Dinamo Zagreb dropped points for the second time in 10 league games this season on Saturday when they drew a blank against bottom of the table Slaven Koprivnica. Slaven took only one point from five league games in August, and lost heavily to Zagreb on the opening day of the season, but have tightened up at the back in recent weeks. Parking the bus on Saturday was enough to curtail the Croatian champions.
That blank score line was a rarity for Dinamo, who had scored in all but one of this season’s 18 previous outings. After losing their first leg at home to Zagreb, Aalborg shut up shop in the Champions League qualifier in Croatia and overturned the first leg deficit.
So what can we expect on Thursday? We’ve kept only one clean sheet in the last 10 outings, and that was to lower league Hearts, who missed a penalty and struck the crossbar. Looking at Celtic’s defensive record, Dinamo will fancy their chances of getting a goal. Like most teams away from home in Europe, they will plan to defend first and foremost, and take their chances on the break.
Having collected a vital point away to the top seed on match day one, the group opens up for Celtic if they can beat Zagreb this week, but how should they go about achieving this? If St Mirren, Motherwell, Dundee and Inverness can score against Celtic, Dinamo Zagreb will do so, unless Celtic protect their back line considerably better than they have so far this season. Celtic are likely to need to score two or more to win the game. Without Goals Guidetti, this sounds like a big challenge.
Going on form, it’s in Celtic interests to ensure this is a tight game, deny Dinamo space to break into, and use their own speed to attack when opportunity arises. We’ll need to hold the ball, and that means Kris Commons will have to play, no matter how fit he is, but I would be tempted to give him a deeper role than usual. Johansen and Brown have critical roles to play in protecting the defence but they will need Commons available to bring calm to proceedings.
I see The Telegraph have taken a punt on Craig Whyte, et al’s, Worthington Group being in sufficient funds to mount their threatened legal challenge to Sevco Scotland Ltd, now known as Rangers International PLC, for acquiring the legal entitlement of Sevco 5088 Ltd. Sevco 5088 had irrefutable entitlement to the assets of liquidated Rangers FC but this entitlement was assumed by Sevco Scotland, then owned and controlled by Charles Green.
Green and Craig Whyte both claimed to control Sevco 5088 when the company’s entitlement was assumed by the other company. So what does all this mean? There’s nothing in The Telegraph story that we didn’t know two years ago. Even if a journo had first-hand information from a prime source, you’d have to wonder what value you could invest in what any of these characters say.
Until Our Hero spins the roulette wheel at the Ibrox Casino, everyone’s chasing shadows on this one.
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bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
23:34 on 30 September, 2014
ACEILERGONOFRUST
Having seen you in yer onesie,the thought of you in a tutu is just too much.
So please,nae flouncing!
Boaby
Don’t you start that, it might become common on here. Ghod forbid. :-)))))) KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Good late comeback from Porto.
Hail! Hail!
Failed again!
Night Night Timland. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
TOSB, only just. Never give up.
squire danaher – 22:26
“I rest my case about New Labour and the Catholic vote if all you can give me is Tony Blair converting to Catholicism after he left office.
He obviously concluded that being a practising Catholic was a bad career move while among the New Labour secular zealots.”
What about poor Dr John ‘Death’ Reid, does he not count, a zealot maybe, but secular, hardly. And Clare Short was once of the faith too methinks.
So we have a motley crew of a convert, a practicing believer, and a relapser; bit like your average night down the pub then.
However, I don’t actually believe Salmond is anti-Catholic, just a very poor or naïve politician to leave himself exposed to this very charge in a country with an appalling “what school did you go too” history of anti – Catholic discrimination.
Oidhche mhath.
Night weefra. I’ll give it fifteen minutes before I read your next bedtime post. Do you walk up the stairs wi her lappy?
Away tae her kip ya daftie, get her beauty sleep before Thursday.
HH
That burnley78’s not much of a businessman. I’m desparate to sample his wares and he’s no telling me where to buy them.
Does anyone have a contact add for him? Aye, great. Send it to acgr@hotmail.co.uk. Free zadok ringtone (for next season, not this one), for a response.
Mon the fancy beers
a ceiler gonof rust
00:14 on 1 October, 2014
Night weefra. I’ll give it fifteen minutes before I read your next bedtime post. Do you walk up the stairs wi her lappy?
Away tae her kip ya daftie, get her beauty sleep before Thursday.
