We have no right to expect anything against Atletico Madrid tonight. They are a side packed with tier-1 winners, who are enjoying their best season in years. Griezmann, Morata, Koke, Llorente, Azpilicueta, Oblak and the rest have played at the top of the world game for years. They have seen it all and fancy their chances of winning La Liga this season.
By contrast, the Celtic team that takes the field tonight have everything to prove. But what better an opportunity could they have? Kyogo, Cameron Carter-Vickers, On-Fire O’Riley & Co. are winning plaudits and attention across the globe. They are cutting it up in Scotland, often without effort, and – we think – are capable of great things.
Prove it tonight. Hurt Atletico for their brazenness in digging up 1974, for the Celtic fans who were denied a European Cup Final in Brussels, for today’s fans, who hold them in such high regard, for the memory of Jimmy Johnstone, a heroic performer in green and white hoops. Mostly, do it for themselves. A result tonight is a marker in their own careers – and it is just about achievable.
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We’ll get punished for giving the ball away in key areas tonight.
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TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 25TH OCTOBER 2023 1:33 PM
Absolutely correct, I’ve been banging out those stats for ages, even last night to my wife, who couldn’t care less 🙃
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flegs.
Get this off the playlist tonight….
For those who are oppressed
In song you can protest
So liberate your minds
And give your soul expression
Open up your hearts
I’ll sing for you this song..
HH
Sport is the great escape from personal problems and the dreadful horrors currently filling our world news media. Yes, it’s back to senior hurling tonight after Sunday’s training spin at Tynecastle. Have to admit I’ve been consumed by the RWC nicely filling the void created by football’s recent international break.
Another great European night in prospect when Athletico Madrid roll into town displaying the strip they wore in the infamous 1974 kickfest at Celtic Park when the Hoops were set to reach their 3rd European Cup final.
One wonders what exactly that’s all about and what the Spaniards are trying to prove.
Celtic just don’t seem able to get things right in Europe in recent years with a miserable record and still haunted by bad luck in matches against Feynoord and Alazio in the current season. They face their toughest test in the group tonight and will probably lineout as in the Hearts game.
All we can hope for is a good performance and hopefully a result and revenge for being kicked off the park in 1974.
I have a wee Bet ON with the Bookie for KYOGO to Score TWO Goals tonight.
He is priced at 18/1 with BET365.
Its not often that odds as high as that are available on Kyogo, but I just couldnt resist.
MON the Wee Man.
LOL
HH.
coybig
HANKRAY on 25TH OCTOBER 2023 4:38 PM
Nothing to do with luck fella.
It’s a tournament we don’t take seriously.
And for that reason, it’s why our opponents don’t take us seriously.
Hoping for a blip but more likely a pattern that will repeat itself.
HH
Teams like Atletico and individuals like Simeone are what maje European football, football in general such a rich and varied sport. Tactically we’re up against the
best, technically a very gifted team on top form.
They’ll cheat tonight, refereed by someone who himself has served a ban for match fixing. We’ll see how much we’ve learned about playing football at the top after we lost it in Feyenoord. Hopefully tonight will be more than another learning experience.
Calm and smart on the pitch please
Looking forward to this match, even if I am watching from afar .
An 8/10 from all our players , a strong ref and a slice of luck required ( for a change ) to get a result imo.
Big Wavy………..Hoping for a blip………stranger things have happened.
Of course we have played Athletico Madrid since the debacle in 1974, albeit in the Europa League. Back on November 30 2011, when they beat us 1-0 at Celtic Park. Neil Lennon’s team featured Matthews, Wanyama, Ledley and Hooper, the latter had a goal disallowed after a knock on from Stokes played him offside. Sounds familiar. Still had a chance of qualifying going into our last game against Udinese, but didn’t. Incidentally, both Manchesters were knocked out in the last 16, by Bilbao and Sporting. Athletico went on to win the final. Not the same hullabaloo surrounding our game against them then, in part because it kicked off at 6pm. Both Lazio and Feyonoord have run Athletico close, question is can we do better? Only if we have our shooting boots on.
Question for Celtic
Have we went from Braveheart to Braverman?
Farmeloan Rd at Victoria St Rutherglen was closed at 5.10pm
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus
I wish supporters who firmly believe that Celtic are in for a doing tonight would keep that nonsense to themselves in the hours before the game. It was the same before the game at Ibrox and it’s always the same people. It’s different in the days leading up to the game but on the night, give it a rest.
I know it’s a psychological thing where people try to get through a defeat by predicting it and saying — told you. Childish.
How about leaving us REAL suppprters to go to the game with hope in our hearts. If we lose, we’ll get over it, even if you can’t.
Great statement by the club
An understanding that we all have a view
And for clarity I am a Palestinian sympathiser (although 7 Oct is impossible to defend)
But tonight is about Celtic it’s not about using Celtic to make a political point
You either support Celtic or you use Celtic
Tonight we will see the true colours of our support
67ECW
67ecw
So just a club then…. not more than a club?
BELFASTBHOY0
A lot more than a club
But how come we pick and chose the victim
What about oppression in China
What about Syria what about the Kurds
What about what about
There are political and terrorists activity all over the world
Why are we not waving flags for them
I have no gripe with anyone supporting Palestine I just don’t see the relevance to Celtic
67ECW
Strong article by James Forrest about the GB. If they have been behaving like hooligans and wee thugs – and some examples are given by JF – then get rid.
Hot takes on the Middle East and a Tom McLaughlin huddle that pronounces, once again, that he’s the bestest Celtic supporter in the world.
Moderators scooping up posts like a pound of bacon.
I’m off.
Heart and Head as per……
2-1 to the Bhoys.
HH
Yeah I hope Paul will explain to all why any comments were removed
In Palma Majorca tonight for the game. Going to try Hogans in the City unless anyone knows a better pub there? Too far to regular Celtic bars in Santa Ponsa
CELTIC: Hart, A Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, O’Riley, McGregor, Hatate, Maeda, Kyogo, Palma.
Subs: Bain, Morrison, Lagerbielke, Phillips, Yang, Turnbull, Oh, Iwata, Bernardo, Forrest, Ralston, Johnston.
Same team as Sunday…
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Celtic XI: Hart; A Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor; O’Riley, Hatate, McGregor; Maeda, Kyogo, Palma.
Celtic subs: Bain, Morrison, Lagerbielke, Phillips, Yang, Turnbull, Oh, Iwata, Bernardo, Forrest, Ralston, M Johnston.
Palma – Finnegans Can Pastilla, Carrer de Virgili 14
From Celtic bars a-z
Not at all negative but, I think Atletico are too long in the lugs , we are too niave sadly.
one can only hope.
We are Celtic
We really need to stop playing 3 forwards against these teams
The removal of comments on here is getting ridiculous.
Hey, Mod I hear there is a vacancy available at the BBC
stop posting shoit then???
Quick analysis from Irons there on the BBC saying Feyenoord on 7 pts now while Lazio in 3rd will have 4, looked quite chuffed he did.
GG live updates up
well said tom.
hearts game we skooshed it and the negatories didnt turn up, they will be at it on here from the livr updstes first page,
72 million in the bank blah blah blah
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Feyenoord are looking excellent against Lazio. An outstanding attacking team