Victor Wanyama scored the only goal of this game after 72 minutes, a postage stamp corner cracker from outside the box, but the 90th minute created most drama as Fraser Forster saved an Eggert Jonsson penalty to secure the points.
Celtic were forced into yet more injury changes as third choice right back, Cha Du-Ri, was drafted in, in the absence of Adam Matthews and long-term absentee, Mark Wilson. With Emilio Izaguirre and Joe Ledley both close to returning to action Charlie Mulgrew played left back, giving Celtic a physical looking formation but they struggled to impose themselves in the opening 30 minutes.
Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes offered little up front all day but Hooper had two gilt-edged chances before the break. James Forrest hooked an awkward cross in from the right which the Hearts defence failed to deal with, allowing Hooper to shoot from inside the six yard box but he tame effort missed the target. Minutes later Hooper was again presented with a chance inside the box after Georgios Samaras hit the goal-line on the left but the striker failed to get his feet in gear.
Anthony Stokes connected well with a shot from 25 yards which tested Kello, the only real effort either keeper had to deal with in the first half. Stokes came close again after the break but he couldn’t quite get high enough to above James Forrest’s cross and his header rebounded off the bar.
Charlie Mulgrew struggled with his delivery from free kicks and corners all afternoon but the ball broke to Victor Wanyama on 23 yards out after one Mulgrew free kick. The Kenyan brought his foot from right to left across the ball, injecting a devilish degree of swerve to leave Kello rooted to the spot as the ball flew into the net.
With the clock running down Fraser Forster failed to deal with a corner and Wanyama was penalised in the resulting melee inside the box resulting in the penalty. With Jonsson ready to take the kick Georgios Samaras stood over the ball insisting it was not correctly on the spot, taking a clear opportunity to unnerve the kicker. Jonsson refused to re-spot the ball until the referee moved it clearly away from its initial position and insisted it was placed again.
When Jonsson eventually took his kick he struck it well enough but Fraser Forster dived quickly to his left and turned the ball behind. The winning run continues.
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Lennons Passion Does he play for St.Modans in Stirling ?there is a stocky built red haired lad plays in there midfield he is head an shoulders above any other players in the league they play in.It just shows there is a lot of good young talent in Scotland.H.H.
lennon’s passion
kinda lost you there mate
are you getting him watched – or do you want him watched
WOW
Benzema scores in the first minute.
Catastrophe.
Time for the best football on this planet. Had a wee bet on Barca at 7/4.
OMG what a mistake from the Barca keeper….1-0!
T4
Real Madrid score 1-0
Jeez.
1-0 Madrid 22 secs
jeezo 22.5 secs real madrid 1-0 v barca
1-0 Madrid,,,,,shocker from the Barca keeper
God Bless Sammi for his professionalism and his ballsy attitude!
Not everyone called Victor having a good day, eh Valdés?
20 seconds on the clock.
Shocking defending by Barca for the goal.
Barcelona go up the field and win a corner but it comes to nought.
charles kickham says:
10 December, 2011 at 21:01
Wanting him watched mate.
Martin Kane setting free the Kano 1000
I might not know much but I know better than to question our host on the hoops.
praecepta,
Thoughts with you and your family and mothers friends.
HH
Barca goalie been to the same school of clearing a ball as FF.
Great save by Casillas from Messi.
Big mistake Sergio Ramos.
wdh
He’s not the messiah. He’s just a naughty bhoy :-)
And a careless goalie analyst on this occasion.
I’m off to watch Mourinho’s men roll about the ground.
Whit a game so far!
TTTT
while was at the game – my wife and son bought me a Celtic Christmas tree! we are living in temporary accommodation as our home and possessions were stolen/burnt – so the Celtic tree helps all of us..
get my email from paul and give me some up coming fixtures and of course his name and position, age group – and i’ll pass them on and i’ll get back to you
Martin Kane setting free the Kano 1000
I’m bryan and so’s my wife.
Tommy Cooper on channel 5
charles kickham says:
10 December, 2011 at 21:09
Thanks mate will do.
jihilday,
Sorry to hear what happened to you.
I hope you pursue it and hope you get full cooperation from Celtic in tracking him down. With no witnesses and no CCTV I doubt you can do much even if you do get cooperation.
HH
Good save Valdés this time from Benzema’s header. Benzema hailed as a much-improved player on Radio Nacional.
lennon’s passion says:
10 December, 2011 at 21:10
pleasure to help mate
Joe Filippis Haircut says:
10 December, 2011 at 20:45
Sorry to see a good Celtic supporter and CQN poster was head butted by another so called Celtic supporter.I hope if anyone on CQN knows who the aggressor was they report him to Celtic Park asap.There is no room in the Celtic support or Celtic Park for this kind of nutter Ban him for life he wont be missed.H.H.
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Who was hit and who did the hitting?
TT
Barca 9/2 now!
T4
jhilday
what happened?
TT
saw Stephen today with the bhoy in the chair..
bournesouprecipe,
Correct, they are desperate and it will only get worse…if possible.
Lenny and the Bhoys are up for it, of that I’m sure.
ernie
No, it was not the captain`s job…..it was the referee`s and he did not do it until Sammi intervened.
JJ
Valdés saves from Di María this time.
Real Madrid playing the Mourinho way.
Anti football.
Dangerous free-kick for Barça.
It was great to see Scott Brown standing up to the physical and verbal intimidation from the Mini Huns today. We have a lot of ball-playing nice guys in our team, who sometimes allow themselves and their team-mates to get bullied in this horrible league, where MIBs will do nothing to protect against orc thuggery, and I like Broonie’s “I’m the captain of Celtic” attitude.
He may have been born in Dunfermline and so hasn’t been immersed in all that is beautiful about Celtic, but I think that bhoy is a mad Tim \O/
Barceloni
Barca slowly imposing themselves on the game.