The champions made a winning start to their road to The Five with a two goal win over Ross County. First half goals, an early penalty from Leigh Griffiths and a Stefan Johansen effort secured the points before Ross County settled into the game.
Virgil van Dijk pinged a ball into the box allowing Leigh Griffiths to turn County defender Davies, who mistimed his challenge and took the legs from Griffiths inside the box. This time the Celtic striker was able to take the kick undisputed before hitting his penalty low and hard. Keeper Scott Fox got his body to the ball but couldn’t keep it out.
James Forrest was recalled from the start and made a powerful run on 17 minutes but his shot was saved. A quick break by County tempted Craig Gordon off his line, in an echo of a similar situation against Qarabag on Wednesday, but County’s Jackson Irvine controlled well and knocked the ball beyond Gordon, who committed to the challenge but only succeeded in felling Irvine.
Scott Brown and Virgil van Dijk managed to get back inside the box, and Irvine was heading wide, so referee Willie Collum only cautioned the Celtic goalkeeper. Gordon redeemed himself a moment later by saving the resultant fee kick.
A fine passing move by Celtic created space inside the box for Gary Mackay-Steven but his shot was weak and Fox saved. van Dijk then made space but could not find the target. The big Dutch defender later dribbled 30 yards but was dispossessed 10 yards out.
Stefan Johansen made it 2-0 on 35 minutes. Ross County were under incessant Celtic pressure and failed to pick up Mackay-Steven inside the box. The Celtic winger feigned to shoot before rolling the ball into the path of Johansen who made no mistake.
Ross County had a better second half but not until Stuart Armstrong rounded Fox and saw his effort cleared off the line. Gordon was forced into a stunning save on 65 minutes when Quinn’s effort from 13 yards. The Celtic keeper flew himself to his left.
Kris Commons then saw his rocket shot from 25 yards touched over. A moment later Armstrong’s audacious chip almost caught the keeper off his line but Fox stretched to deflect. Armstrong continued his search for a goal but his shot from outside the box was deflected wide.
Craig Gordon ended the game by making another fine diving save in added time.
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Jobo Baldie on 2nd August 2015 1:34 pm
Why does it show 136 comments even though we are now on Page 4?
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There are only 45 comments to a page now Jobo (sad how I know this really ;-) ).
Am I the only one having problems with this new site?
When viewing on my kindle it frequently crashes and on my windows phone I get an error message when posting a message
new article posted.
Interesting comments on the Celtic Park P.A.
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Now before I start it’s ages since I’ve done this stuff and I have no idea what systems are deployed at Celtic Park.
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That said unless they have recently installed a new fangled, wifi, Hifi – I would think they’d be running 100 volt line, an old established and trusted technology (though as we all know often not sounding that great).
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The things that effect the quality of this system, and most sound systems (Of course there could be a fault, but as the issue seems to be in several parts of the Stadium, if not all, I would rule that out), is the quality of the amplifiers, the quality of the speakers and the distribution design.
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Now if it was okay last season and the music is coming over loud and clear then I would suggest the P.A. system is fine – Are the Stadium announcements Okay?
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It would be the set-up on the day that is causing the issues, the mics, cabling, pre-amps, mixers that are going into the P.A. system that would be the problem – IMO – it would be worth getting onto the Fan liaison chap and making him aware. I’m sure with a bit of tweaking they could improve things markedly.
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Oh! BTW: Well done Ronny and the bhoys, Season kicked off nicely….
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Hail Hail