Two early goals by Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama were enough to overcome Dundee United at Celtic Park today but a cracking strike by John Rankin early in the second half ensured the table toppers had to fight all the way.
Anthony Stokes had an early opportunity to test Pernis in the United goal with a free kick, as is often the case with Anthony’s free kicks, he struck the defensive wall. United had the best chance of the opening exchanges after 7 minutes but Fraser Forster denied Garry Kenneth at his near post after a goalmouth scramble. The visitors kept the pressure on for the next few minutes but were to concede soon thereafter.
Thomas Rogne cleared his lines with a defensive header which Stokes won with an aerial challenge and reacted first to prod the ball forward to an alert Gary Hooper. Hooper made the most of the space available, opened his body and placed an immaculately measured shot inside the right post to put Celtic ahead.
Five minutes later Georgios Samaras earned hearty applause throughout the stadium for a robust challenge on Willo Flood before forcing Pernis to turn a shot behind. The resulting corner was played short to Izaguirre who through a deep and high cross into the box. Victor Wanyama was first to react and seemed to have jumped early but he somehow managed to hover a millisecond long enough to be level with the ball when he met it before propelling it high into the top left corner of the goal.
Shortly before half time Stokes had another opportunity from a free kick. John Rankin broke early from the wall, raised his arm and blocked inside the penalty box. Referee, Winter, penalised the player for breaking the wall and ordered a retake, not a penalty. Stokes had two opportunities to make the points safe within a minute of the break. He met a Mulgrew corner on the six yards line with a glancing header that went narrowly passed the far post. Pernis then denied an excellent Stokes strike with a fine save.
The Celtic defence had not lost a goal in eight domestic games before today and could do little about the goal that put United back in the contest. John Rankin struck from 26 yards, the ball clipped the inside of Fraser Forster’s right hand post and bounced in. Shortly before the hour mark John Daly had Dundee United’s best chance of the game but Forster was equal to his header.
Georgios Samaras had Celtic’s best two chances of the second half. The first a diving header from a Matthews cross which was saved by Pernis. The second a cross from Matthews which Samaras pulled down with his chest before shooting over.
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hamiltontim says:
15 January, 2012 at 00:47,
Out for a few, home early.
PDAFF, tell ye later.
celtic40me says:
15 January, 2012 at 00:47
Hello daft arse.
I don’t believe we’ve conversed before. The text is still in my phone ya prick.
Mwd
If I were to respond to you on instinct then I would be complicity in degenerating the blog…completely counter to why I posted my comment in the first place.
Not everything you say is gospel, nor me, nor are you always wrong, nor me.
I don’t need to answer your cross examination you know the answers yourself.
You also know CQN can do ( much) better?
hamiltontim says:
15 January, 2012 at 00:44
Same mate ;-)
HH
Cults 00:35
Do you think it’s only the last week or son it’s gotten worse? Not noticed much difference tbh, more a gradual increase in bickering and name-calling, but the site is still worth reading for the frequent fanstastic contributions by many posters – auldheid, BarcaBhoy, James Forrest, RRC, mwd, among many others, – posting, researching, proposing, constructively arguing, and polemicising to a habitually high standard on the issue of the day, which is the prospect of a Hun Free Scotland – or more likely not. The posting about the game today has also been typically useful to those of us who didn;’t get to or see the game.
I do think there seems to be more chaff to skim through, but I’m happy to skim. It’s a blog, that;s part of the territory.
So to conclude…I disagree with you. You’re a hun. Etc.
[old school wink smiley]
I have this fantastic feeling that James Keatings has a phenomenal part to play in this run in..
Macjay
Hope you are and family are well.
Scotland is not as bad as some on here would describe.
HH.
In the mood – more A House: Bring Down The Beast
celtic40me says:
15 January, 2012 at 00:47
Now the bhoy who sent me the text has a young child but still has a season book. He travels from Dundee for every home game and goes to nearly every away game so doesn’t have much time for the internet stuff.
He knows I love CQN so occasionally he looks in. That was his observation. I’m an idiot you’re correct but not for that post I’m not.
By the way lads, I met Colin Jackson in a pub wan night..in Clydebank..told him he scored a fantastic ..gooal
A nice calm blog.
Let’s all chill.
Tarrant
Fair dos…
I’m not saying it’s dropped below being the ‘best’ Tim site in cyberspace….it has a far way to drop before it meets the competition… It was more of a plea to all to ‘up the game’ a bit.
Fascinated as I am by the prospect of Hun demise, there’s only so long you can speculate… I sense we have exhausted potential options and consequential effects of each.
Today we have on the one hand ST milking it dry when we are on a relative crest, and those with opposing viewpoints responding equally inanely. Nobody loves being 1st more than me and nobody mistrusts PL more than me….but surely now is the time for proper debate about the next step (if any) without back biting or trying forensically dissect views we are not in tune with.
If you feel we are living through CQN halcyon days or that the standard is being maintained, then we are seeing things differently.. Hey ho. You too must be a Hun. ;> )
Mwd. At Least I look at improvements to Celtic fc
You don’t. So you must be a real Hun
Pps add strikers , transfer windows , trophies to you list
The Golden Horde – 100 Boys
MWD
I posted yesterday that I admire the diligence and fortitude of the Celtic supporters, including your self, who have done their best to examine and dissect the maelstrom that is the HMRC case but for me it makes little difference.
