Celtic v Anderlecht, Live updates
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By the by, I have been seriously thinking about giving up the gambling lark, it’s a mugs game so it is, had Juve won by another goal tonight this daft Tim woul;d have won 18 grand, they didn’t, so feck it, I really need to give it up, but then again…..hitting the bar is what keeps you making the fat bookies even fatter and keeps you coming back for more in the hope.
ART OF WAR
Touche! I think the exception proves the rule! I have noticed that our lethargy is now affecting most of our SPLstarts as well. I say “most of” because doubtless you’ll have an exception!
Hail, hail,
IniquitousIV
Did I hear Brendan right tonight?
‘Some of our players have a long way to go before they can call themselves players at this level’
Wooft. If that’s not a boot up the arse…
The reaction of players will be interesting. Will they man up to that Cristian from their boss or squirm away into mediocracy.
MWD
If you know your history Celtic’s yardstick for success is Europe. Jock Stein? One day Brendan’s European record will be as good as WGS’s.
Maybe.
We survived. But I’m fed up wi being humiliated and surviving.
Even worse being humiliated and not surviving,of course.
Aye,how can we match the top seeds in our group? PSG,BM?
Ffs,most teams in Europe would struggle to cope with them.
Or last season wi Barca and Man City?
Has anyone any idea of the gross worth of those four teams that we faced in the last fourteen months?
I’d be surprised if you could buy them all for less than £4bn.
I reckon you could buy most of our players for 1% of that. In total.
It’s what we’re up against,but it’s no excuse for tonight.
Could be worse.
Might wake up screaming that Deek McInnes could be my manager.
A man who wishes for 300 (film() references but might end up with 1690.
Vainglorius is Derek.
Meanwhile, BBC news Scotland starts with nun/priest abuse as lead story..ands ends with Bagwash saying worst home record for Celtic but the jammy bassas qualified anyway. GRRRR
Glad we’re through, but very disappointed with losing. Have you ever seen such poor crossing from two teams in a game? Most of Anderlechts went for goal kicks and most of ours went for throw ins. To think that David Beckham made a career out of that one skill…
Not long in – Wee BGFC away to bed dreaming of a trip to Dortmund in February!!
My view of the game…
First half – certainly one of the worst performances since Brendan arrived.
There clearly was a problem with Stuart Armstrong from the start of the game – not sure whether it was physical or mental. Agree with Jamesgang – Stuart was as far off the pace of the game as I can recall seeing any player since wee Bobby Petta tortured Fernando Ricksen at Celtic Park. Too far off the pace for there not to have been some underlying issue, I think.
His passing was terrible – his first five passes were to Anderlecht players. Coupled with that, he was just not getting back in position to help defend when the ball came back at us – never looked like he was even trying (or perhaps able) to get back in position – players were strolling past him.
Similarly, although not as obvious, Scotty Sinclair was again off the boil, and was not getting back in to help KT with the two-on-one situations he was often faced as a result.
As a result, a few things happened:
1. Broonie had to come across to Celtic’s left hand side several times to cover for Armstrong. Although he did a great job, it badly impacted our defensive shape – either the centre or the right wing became exposed again and again as players shuttled left to cover for Armstrong, or to cover for the player who was covering for Armstrong.
2. KT became really exposed at left back, and couldn’t therefore get up the park in the first half.
3. Boyata was, like Broonie, pulled left and, even when he had the ball, had few options ahead of him (i.e. no Armstrong or Sinclair) – he often was forced to punt long to Moussa who had two large Centre Backs on him for the whole for the first half, so couldn’t hold the ball up, which in turn came straight back at us.
4. Players being pulled left to cover the problems there, I think mainly down to Armstrong and to a lesser extent Sinclair, meant that our right then also became exposed if Anderlecht shifted it across quickly, which they were good enough to do several times.
I was also surprised that Armstrong stayed on the park until half-time – subbing him at 20 minutes wouldn’t have been out of place.
