If you were an opposition manager planning to face Celtic, what would you do? At Ibrox we will meet a team that attacks us, but on all other occasions, we will face a packed defence intent on shutting us out. That’s not all. Every opponent will play for free kicks in the final third and corners, when possible.
It is not difficult to gain possession – then a foul – in wide positions 30 yards from your opponent’s goal. This would be the staging post I’d aim for when facing Celtic. We are winning games but set-piece crosses into the box continue to be poorly defended. We are the football equivalent of a boxer with a big punch and a glass chin.
If I was Dundee United manager Tam Courts, who face Celtic in the Scottish Cup a week today, I would play for penalties. Failure from 12 yards has been a regular feature of Celtic performances for years. It has not cost us a trophy since 2016, but until we improve this crucial part of the game we are asking for a sore one.
Practice, practice, practice. You can be sure Dundee United will this week.
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Aipple,
it is a true story, what exactly is your objection to the athlete displaying the “Z”?
If memory serves me we have spent the last 50 years being told politics has no place in sports, except when the US decides they want it included.
The US has invaded how many soverign countries over the last 20 years, without legal support?
Remind us how many times they were sanctioned and barred from the sports by the sports authorities for commiting genocide through carpet bombing cities?
And here you are bleating about a 20 year old boy who is being told he will unlikely represent his country again in a sport he dedicated his life to because the hypocrites cannot face their own hypocricy. The boy has as much right to support his country as the authorities have to, illegally by their own rules, evict him from future competition for political reasons.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 8TH MARCH 2022 11:56 AM
That’s moon howling stuff.
Both the USA and Russia are imperialist powers.
Of the two Russia is a far greater threat to the people of Ukraine.
Ernie…,
thats your opinion, however I do not think Russia have any Bioweapon labs in Ukraine, the US does, I suggest that is by far the greatest threat to Ukraine.
QUADROPHENIAN on 8TH MARCH 2022 11:49 AM.
Thanks for the reply pal . Regards bosun ,I watched the B teams game on Saturday . He was a standout and playing alongside Dane murray we have two for the future , I’m not sure of there contract standing but hopefully we won’t let these two jump ship . HH