I did a quick poll in work yesterday. Of the 4 other season ticket holders, all would continue to follow Celtic if a newco was accepted into the SPL.
Had an enjoyable afternoon at Chapmans. Ruggy fleeto.
Season ticket was well used.
Hail Hail boys
Gordon64
A calm amongst the growing storm…:-)
Hamilton
Did any of your 4 have a choice? I suspect not!
Do any CQN Celtic supporters have a choice. Very few….
You don’t choose to support Celtic, in most cases it’s a condition contracted at birth?
Many including my fellow Tim MWD might think they’d feel like chucking but the truth is they couldn’t if they tried!
H
Does anyone know if the film Limitless is worth a look?
Muillach
Sky + it tonight…. Wife deleted it so she could watch some keech as Was also recording MOTD!
ST
Now you have crossed the lines of decency.
Please resign from CQN with a shred of dignity.
CultsBhoy loves being 1st says:
15 January, 2012 at 01:15
MWD isn’t just a good Tim, he’s a good man. We’ve agreed we’ll agree on little but there’s away to conduct yourself and he does it like a gent.
You’re actually wrong, we may be born Celts but we have a choice whether to follow that impulse.
thanks Cults, ya dobber.
I did indicate there’s been a bit of rise in chaff, so not “halcyon days” by any stretch. However I remember the agony of the late Mowbray days which saw long-time and well-respected posters turn on each other very abusively; and many prolonged periods of almost infighting throughout the last two years of WGS era.
I understand how and why many posters are annoyed or bored by prolonged debate about the Boche; however, I also can make the argument that such debate is important to Celtic supporters concerned about the future, and resentful of the recent past where they perceive the huns cheating/financial doping/institutional bias etc has denied us a level playing field, and we’re allowed talk about the huns as much as swapping tunes or Breaking Bad reviews or requests for donations to charities…
…and if you don’t like the topic of conversation, you’;re probably not alone so change it and someone will engage; or just skim through until you find something you like; or comne back the next day and it will have moved on to something else.
But you know all this. Unless Paul67 changes the entire format of the comments section to be topic based (so we can have OffTopic threads etc), CQN will always be like this.
And while sometimes I get frustrated scrolling through posts and pages seeking higher standard postings, I know that the effort is worth it, and the top-quality posts are there from bhoys around the world who are here for the same reason I am, linked to me by our wonderful football club. If along the way I discover a fact I didn’t know; or a different slant on a hot topic of the day; or a link to a new band (this year, CQN gave me The Civil Wars); then that’s one of the many positives that CQN brings into my life.
Hail Hail one and all.
Sydney Tim:
Have you seen the game yet?
Earlier you said some fine malcontents had been hounded from this site… could you do me a favour and remind me who they were?
Heard a wee rumour that some of Morten Bays biggest great whites have stopped circling and were last seen heading south. You be careful in that water mate, those great whites have no morals either.
I had totally forgotten that 6-0 at Aberdeen. Thanks for posting, we were amazing in that game.
I think I might have been at the game, hazy memories from trips to the granite city.
Hamilton
You could never stop following Celtic even if you wanted to either…that’s not a criticism, quite the opposite and it most certainly applies to MWD as much as any true Celtic supporting CQN blogger…
G64
Is there a singer in your family?
Cultsbhoy
Sad you need to atack fellow Celtic supporters.
Gordon my fellow bhoy
Mwd called me a hun twice in ten minutes before a retorted
Now as you know we can’t have one rule for one and not for another
That’s the problem we are trying to eradicate in Scotland
FTB
Have you never heard me singing Ruby.
Stringer Bell
that whole game was amazing, almost surreal. There were times under Barnes when we were utterly unplayable. Only against Aberdeen right enough. Have you ever played the what if game regarding Barnes? This is how it goes:
What if…Henrik hadn’t broken his leg in Lyon…?
(That’s another game I was at; the most depressing trip home ever, all the more so as we travelled by bus from Edinburgh – 26 hours! On the ferry we got the papers that confirmed his injury. Rarely felt lower in my life as a tim.)
Tar rant since by your post you have established yourself as being in MY top ten brainy CQN posters I will pose you the question I asked MY no2 brainy poster earlier…
In 25 years time when 150 years of CFC is being dictated (pc and paper both being obsolete by then).. Who will be regarded as the man who contributed most to CFC….Fergus McCann or Craig Wyhte?
( a blatant attempt to change topic but also help me with a quandary?)
Dublin songs not working for yis. Try something totally different then. 30s America black Delta blues, reworked by a reformed heroin addict Australian in a pink Take That tee and a deranged screeching German. What’s not to like?
Stagger Lee [cert 15]
Kit no kit. Seen the goals but due to my house being to far from an exchange, my broadband is poor, sometimes at 80-90kbs:(((. Roll on nbn
I know a few , most in Sydney CSC go to kds
Another one who you gave met , think cqn full of board lovers and very rarely posts now as fed up reading same old head in sands stuff
G64
I’m not trying to attack anybody….I’m just stating my opinion, none of US could chuck Celtic as it is not a choice for most of us.. It’s a condition of birth!!!!!
Teejays in Hume St. in Clydebank.Do
ST
I think you need to decide who and what you are.
No offence.