By no means saying he was bad and everyone else was good – clearly that’s not the case. It was obvious, though, that he was so off form that it did have a really significant impact on how the team was able to perform as a unit.
Much better play in the second half.
Ollie brought confidence, speed, aggression, passing accuracy (sometimes) – everything Armstrong lacked tonight.
The change to five at the back – with three in the middle – really tightened up the defensive shape. Forrest played his right-back / wing-back role very well, and linked well with McGregor several times.
Moving Moussa out to the left wing, with Rogic central, worked a lot better than the “Moussa up the middle” tactic had worked in the first half (pity he picked up a knock, although Edouard looked decent again when he came on).
The positional change seemed to free Moussa a bit from the clutches of their two centre backs, and Ollie found him down that wing four or five times in good positions, and that’s where most of our chances in the second half stemmed from – very clever move from Brendan.
Unlucky goal to concede when it did come – although we could have easily conceded two in the first half.
So – rubbish, disjointed first half – mainly, I think, for the reasons above.
Better second half, with some insightful and pragmatic changes by Brendan to bring a bit of relief to a potentially fraught occasion.
Disappointing performance on the night, bad result, good overall outcome.
HH
BGFC
We know that European players have, in general, better technical players than us.
Is it because games are refereed to a different standard, alloying them to develop and practise their skills?
I think that is part of it.
They are also tactically more aware on the pitch.
We have to aspire to that level of efficiency.
A change in refereeing standards would help us and the game in Scotland.
Tonight was a stick or twist conundrum, that we never really got control of, especially in the first half.
Three nil up and ninety minutes to play,against a team with nothing to lose.
A major plus for us, as it has been on many occasions, is our fitness and stamina, which held out to the end, unlike Anderlechts’.
Iniquitousiv. Lol buddy!
When we played PSG away some of our players were already in defeat mode before kick-off. They did a bit of running about now and again but they had no belief in what they were supposed to be doing.
Get a quality centre half ?
CL stats:
Jozo 4 appearances, passes 209/220 93%
Dedryk 5 appearances, passes 265/282 93%
Broony 6 appearances, passes 347/358 96%
Fill your boots with comparisons: https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2018/clubs/club=50050/index.html#/
We’ve qualified to play European football in the New Year.
I’m happy about that & see that as an improvement on last year.
Next year I’ll be looking for us to at least do the same but get more points.
We are a pot 4 team in this tournament whether we like it or not.
We have defied the odds by doing better than our seeding.
We played Anderlecht when they had lost confidence & were being poorly managed, but we beat them in their place to earn the right to go through to the Europa League.
I remember in the last few years when qualifying for the group stages was our goal.
Then I recall the gloom as we were repeatedly drawn in everyone’s group of death.
We made the group stages & we were drawn in another group of death & we qualified from it.
Now about the game…
We played a 4-5-1 in the 1st half, which Anderlecht anticipated. In addition they were well orgainized, energized & up for it. And why not, winnning well tonight would likely have put them through to the Europa League. We were very lucky to come in HT on 0-0. The weaknesses in our team are not unknown to us, they’re just not exposed in the SPFL. Anderlecht played at twice the speed and three times the skill level, while their movement was fabulous. I’m just glad this guy was managing them earlier int he season.
In the 2nd half we switched to a 3-5-1-1 and immediately we looked better. We had chances in that half while in the 1st half we were lucky to get into their half. For their goal, we did what we did constantly in the 1st half – we gave them the ball in our own third of the field. Even then it needed a touch from Jozo to take the ball in off the far post.
It seems that Brendan is still learning about some of his players at this level. Until they’re extended, he has no reason to doubt many of them. Despite what was at stake & the fans efforts, and even Scott Brown’s very animated huddle speech – the team were caught flat by a much different & better Anderlecht. Brendan has to accept his part in sending the team out in that frame of mind and in that team shape. I was relieved but baffled how it was still 0-0 at HT.
