The margin between great success and disastrous failure at this level can be paper thin. Celtic failed to make the most of a 28th minute corner kick and within 30 seconds, Cluj opened the scoring. Lewis Morgan missed a challenge in the 70 yards from goal and the inch-perfect through ball got beyond Boli Bolingoli for Mario Rondon to score.
We have seen many Celtic teams wilt after losing a goal away in Europe, but James Forrest made sure the same would not happen on this occasion.
Within nine minutes of the opener, Forrest played a give-and-go with the impressive Hatem Abd Elhamed, collected the return pass and shot, the ball clipping the inside of the post on its way into the net. This passage of play turned the tie in Celtic’s direction.
While there is a high expectation Celtic will progress to the playoff round, our chances are no more than they were when we secured the same result away to Maribor in 2014. There is work to do on Tuesday. In particular, the nature of the Cluj goal is of concern.
Apart from one dreadfully defended corner, Celtic restricted Cluj to few genuine chances, but they were able to punish us on the break. This will be the basis of their game plan next week. Soak up as much pressure as possible and overload on our flanks when we are forward. It does teams no harm to have a simple game plan. We will need to be at our best.
More on Kieran Tierney later. There will be chat like: “This is how football works and has done so for decades. It’s why many players come to Celtic. They come and go, our job is to understand how the sport works and to be good at it….”
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QUADROPHENIAN on 9TH AUGUST 2019 9:41 AM
RUGGYGMAN – I always thought the Melling kid had great energy and tenacity; wonder if he sees us as attractive? Possible – mibby Lenny was just ribbing the meeja and winding up multiple CQNers.
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We can pay him a lot more than Roseborg and we are a gateway to England
I know that our PLC board needed to be goaded into it by fans but we should be proud we pay the living wage compared to some of these clubs down south
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49288182
Premier League clubs have been urged to pay all staff above the minimum wage after spending £1.41bn on players.
Everton, Liverpool, Chelsea and West Ham have all made the pledge
The rest should be ashamed.
new article posted.
CQN Saturday Naps Competition 2019-20 – just a wee heads-up
Plan is to start from next weekend (Saturday 17th August) and continue until Saturday 16th May (40 weeks in total) – and hopefully we’ll finish on the same day as an historic QU4DR4BLE
:)
As always, a big thanks to Paul for allowing us to continue to use his platform.
Cheers, fleagle1888
FLEAGLE1888
Count me in Fleags,hh
Fleagle 5.57am
Count me in
Cheers GFTB
FLEAGLE1888
Good bhoy,I’m in.
Fleagle – Count me in too, cheers
HH
Cheers Fleagle
HH
Count me in fleagle. Cheers again for taking the time to run the show!
Fastbhoy I’m in too, cheers fleagle.