The most important aspect about team plan for tonight will be the balancing act between aggression and discipline. Celtic need to get in about Legia without losing discipline. Legia roped us in perfectly last week. A buoyant home crowd fed off meaty challenges but when the red mist rose, they adopted choir boy looks. We didn’t.
Celtic need to disorientate Legia in a similar way; get physical, expect the same back, but remain in control of events. Efe Ambrose’ red card was critical to the outcome of the game in Warsaw, let’s work on their less-controlled players to see if we can tempt them into a similar fate.
An early goal would be nice but it it’s not necessary. 90 minutes is a long time to defend a lead and we should remember how last year Shakhter Karagandy kept things tight for 44 minutes before losing 3-0. If we can’t get an early goal it’s just as important to get Legia chasing the ball and making tackles.
Legia’s first half game plan will be to keep it tight frustrate the crowd. If there’s little penetration in the opening period we need to stick with the players, give them encouragement whenever possible – this works.
Beside our normal game plan there are a couple of objectives we should be looking for:
Get into the box. Despite having limited possession, Legia did this perfectly last week. If you’re in the box you force defenders into committing to challenges they would rather not. Make getting into the box a territorial objective and we’ll get a penalty. Or two.
Shoot often. Both our goals away from home in Europe this season have come from deflections, from limited opportunities.
Legia will tire late in the game. Teams always do when they have to traverse the Continent before a game. Teams also tire when the opposition have the bulk of possession and move the ball, and therefore opponents, around quickly. Keep the ball moving, bring on four fresh legs with 20 minutes to go and exploit this natural advantage.
Play it clever, and we’ll have enough in the tank.
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ryecatcher
13:08 on
6 August, 2014
Thinking even a half decent pub team would beat this lot tonight.
That is the type of comment that I would expect from one of THEM.
It also has great egg on the face potential.
NegAnon2
Sorry Mate I was feeding the wild bunch!
You might be right about the decline but it had already started when we were winning so the accusation of deliberate mismanagement is a serious one and one that makes no sense to me at all, when you have a club that’s making money why would you mismanage it into not making money? That accusation coupled with Kev Keevins story today hinting at the money being “misplaced” reminded me of a time on here when we were told to take responsibility for what we post on here, maybe those days are gone.
As a Celtic supporter it makes me very sad to see the negative opinions being more in the ascendancy on a day when our team needs it’s supporters the most, I’m just a bog Celtic softy I guess.
Enjoy the game.
May the Forth be with you!!
HH
quonno 13:11 on 6 August, 2014
Does my memory betray me, or did J Beaton do THEM some kind of a favour last season?
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I understand he was the referee for the Albion Rovers scottish cup tie at AyeBrokes last season. I can’t think of anything he might have done in that match to bail out the home side when they were a goal down with twelve minutes to go.
m6bhoy
13:16 on
6 August, 2014
quonno 13:11 on 6 August, 2014
Does my memory betray me, or did J Beaton do THEM some kind of a favour last season?
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I understand he was the referee for the Albion Rovers scottish cup tie at AyeBrokes last season. I can’t think of anything he might have done in that match to bail out the home side when they were a goal down with twelve minutes to go.
It was more a sin of omission rather than commission.
We’ve never beaten a Polish team yet this one is a pub team, apparently.
If you can hold both those thoughts and believe in them, without combusting, then you will surely manage to survive the departure of Luis the Vampire from the sinking ship that is Liverpool.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
13:13 on
6 August, 2014
That’s exactly what I’m saying. They used to have to sign the gun in and out for each response. Now they just get it at the start of their shift and hand it in at the end, doing normal police work unless they’re specifically called to an armed incident.
HT
So why you asking if it’s go by be ok? Lol
;-)
MWD says AYE
Wee bit of research underway on Sevco hawners.
Let’s start with Sevco Season 2012-13 (Scottish Third Division)
League
Game 1-8 P8 W4 L1 D3
Game 9 v Clyde, Clyde player sent off at 1-0, ended 2-0
Game 11 v East Stirling, ES player sent off in 33 mins at 1-0, ended 6-2 (Sevco 2 pens)
Game 12 v Stirling Albion, SA player sent off at 1-0, ended 2-0
Game 13 v Montrose, Sevco pen at 0-0, ended 4-2
Game 17 v Queens Park, QP player sent off at 0-0, ended 1-0
Game 19 v Elgin, Elgin player sent off at 1-0, ended 1-1
Game 21 v Peterhead, Peterhead player sent off at 1-0, ended 1-0
Game 25 v Berwick Rangers, Sevco pen in 9 mins, ended 3-1
Game 29 v Elgin, Sevco pen at 0-0, ended 1-0
League won, no more red cards for opposition or Sevco pens games 30-36
A wee question.
There has been some talk recently of how UEFA competition set up acts against teams from smaller countries like Scotland.
Are teams from such countries compelled to partake in UEFA competitions?
Zombie in work just said they paid £21 to watch a Deid team mime a game of footy last night.
MWD says AYE
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
12:42 on 6 August, 2014
hamiltontim
12:01 on 6 August, 2014
I have a spare ticket if anyone’s looking for one.