It seems that Brendan is sometimes too loyal to certain players, while others are fielded when they are still not fullly recovered from injuries. Simunovic looks off the pace & leaving him out on Saturday looks like it was to give his injury a chance to calm down. Dembele looked like he was in the same category – injured but still worth putting in the team for what he could bring. Sadly tonight, he didn’t bring that.
Sinclair & Armstrong have not played to the same standard they set last season. Tonight was no exception.
In the 1st half Tierney was ineffective in defence and of limited value going forward. I know this is heresy for some, but he is human & young. Like others he will know he was led a dance in the 1st half. In the 2nd he was, along with many others, much improved. He worked well with Ntcham & put in some decent crosses. However, he lost his composure in defence – just once in the 2nd half, and under little pressure kicked the ball back to Appiah of Anderlecht. His cross was headed home.
The HT change of shape & personnel made all the difference. Anderlecht tired then got a boost from their goal. Ntcham was excellent & Odsonne Edouard did more in his first move with the ball that Moussa did in 75 minutes. Tom Rogic often got himself on the ball aroud the box, but I waited in vain for him to unleash one attenot at goal. Callum & James Forrest were transformed by the 2nd have team shape & looked much more threatening.
Scott Brown was awesome.
We did what we had to do tonight – not lose by 3 or more. We were lucky in that first half, but the players that showed such character against Motherwell last week, showed more again tonight. Undaunted by getting humbled at home in the 1st half they played the way we know they can in the 2nd.
I wasn’t at the game. I watched it on TV. I can imagine some of the frustrations of those who did attend, but Mrs John51 was less than impressed with my own frustrations being so colourfully vented. Still, I am more relieved than disappointed, more philosophical than angry. She is just glad than it will be after Christmas before I am likely to get this way again.
Easter Road on Sunday will give us a chance to settle a score with one the teams who took a point off us at Celtic Park earlier in the season.
HH
BGFC
Good post, lots of accurate analysis.
The KT left side weakness, has been exploited in most of CL games since Borrusia
BIGCUPWINNERS
209/220
That’s 95%. Just saying.
Tend to agree with BMCUW on tonight.
Just went back to read last weeks CQN articles:
“There is no way we will lose to Anderlecht”. Derek Boyata
“”Attack, attack,” Callum McGregor
“We don’t need motivation”. Tom Rogic
“Paradise will be rocking.” Derek Boyata
So what happened? We were so desperately poor, it is inexplicable. Surely Van Himst’s description of us as peasants, wood cutters and lumberjacks was sufficient motivation?
Apparently not.
Interesting quote from Brendan that certain players have a long way to go before they can call themselves players at this level. Seems to me that if they don’t have it now, they will never have it. Of all the deficiencies on display tonight, passing was the worst – we either passed it perfectly to a blue shirt, tried to pass it through players ( and the referee!) , or passed it behind our own players, killing forward momentum. We looked lethargic, did not look fit, and could not get near the opposition.
O.K. Enoff o’this. Tough game at Hibs on Sunday. HH.
JOHN51
I have to disagree. Tonight was a disgrace. It had eff all to do wi Sunday,if anything it made teams know we are vulnerable.
We are top dogs in Scotland. In the early 90s,we weren’t. Tonight was worse.
Thank the heavens….
for the light that they shone on EUROCHAMPS67.
Much more important than any football club.
But, ye have to say……
Thank God that the Belgian pub team didny have a manager in the 1st leg.
Some say that, Brendan is a lucky manager…..,well, there it is.
But, Chris Sutton is correct, Celtic under Brendan, are beaten in the tunnel.
That’s when Celtic urny playing in the Scottish pub league.
Ah mean, when Brendan’ s Celtic are skelped, 7-1, 7-0, 5-0 etc…..and then, for the manager to come out and say – “The opposition were fantastic.” well, that isn’t good enough.
Ah mean, where is the disgrace in parking the bus ?
A pishy Strasbourg team parked the bus at the weekend and, skelped the, according to Brendan – “Nobody could live with PSG.”…Strasbourg parked the bus and skelped the “unlivable” PSG 2-1 !!!!!!!
