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Celtic, experienced winners at Ibrox

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You will remember being concerned going into ‘these games’ in the past with too many Celtic players who have either no experience of them, or mainly poor experiences.  Not so on Sunday.  The Celtic side and those in the dugout have  experienced overwhelmingly positive outcomes when facing Newco, including at Ibrox.

The same is not true the other way.  Some of their starters will have played in the dead rubber at the end of last season, when Ange left half our team out.  Tavernier and Goldson have at least won meaningly 90 minute games against Celtic, but that’s about it, and even they will still need therapy to cope with memories of players in green and white hoops.

What happens at the side of the pitch will be as important as what happens on the turf.  For months, Brendan Rodgers has been privately suggesting that as long as Celtic are in touching distance when we get to Ibrox, we will be in good shape after the game.  The manager has an outstanding record at that ground, it seems to bring the best out of him.

Joe Hart, our back four, and Callum McGregor will feed confidence off each other.  Daizen and Matt O’Riley will use the relative freedom of an open game to exercise their abilities.

In my entire Celtic watching life, no striker has so dominated either of the Rangerses than Kyogo, even the Great Swede, and he dominated them into a wonderful tax efficiency scheme.  Nicolas Kuhn will be the one player in a Celtic shirt who will need to find he bearings.  If he is against Barisic, that will not be a challenge.

Having the better team does not guarantee anything, but the Celtic team you see on Sunday will be the best assembled side in Scottish football for many months.  Bring it on.

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  4. Tom McLaughlin on

    I’m quietly confident of a Celtic victory on Sunday. In fact I believe we will get a penalty.

     

     

    I’ve been trying to find an online betting site giving odds against a Celtic penalty. They only provide a bet on a penalty in the game (Yes or No).

  8. Prestonpans bhoys on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 5TH APRIL 2024 5:46 PM

     

    I’m quietly confident of a Celtic victory on Sunday.

     

     

    I’m not quietly confident but extremely confident, I couldn’t believe how poor they were at CP, well until we made those unnecessary subs and then they scored from a nonexistent foul.

     

     

    At worse we’ll get a draw, see you on Sunday 👍

  9. timhorton on

    One problem we have in every game is defending and if we dont get it right on Sunday it could be painful.

  13. Turkeybhoy on

    I think Calmac has to start.Better to be ahead than chasing.Fitness should not be a great problem,boy is a machine.Rest probably done him good,seriously.He will want to play.Will give the team a lift if he plays.

     

    No point in ” What ifs”.I am more worried about,MOR.Has been fan dancing about for weeks on the periphery.Needs to get early season form back.Usually plays well against them,lets hope.Hatate helps.

     

    Kyogooooooooooooooooooooooooooal.Oh yes.

  15. bigrailroadblues on

    Good evening all from the Shamrock Bar, Falcarragh. Four guys from Glasgow have boosted the Donegal economy. 😂😂

  16. Greenpinata on

    From last week:-

     

    Calmac, Reo and Iwata to start.

     

    MOR on the bench, but will come on.

     

     

    Start quick. Hit them as quick as like a mountain lion who lives on a hillock

     

     

    HH.

  19. Hot Smoked on

    If Calmac is fit enough , I would start with him and then change whenever necessary.

     

    Hmm…now that I have typed that, I am not so sure !! I`ll leave it to Brendan :-)

  21. dessybhoy on

    If callum is fit I think br will go will him reo and o Riley kun kyogo maeda left, the back 4 picks itself, unfortunately 2 our of the starting 3 mids will need to be replaced due to lack of stamina/ games, that is disruptive hope we are 5 up by that time.

  25. Tom McLaughlin on

    TURKEYBHOY

     

     

    Cheers and here’s hoping the Celtic family is celebrating across the planet.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  26. Darwin on

    We are all eagerly awaiting Sunday’s game and hoping for the positive result that keeps the league race open and in our hands. However I cannot, like some others, see any place for outright confidence in the outcome.

     

     

    We have had a bad second-third of the season, whilst our opponents have had a relatively good one – we lost a seven-point advantage, and have thrown away points in drawn games we should have won, to Hibs (a), Motherwell (h), Kilmarnock (h) and Aberdeen (a) – add these to the St Johnstone home stalemate earlier in the season and that’s ten points lost in a most unconvincing and insipid way. If we then include the Kilmarnock away match where we lost from a winning half-time position and should have scored four in the first-half, it means that we could/should be approaching Sunday with a fourteen-point lead.

     

     

    A favourite American poet and writer of mine Charlie Bukowski – a champion of the working-class in California in the 60’s & 70’s once wrote – “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”.

     

     

    Now I am not saying those who are expressing confidence about the outcome at Ibrox are stupid – by no means; however it sounds like just bravado to me – I don’t do bravado.

     

     

    Taking all the available data into account this season and adding in the surroundings, circumstances and fitness doubts surrounding a few of our key players – I ask myself how can anyone be “confident”, and on what is it based on?

     

     

    I will have all fingers and toes crossed and will be a bag of nerves in front of the screen and I’ll be hanging on to Alexander Pope’s quote: “Hope springs eternal”

  27. Scaniel on

    Too nervous and excited to think of the battle in front of us, but here’s one for the twitchers and naturalists….. Just seen our first swallow of the season- 10 days prior to any previous season. Hope JIMMYNOTPAUL is looking in and also hope it is an omen….. good times just around the corner 🤞

  29. Hot Smoked on

    DARWIN on 5TH APRIL 2024 8:33 PM

     

    “A favourite American poet and writer of mine Charlie Bukowski – a champion of the working-class in California in the 60’s & 70’s once wrote – “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”. ”

     

     

    I think Bertrand Russell said something similar but used ` cocksure ` instead of confidence.

     

    I prefer Buckowski`s but, either way, I agree.

     

    Cheerio for now.

  30. jackiemac on

    sftb –

     

     

    you watched Anatomy of a Fall on Prime –

     

     

    so good, so French but I gotta take brain breaks, there’s a lotta ship goes down

  38. bigrailroadblues on

    Good evening all again from the Shamrock Bar, Falcarragh. The customers in here reckon we shall thrash the smelly hun. So there now.

  40. Turkeybhoy on

    I don’t know why some fans are doubting Calmacs fitness to maybe last out the game.You dont lose fitness like his in a few weeks.Boy has astonishing levels of stamina and fitness.Probably the break did him good.A rested,hungry,fresh Calmac to ram Vlad’s words down his throat.

  41. Darwin on

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68737833

     

     

    Very very interesting stuff from Ange – different club, same philosophy?

     

     

    Does he feel he can say it ‘out loud’ now because of Spurs enormous financial clout?

     

     

    His sentiments certainly echo those of many Celtic supporters…….so are we too risk-averse, or , simply not rich enough to be able to gamble?

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