HH
Haha ya bampot, aff tae ma cot noo. See ye Thursday and looking forward tae it. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Good god!! Just noticed Jeremy Kyle was on my telly after the cl highlights.
I can imagine kevj and the singing fruitcake on there fighting over custody of Kojo.
There’s no winner there btw.
Weefra, ha ha. Tilt ye.
Night bruv, sleep well but don’t count sheep.
HH
ACGR
I can’t get those bloody wee symbol thingies to appear in my printed posts. They just seem to disappear when I hit the ‘POST’ key. I’m going to be annoying everyone until I get it right. I know, I know, I annoy everybody already
Blooter it!, I left Glasgow aged 24 and not once since have I been asked what school I went to.
In my experience, this is / was very much a west coast disease and is being eradicated.
TOSB, wtf you on about?
I thought you we chasing a podium and were just a bit slow.
What symbols? I see dead people often, but nape symbols.
blooter it!
00:13 on 1 October, 2014
You argue there are practising Catholics in the Labour Party.
You have not convinced me that any of them see their Catholicism as anything other than to be hidden within the course of their political career.
As far as I can recall none of the Scottish ones at any time went out on a limb articulating for or defending the Catholic Church in the face of the attacks it faces from pro-secularist/ anti-Catholic bigots in respect of the schools issue, or pretty much anything else.
To be fair Clare Short defended the Birmingham Irish against knee jerk racism but schooling is not the issue in England it is here.
The point as I already said was that a previous poster had condemned the Archbishop of Glasgow for having the temerity to pay tribute to Salmond who, throughout his time in public life – unlike many in Scottish public life – complimented and appreciated what Catholic schools bring to their communities. Even if one accepts the likelihood Salmond was being cute about wooing Catholic support, he went above and beyond in his support for Catholic schools and certainly beyond what Labour politicians in this part of the world have ever said on the issue.
I did not ask for a list of practising Catholics within the Labour Party. If you can show me any quotes from Scottish Labour politicians matching those of Salmond in terms of their support for and praise of Catholic schools I would be extremely interested.
Acgr,
Yer timmy good looks is a giveaway…;))
See when Jeremy Kyle gets farmed out from doing this pish, I reckon jamesgang will make a brilliant and able replacement.
I really need to change the channel and stop watching this dross. Just another minute and then it’s off………………..
Naw naw naw, a geriatric American midget who’s been accused of pumping his step daughter. I’m addicted after fifteen minutes.
Will whisky help?
Sipsini, how’s it going with your hun co-workers? I hope you’re being discreet in ripping the pish oota them.
Both barrels would be much kinder, you know they’re worth it.
Acgr,
It’s like a scene from the walking dead in here, they’re not very talkative and avoid any eye contact with me… Magic…;))))
I hope Robert Prozineki’s retired, he killed us the last time we played the team from Zagreb. A great player and a thirty tabs a day man at the time.
Maybe Ronny can get our midfield guys on the Marlborough’s to improve their effectiveness.
Goodnight Celtic men and wummin, and shiters
Whisky’s helping me…..
PS
That was a joke.
Ha Ha.
Night Owl…
Al
Testy, testy du bois.
Aye, that’ll do. Back to the love chamber for me.
HH the RAF, who just flew very very low over my gaff. Away and bomb some Iraqi civilians ya noisy twats.
unionist scum
Morning from a pitch dark Clydebank. Wind sock limp so not a breeze to talk of. 8)
Morning, awe I was just going to post three hours since a post, morning BT hope all well
Ayrshire is Green and White
Cheers micktt
Early morning wake up call for me today..
BT
If the wind sock is limp it could just be down to the ole meds :-)
HT
Maybe so. . o))
BT
Good luck today mate
BT
Best of luck today pal.
Blantyre Tim,
Good luck with today’s op
Hope all goes well.I understand
What your going through two new knees @ hip in last two years great improvement wish you a speedy recovery. Prayers said
Cheers bhoys
Mini BT concerned that I haven’t purchased her package for EL yet.
Priorities for you..8-))
BT
Good luck, hopefully make a world of a difference and use the sticks as long as possible, know a few guys who didn’t through vanity and it set them back.
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
BT, good luck today. Hope you get a right wee honey of a nurse to look after you ;)
Good luck today BT
Trading slaves we all thought it was at an end, now they just have many owners
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