Ah mean, how many Strasbourg players would get into the Cellic team ?
There is a great chance to win the Europa League Trophy 2018.
But, when our managers cuteness, dizny extend beyond the Scoattish Pub Team League, well, it could be a great chance missed.
EUROCHAMPS67 – Keep it lit mate.
WEET WEET WEET – Same to yourself.
Thoughts and Prayers to both.
….oot.
Madmitch – wee Hun revelling in a Celtic defeat that he still hasn’t worked out qualifies us. Away ride yer hand in lieu of McInness ya worthless loser.
‘I like the Sandman because his ratings don’t stay up for long due to the blog having become a playground for the hyper-sensitive knicker-twisting element who have risen to power primarily through the sadly zeitgeist-defining propensity to contort their bowels at any remotely controversial word or statement the Sandman makes; whose punishment for such reverting to committee-approved blandishment should be to go back through the Sandman posts since 2003 and underline in red every single word or phrase that makes them politically-uncomfortable. The c####. I think; can’t quirete count the hash-tags…’
CQN regular, yesterday.
SANDMAN ABSOLUTES –
DEFINITIVE RATINGS YOU BETTER READ QUICK AN COPY/PASTE BEFORE THE HAND-WRINGING MODS DELETE LIKE THEY HAVE DONE THE PAST TWO EFFORTS WHIST LEAVING THE MULTIPLE INANE TROLL POSTS TO POLLUTE THE BLOG; IT’S QUANTITY OVER QUALITY, KIDS…
This is IT! :
GORDON – 9/10
JOINT man of match with awesome Broon. Unlike the rest, if Big Craig wasn’t on it from the whistle we’d have been one-down in the third minute and Anderlecht would have reamed us; FACT. Totally outstanding. Beaten only by a fluke OG. That first save deserves LEGENDARY status – you critics have NO idea how vital that was. Worth £10 million. Kept his cool whilst everybody else – bar one – suddenly ghosted as my ex-Sunday League hungover compatriots.
Lustig – 5/10
Mad Mick got lost in space when Anderlecht showed the audacity to attack. Chased shadows, dug in because he’s mental, but lost composure continually.
KT – 5/10
Taken by surprise. Roasted on his flank, hassled into hasty clearances, looked as bewildered as most of the rest at Anderlechts’ capabilities.
Boyata – 5/10
Unsure, hesitant, shy to man-mark when it counted. Bailed out too many times, didn’t get into his confident stride we’ve seen this season.
Jozo – 6.5/10
Timing is everything at that level. Tragically unlucky to conceded the goal; he’d done everything right; tight on the man, put him off the header, only to see it deflect off the back of his heid into the net. Everything else – at least he was on the ball, intercepting, organising, Couldn’t work his influence on those around him, tho.
Armstrong – 0/10
Come on, Stuarty; give it up or f### off. Got the deal, needs to hit the heights or beat it. SPL-level heidless chicken, hardly got a touch, conceded so much space, shambles of a performance.
Callum – 3/10
Never enough service via the wee mhan, looked on the edge of anticipation, failed to create every time there was a chance to gather and execute. Looked a victim of the general malaise.
BROON – 9/10
Let ME tell you! Let me claim the right as someone who wished he’d been able to reach the required levels but still had a bit of quality; let me tell YOU how GOOD that performance was from our captain –
OUT of the whole Euro shebang if not for the skipper. Composure, timing, efficiency – superb; possibly one of his very best CL games lost in the overall pantheon of pish. Incredible the number of times he dug us out a whole or covered for others’ ineptitude; count them yourself, Broon haters; immense performance. Outstanding; probably outrageous when you saw the depths those around him allowed themselves to drop to.