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Sitting next to you?
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Hhehehehehehehe
Sevco Season 2013-14 (Scottish League One)
League
Game 1 v Brechin, Brechin player sent off at 2-1, ended 4-1
Game 9 v Brechin, Brechin player sent off, ended 4-3
Game 11 v Dunfermline, Dunfermline player sent off at 0-0, Sevco pen, ended 3-1
Game 12 v Airdrie Utd, Sevco pen at 1-0, ended 2-0
Game 14 v Forfar, Sevco pen, ended 6-1
Game 16 v Stranraer, Sevco pen at 0-0, ended 1-1
Game 22 v Arbroath, Sevco pen at 2-2, ended 3-2
Game 27 v East Fife, Sevco pen (93rd min) at 0-0, ended 1-0
Game 28 v Airdrie Utd, 2 Sevco pens at 0-0, then 1-0, ended 3-0
League won, 1 more pen in remaining 8 games
Also worthy of note:
Ramsdens Cup
Quarter-final v QotS, QotS player sent off at 1-0, ended 3-0
Scottish Cup
4th round v Falkirk, Falkirk player sent off at 0-0, ended 2-0
Moonbeams,
I’m driving tonight so, dimtim will be there in plenty of time:-))
M6bhoy
Nawwwwww, she paid the lot ;)
quonno
I have not looked at the rules but I think that, if you refuse, your association can send some other team in your place.
UEFA would frown upon any rival competition being set up to the CL or Europa. However, I think the big clubs will look at a growing USA and Far East market and decide to challenge them from a position of power. After all, if the top 12 clubs in the world own the top 30-50 players in the game, they have a lot of leverage to get what they want by threatening a breakaway.
IGC
13:19 on
6 August, 2014
Wee bit of research underway on Sevco hawners.
Let’s start with Sevco Season 2012-13 (Scottish Third Division)
League
Game 1-8 P8 W4 L1 D3
Game 9 v Clyde, Clyde player sent off at 1-0, ended 2-0
Game 11 v East Stirling, ES player sent off in 33 mins at 1-0, ended 6-2 (Sevco 2 pens)
Game 12 v Stirling Albion, SA player sent off at 1-0, ended 2-0
Game 13 v Montrose, Sevco pen at 0-0, ended 4-2
Game 17 v Queens Park, QP player sent off at 0-0, ended 1-0
Game 19 v Elgin, Elgin player sent off at 1-0, ended 1-1
Game 21 v Peterhead, Peterhead player sent off at 1-0, ended 1-0
Game 25 v Berwick Rangers, Sevco pen in 9 mins, ended 3-1
Game 29 v Elgin, Sevco pen at 0-0, ended 1-0
League won, no more red cards for opposition or Sevco pens games 30-36
Some people just don’t get it.
Nothing must be allowed to interfere with THEIR progress to top league.
Compounding the felony is that some folk near to home are desperate to see THEM there.
fieldofdrams- Asda at Hampden invoke a 2 hour rule and ticket cars accordingly
MWD- I read the minis are £33 a ticket for Sunday at Poundland
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
13:24 on
6 August, 2014
quonno
I have not looked at the rules but I think that, if you refuse, your association can send some other team in your place.
UEFA would frown upon any rival competition being set up to the CL or Europa. However, I think the big clubs will look at a growing USA and Far East market and decide to challenge them from a position of power. After all, if the top 12 clubs in the world own the top 30-50 players in the game, they have a lot of leverage to get what they want by threatening a breakaway.
I believe that in the they have already used this leverage to threaten UEFA.
Also worth pointing out that Sevco had ‘top’ referees officiating thier games since their conception; the only team out with the top flight of Scotland to have this privilege.
Raises many questions but a few to think about:
Do referees, not used to plying their trade in the lower leagues, understand the physical nature of the game?
How many red cards and pens would be given in the other games not involving Sevco?
Does this make it a level playing field/sporting advantage?
End of conspiritorial rant!!!
IGC
13:28 on
6 August, 2014
Also worth pointing out that Sevco had ‘top’ referees officiating thier games since their conception; the only team out with the top flight of Scotland to have this privilege.
Raises many questions but a few to think about:
Do referees, not used to plying their trade in the lower leagues, understand the physical nature of the game?
How many red cards and pens would be given in the other games not involving Sevco?
Does this make it a level playing field/sporting advantage?
End of conspiritorial rant!!
Talking of conspiracies. Most Scottish referees know how to use their all seeing eyes to ‘Square a field to make it Level’
I anyone is interested I have a spare ticket and lounge pass for the game. Lambo’s Front Teeth of this parish can’t make it and I have his brief.
I am due into Edinburgh Bus Station, thereafter to meet Oldtim and Kickinthenakas in the Cafe Royal (I know!) after 5.
If you have Dave or Paul’s number, tie in with them otherwise email me on richiewhitelaw@hotmail.com
TONY DONNELLY 1258
Think that’s a cheap date?
AYRSHIRETIM was down for a visit at the weekend.
