. 7
  10. 8

  5. Chairbhoy on

    DENIABHOY @ 8:35 AM,

     

     

    Yesterday I watched the game at Dens Park.

     

     

    Dundee were the better side for most of the match but the game could have gone either way – a draw was a fair result.

     

     

    However, the quality of the football was not great.

     

     

    This idea, that we must be a mediocre Club so as not to get too far ahead of our SPL rivals, particularly R2ngers, is so wrong minded for me.

     

     

    Nor is there a business case for it.

     

     

    We make more revenue, profit and kudos from our European exploits.

     

     

    “Then there is the fact we could spend 100 million on 4-5 players and not make any real improvement on that stage (just look at the teams around and below us).”

     

     

    Well, that again doesn’t seem to add up.

     

     

    Before Ange we had ten years of moneyball recruitment, that kept us just shead of dead Rangers and the other SPL teams but seen our European status drop like a stone.

     

     

    We sold Wanyama and never replaced him, we sold VVD and never replaced him, we sold Moussa Dembele and never replaced him, we sold Kieran Tierney and never replaced him…

     

     

    Point being, we had a flawed strategy.

     

     

    By backfilling; Jota, Starfelt, O’Riley, Joe Hart, with similar or better quality, we have managed to maintain and improve our levels without breaking the bank.

     

     

    The short term business strategy you are alluding too, just didn’t improve us a football club.

     

     

    Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts, R2ngers, need to have a long hard look at themselves – look at the riches that can be garnered from playing in the UEFA Europa and Conference Leagues and get better at doing what they are doing.

     

     

    Celtic have no God given right to dominate Scottish football, they just have talent and ambition.

     

     

    The idea we should be dumbing down to make R2ngers et al more relevant is for me an absolute anathema.

     

     

    We need to push on and improve, so the Clubs around us in the UCL, don’t fancy playing at Fortress Celtic Park.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  9. !!Bada Bing!! on

    The notion of waiting for the huns to get stronger, is total nonsense, we done it during the Deila years,top tier closed etc.We need to look after ourselves, and keep investing and trading our way upwards, qualifying for the next round of the CL is huge, both for buying and selling players, to make us stronger, do you think anyone in Scottish football is worried about us?

  10. Hot Smoked on

    Clement replies:

     

    “There are different stories in different games. Against Hibs we scored three goals in an away game. If we did that today we’d have won.”

     

     

    …..and if our opponents today had, like Hibs, scored three goals, we would have lost.

  11. Celtic Mac on

    Tickets for Scottish Cup Tie against Kilmarnock now on General Sale

     

    Saturday 18 January 2025 5.30pm (Weather permitting)

     

    Ticket prices reasonable range

  12. DeniaBhoy on

    CHAIRBHOY – fair points and I am not advocating dumbing down, just that many of us thought that was the board’s srategy up until a couple of years ago. We got a fright last season when it looked like we might lose the league, and guaranteed entry into the new CL, and that certainly helped Brendan get the players in he wanted during the summer. I, like most of us, would be happy if r2ngers did not exist. But the chances of Aberdeen, Hibs, Dundee Utd or Hearts, being able to fill the void are close to zero.

     

     

    My other main point is that, however much we might enjoy their ongoing troubles and revel in yet another manager heading for the exit door, a one horse title race will not be good for us in the long term. Interest and attendances will drop off just as it did when rangers were liquidated. Attendances of 30,000 could become the norm again with the knock on financial effect that would have.

     

    r2ngers business model needs such radical surgery their fans boak at it. Accepting being 2nd best and rebuilding their club to being one that lives within its means while developing young talent doesn’t satisfy their need to be WATP.

     

     

    I don’t think there is an easy answer for the suits and I can understand why DD and our board probably don’t want the gap between us and them to be seen as insurmountable.

     

     

    Not sure if I am articulating clearly my views. Just trying to say I can understand a world without r2ngers is not one that would benefit our Club though the thought of it is one that brings a smile to my face.

  20. Greenpinata on

    David66 on 10th January 2025 6:43 am

     

     

    Get well soon.

     

     

    The big question is, how on earth did you get a doctors appointment so quickly?

     

    A doctors appointment in Glasgow at the moment is as rare as finding a handsome hun or spotting a lesser spotted orange female moggie.

     

     

    Do you have any rolled up trouser legs ? 😀😀😀

     

     

    Cheers and HH.

  22. Greenpinata on

    What an inconvenience. We may have to celebrate our annual winning the league party in winter this season.😀

  25. yorkbhoy on

    I think the Celtic board have two options.

     

    1- spend enough to keep ahead of whatever team is based on Ibrox

     

     

    2- look to the future and the possible emergence of a Euro league and prepare to be involved in that.

  27. lets all do the huddle on

    “….attendances will drop off just as it did when rangers were liquidated. Attendances of 30,000 could become the norm again”

     

     

    Sorry I couldn`t simply copy the relevant seasons but the figures here do not support the view that 30,000 was the norm:

     

    —

     

     

    as St Stivs always comments on here about attendance figures – you can treat the official figure that celtic give out with a pinch of salt. it is not that closely related to the number of folk who have actually attended as we can all see with our own eyes at the games

  29. scullybhoy on

    10 Jan 1931: Celtic hammer East Fife 9-1 in the league. Jimmy McGrory goes “nap” scoring five goals, but the star billing goes to Peter Scarff, who has a hat-trick and apparently a hand in everything good that Celtic do.

     

     

    CELTIC WIKI

     

     

    “I’m wearing a Celtic Jersey and I’m playing for you. Those two things are the most important things in my life.”

     

    Peter Scarff on Celtic and his fiancé

     

     

    Premature Death

     

    A few weeks after the on-field tragedy with John Thompson, Peter Scarff was taken off prematurely in a match v Ayr Utd, suffering from shortage of breath.

     

     

    Later that season, following a one-sided league game against Leith Athletic in December 1931 (6-0 Celtic victory), Peter Scarff began to cough up blood. He took unwell and was admitted to the Bridge of Weir sanatorium. Despite hopes of a respite giving chance of a recovery (as there had been periods of remission in his case), it was announced on 19th July 1933 that his football career was at an end. Hopes of playing for Celtic were something that helped fight through as his fiancé (Marjory Boyle) was to say:

     

     

    “He kept telling me that he would soon be better in spite of what the doctors had said and would soon be playing for Celtic again”.

     

     

    Tragically, exactly two years after he took unwell on 9 December 1933, and at the age of just 25 he died prematurely of tuberculosis. Too young an age for any man to die.

  32. scullybhoy on

    APPEARANCES LEAGUE SCOTTISH CUP LEAGUE CUP EUROPE TOTAL

     

    1928-33 97 15 n/a n/a 112

     

    Goals: 51 4 – – 55

  33. Burnley78 on

    Funny how the old board always under stated the attendances and now the board overstate them.

     

     

    Bloody boards eh. Can’t trust them.

  34. lets all do the huddle on

    i think the current PLC give the number of tickets sold, i guess thats the number they need to count towards income to be taxed.

     

     

    the old board didnt fancy all that tax carry on 😄

  35. An Tearmann on

    Thanks for the feedback on my earlier post

     

    👏👏

     

    Thanks for Radio africa Spikeys👍

     

     

    HH

  1. Pages:
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 4
  7. 5
  8. 6
  9. 7
  10. 8