Sincy – 4.5/10
Whit? Sub yer lighning feet at half-time when you’re up against it? {Promised in the first-half, let down by final ball. But to sub him at HT? No, Brendan – killed our chances of breaking; at some point a player of his class comes good; see Brussells in October…
The Prestwick Pele – 6/10
Looked our most-likely match-winner, but ALSO the mhan most likely to be subbed due to the injuries; so Sincy gets hooked and the wee mhan has to endure at 75% throttle; Brendan, wtf?, really…
Moussa – 5/10
Been nice if someone in the Hoops had managed to shuttle the ball to him occasionally – sadly let down by non-existent service.
Ntchm – 6/10
HE. IS. THE. MHAN. Precisely the dig and vision we need at this level AND precisely the partner for Broon to take control of the middle – in tandem, WE rule. Why, oh why does BR not se ethat, when Zz does?
Edouard – See Dembele above.
Rogic – see Callum -1.
BR – 5/10
Wrong. first time I can recall shaking my head at his choices; starting lineup SPL-ready, but cannon fodder for the likes of Anderlecht. Outfoxed and out-thought by the Anderlecht coach and his very capable team.
You want to secure a result and nullify as decent opponent? Play Broon in tandem with Ntchan – let them support and feed each other and bolster the midfield control to let the creatives like callum, etc do their thing. Instead he isolated Broon in the mid and if it wasn’t for Broon’s brilliant display and Craig’s sharpness we’d be done.
Sobering experience, but he’s got us through to the Europa against seeding expectations so he still rermains the Messiah, and narrowly avoided being just another naughty boy.
OVERALL:
7/10
Utter p*sh tonight; don’t pretend it was anything other – Lenny and Strachan has Celtic CL teams at home going for the jugular at rip-roaring tempo and got results; BR has throttled it and failed to make the impact that could have seen us scalp a few notables; however, job done, within limitations, though question marks remain, and are highlighted more so after winning intentions were so clearly stated and were so obviously failed to realise.
Eurochamps67 – power to you fella, God speed your recovery.
Mods, do whatever floats yer boat, but I’m rattling the truth and yawning at the thought of yer preciousness…
I think Arsenal or Athletico Madrid would do. Brutal truths are required.
Not Old Firm backyard parochial bible thumping.
SANDMAN
Pyoor pish wi the ratings,my man.
I’d give the lot of them sod all.
Gordon-aye. Great save 9? Naw.
Moussa. Whit,5? Naw.
Yer having a laugh. Fella clearly wasn’t fit,total embarrassment
He’d be lucky to get -5 on a good night.
This fella needs to realise that his plan of action brings him to the attention of the big guys and that means being a goal-scoring machine.
He’s just turned 21. He’s a goal-scoring machine. And he’s injury prone
And there’s your problem,and his. Is he a 40 man? Is he a dead weight on the injury list?
He’s a dead weight. I guarantee you he won’t play more than two thirds of a season in a decent league.
Earlier tonight,on the back of a really bad tackle? From two weeks ago?
He hid. He hid like the most cowardly hider ever.
Killed the blog again.
Heyho….
What do you want,folks?
Dembele the coward or Dembele the predator?
Or,what does he want?
It’s completly in his court
Coward,predator,coward,predator,coward,predator.
Seriously. 21,you decide that you canny take those kicking anymore,or…
You look in the mirror,take a BIG breath,stare every …. down and ask if that’s the best they can do.
KEVJ
You can’t expect a team to go through a domestic season undefeated.
Even PSG.
Of course they’re gonna lose eventually.
Of course,there is a wee club in a backwater undefeated,a season and a half.
I think you once professed to support them
The Mighty Celtic,in case you’ve forgotten.
MODS
Whoever deleted that post from Kev,not fair. If you’re having a discussion/argument,there should be two sides I’ve often been accused of being able to start a fight in an empty house,but I don’t think it’s your call.
Unless you explain your reasons.
Btw,it makes my reply look even more styooooopit than usual.
Canny sleep
Trying to count sheep but canna fun them cause they are in the Huns pockets.
Anywy for some reason I have ‘tis carazy song going roon my napper
If it wisnae fur oot Broony
Wherewud we be?