£1.99 a pinta Guinness.
Sadly the sod talked me into the dear places later.
Heyho.
Parking at Murrayfield.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.72197243,d.ZWU&biw=1008&bih=507&dpr=1&sns=1&wrapid=tljp1407328068398015&q=slateford+road+edinburgh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x4887c6fdb53864c7:0x52f3ccc9dc22e4e0,Slateford+Rd,+Edinburgh,+City+of+Edinburgh&gl=uk&sa=X&ei=SB_iU-vGFISO7Ab9rIDQCw&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q8gEwAA
Park off any of the roads at Tynecastle and Slateford Road. Cut through the sainsbury’s which has two doors one at each end and over the road into Murrayfield.
Think Tynecastle with no game on. Loads of parking around there on the street. You are no more than a 5 minute walk to Murrayfield.
When exiting the match cut through the Sainsbury’s again which I believe closes at 10pm.
Take route along Slateford Road past the Corn Exchange. Go via Chesser to A71 then onto the M8 or carry on up Lanark Road and join the Bypass at Wester Hailes and take the M8 at Hermiston. Alternative route is to join the A71 rather than M8 at that point and go via Livingston and onto the Motorway at Livingston.
Plenty alternate routes if you know them via the A8, A71 or even the A70 depending on your destination. Leave early today for the match and if you are going via the city centre get ppublic transport earlier bearing in mind the festival is on. There are a lot of Poles out and about in the city already so bear that in mind for trams and buses later.
Enjoy. Mon the Hoops.
LB
Red cards and penalties change games outcomes more than any other factor. I’m sure Scotland’s top whistlers are familiar with this.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
12:14 on 6 August, 2014
NatKnow
weeman67 was the poster who brought us the pish that Obama was the first president not to go to Normandy for the D-day celebrations.
He is a reliable poster.
Everything he posts is reliably wrong. Another (??) rubber nut site surfer.
Surfer, good choice of words as I am off to the beach for a 2 mile walk, then I will sit down for a 1/2 hour and look out at the serenity of the ocean safe in the knowledge that there are 2 loons out there that have never been to the good ole USA and never have any intention of coming here.
nohypocriteshereCSC….HH
!!Bada Bing!!
Jambos deffo £33. Sold their allocation and asked for more tickets. I believe they were upped from 800 to 900. All they are getting. Renewed optimism amongst them due to Hibs showing last night and their skelping of St Johnstone 4-0 last week.
LB
Ronnie Simpson
Oldest Scottish debutant
Youngest player to play Scottish league football.
First player to win a FA Cup medal then a Scottish Cup Medal. (Several players had won a Scottish Cup before moving to England eg Jimmy Delaney)
!!Bada Bing!!
13:26 on
6 August, 2014
fieldofdrams- Asda at Hampden invoke a 2 hour rule and ticket cars accordingly
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True, Bada, but you don`t have to pay them. They will send you the usual threatening letters re CCJs etc but do not enter into any correspondence with them. Eventually they will offer you a reduced fine. Ignore. It will go away. I got 2 from Morrisons in Aberdeen and 3 at Edinburgh Uni last year. Only enforcers are councils and polis.
Remember this stone Waller?
http://itcantbeparanoia.blogspot.co.uk/
BR – HH
Bobby Russell
I would not risk the car park at Sainsbury’s. Walk through Sainsbury’s and there is a car park at the Adli’s across from the McDonald’s. It will be empty.
Sainsbury’s coming out will be a bottle neck too.
LB
Livibhoy
I believe the away allocation for hearts is 1700.
situation where officers become armed as a matter of routine practice.”
Should our police be routinely carrying guns on patrol?
YES
25%
NO
75%
The daily record survey so far, me thinks McKaskill talks some p!!sh.
quonno
I have no doubt that they have already applied leverage but, their debts are still growing, and they will apply leverage again.
weeman67
Unfortunately for you, I know the meaning of the word hypocrite.
You posted a series of lies about Obama. These lies were so far-fetched that anyone who claimed to possess a brain could have worked out the flaws in what they were being spun. You not only posted it, expecting to be believed, you never apologised for either your deliberate attempt to mislead or your insult to our intelligence. I think you fit the terms of remit for hypocrite more than I can. The job is yours.
I am glad that you are enjoying the benefits of beach life in the USA (a country where Mags McGill lives, that should make for an interesting meet up). I would be more reassured if you could tell me that you are not allowed to operate heavy machinery above the level of a pedalo, while you are there.
Yup it’s a jamboree sell out.
http://www.heartsfc.co.uk/articles/20140806/ibrox-tickets-sold-out_2241384_4056172
Was that Sevcos first home game of the season? Only 18000 turned up.
There’s loyalty for you and that’s against one of their nearest title rivals too.
Loyalty my hin-end.
I did my usual, watched it until Sevco scored then turned over, hate seeing them celebrate.
I’m not a bigot – I just hate everything they stand for.
Kingoh
Not what the Jambos at work are saying but they could be wrong. I think only one of them even goes to away matches but never goes to Glasgow. Feart!
LB