We’d be lost in our midfield
And defensively
Cause we wid hive a dose o the heeby geebies
Or even doon the league
If it wissne fur oor Broony in yer midfield!
Broony he is wunderful
Broony he is swell
He’ll keep out the strikers oot.
And they’d saying Hucking Fell.
When your sittin in oor stadium
You cin always tell when some
Bugger takes aff oor Broony
MWD
Mods are aff their rockers BMCUWP
I haven’t read back yet. Bucra Insh’Allah
Made the long pilgrimage to Jack Demsey’s with an old friend.
Disappointed with the result but I never thought they had enough penetration to score three goals against our back line. And they scored none, thanks to Gordon and a lot of back tracking from James and Sinclair.
Broony was exposed continually in the first half as Callum and Stuart were ineffective and lost, not knowing their roles, I suspect.
Sandman ratings.
A wee bit generous to Callum, and a trifle harsh on Lustig, Rogic and Kierney.
I don’t think Brendan was too pleased at the end and no doubt he will be encouraging some personnel to work more than a little harder.
We now need to focus on a sapping December schedule, by using the likes of Ajer, Ralston if fit, ON and OE to help others regain physical and mental sharpness.
BMCUWP
You’re angry & hurting Bobby.
I’m really sorry about that.
I was angry for a few minutes in the first half when we were getting done so easily.
I invest more than I should in the club, mostly emotionally, but when I can afford it, materially.
Our invicible position in Scotland tends to give us all a false reading on where we are as a team.
It never gives me a false reading on where we are as a club.
Just as our players are rarely extended in Scotland, so too our manager.
Despite all the glib stuff aimed at the EPL, largely they recruit better players than we do and then put them in the reserves.
Just occasionally, certainly in the last 15/20 years, we raise our game and turn over one of the big boys.
Our reality is now. It is this. It is being required to come through 6 games to get into the grouop stages, only to placed in pot 4 in the full knowledge that we are the under dogs in a 4 team league.
Our players are always a step down from the players that the other teams players. No offence, but that’s why we have a PSG unwanted reserve on loan, or an unwanted Man City winger, or, or.
The only way we can combat that disadvantage is by superior coaching & supreme fitness.
Recently, in UCL games we’ve had reason to question both.
Brendan is happy at Celtic, but he too is not being extended, nor improved as much as he would be in a more competitive league with higher calibre players.
I believe he’ll be with us for a few years yet – eye on the 10. But he will get restless, get tapped, get offered ridiculous salaries & eventually, when he tires of winning leagues here & scrambling in Europe he’ll be tempted. Not for a long time, but that’s the reality.
I’m glad he’s our manager & despite set backs, he’s the best manager and ambassador for our club since Jock.
We expect to sign some players in the January window. All the other clubs in Pots 1,2 & 3 in the UCL will also sign players. We need our signings to improve our side, whereas those teams are usually shuffling squad players around to try and offload some in preparation for their next mega signing.
The gap is increasing between us & the clubs we aspire to beat. The odds are that we will rarely beat them & that is the reality too. We put in one good performance in this season’s CL & that was against a demoralized Anderlecht.
If our players aren’t extended & our coach is extended, then we will always risk being embarrassed when we play in Europe.
I know of a Scottish manager who took his team into the European cup for the very first time ever & won the blooming thing against all expectations. Jock was unique and we know that the Lions were so unique that we haven’t seen their like since. But I can hope & I can dream. The alchemy that produced that man & that team has gone for ever. The game in Scotland has been allowed to fester and wither. The SFA in particular still value their place at the top table of the game.
Five associations make up the International Football Association Board.
FIFA
The FA
The Welsh FA
The Irish FA
The Scottish FA.
The SFA seem to believe that this is a symbol of their undiminished importance in the game. They sit at their top table & they care nothing for what happens to the game at ground level.
In England the FA has transformed football at schools, village & non league level. Fine stadia & wonderful playing surfaces are found everywhere (even Swindon), but crucially they have an accountaable refereeing system & a much more transparent governing body. The failure of the FA to implement changes was the subject of government ministerial discussion as they threatened sanction against the FA if they refused to change.
Those things, as much as Sky millions has made a difference there.
Anyway, hope things seem less bleak tomorrow for you and others afflicted.
I will enjoy the now & support as best as I can in whatevr circumstances fate & the SFA can throw at us.
HH
The top table that the SFA see as an indication of their importance in world football.
Meanwhile the game in Scotland withers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Football_Association_Board
Ah didn’t reply to anybody, if am the Kev mentioned in the above post.
Certainly wouldn’t reply to sumdy who ensures that most others in boxes, are stowed oot wi emails n texts etc, ordering them to, “ignore the bores, scroll the trolls” aye, remember those all inclusive days ?
The one way narrative is what the Kellys n Whites, even old firm Fergus tried it, when they had their hauns oan the printers of the Celtic View. Didn’t work oot very well for them, eh.
I’ve never been in a clique in my life and, I’ll not be giving oot ma details to, the cliquemeister himself, or to clique pawns who’ll, one way or another, be relieved of my details somewhere doon the line and then, I’ll be, beholden to a clique.
I say “Never, Never, Never!”(Ian Paisley voice ;)
…..oot.
Good morning CQN from a dull and mild East Devon.
Very disappointing last night.
Felt a bit let down, but it’s all about Hibs now. Let’s give them a thrashing!
So Celtic have euro football after xmas – good news story regardless
in typical fashion the record has catholic church abuse story
“This is the country where you live”
Big cup winner
That 95% passangers from centreback look great but if the 5% of loose ball falls at the felt of the other teams playing 25 yards from our goal they its an issue a big issue, would rather a 85% pass rate where the other 15% is not direct to playing in advanced positions fuck statistics
HH
TIMMY7_NOTED on 5TH DECEMBER 2017 10:52 PM
Lot of spoilt brats at celtic park tonight, bottom line is if you don’t like it don’t go you won’t be missed.
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Oh but they will or rather their ticket money will. Isn’t that what playing in Europe is all about? It did used to be about football.
TWC
Yes good to see you talking about football rather than selling stuff..
I know you are a Celtic home and away supporter but I hate what you have done to CQN…
Still grumpy
Pleased we’re through – that’s about the extent of the positives from last night.
Very poor performance and for the first time, from my eyrie in the North Stand, I could see Brendan throwing his hands up in frustration at our play.
Be in no doubt: Europa League is progress for us. But the standard required to make an impact in that competition is still high, and a tough draw (Arsenal) will almost certainly see us out.
Of our players, I thought Brown and Kieran were good, didn’t hide and got stuck in. Moussa and Jamsie worked their socks off in thankless roles. Ntcham and Rogic were good when they came on, and Edouard looked decent again.
Boyatta, Simo, and Lustig were all hopeless. Sinclair was poor, and Armstrong was abominable. Craig Gordon made a couple of decent stops but his distribution was atrocious, and succeeded in playing us into trouble time and time again.
Anderlecht will be kicking themselves, but who cares. We are through, we need to strengthen, or, at the very least, give players like Ntcham, Eboue and Edouard (and Ajer and De Vries?) their chances to shine.
Morning all
Walking up Cadder Road and found a couple of Harold Melvins lying on the ground. Not mine so on the ground they must remain.
Last night was not good. Had a thoroughly mediocre Anderlecht not been happier to settke for the win on the night and pocket the win bonus a bad night could have turned into something catastrophic. There is part of me almost wishes that was it for Europe. From before the Linfield games the campaign has been a mess. Even the qualification in Kazakhstan was a bit ignominious- the second half collapse a foreraste of future events- whilst three of the last 4 games in the group saw us produce really pathetic displays
I am sure that I will not feel too gloomy for long but right now I am hugely disappointed by the way our team has regressed. Nothing has been learned from last year and nothing will be learned from this
Jimbo67