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Don’t blame defenders, this one was down to tactics

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It’s a well-established fact that we don’t have Beckenbauer and Baresi at the back, so the reason why we chose to play so high up the field is the most alarming element of last night’s debacle.

Dedryck was bound to misplace a pass, or Efe was bound to misread play. We all knew this. Regret over the last time mistakes like this were made doesn’t mean they won’t happen again. So when the inevitable occurred, our two full backs were 30 yards in front of the line of opposition attack, with our defensive mids well into opposition territory.

Efe’s failure to cover Kamara and Dedryck’s pass were consequences of the main mistake of the night, which was tactical.  We didn’t lose the opening goal because of a bad pass, it was lost because we left an acre of Norway unattended.

Ronny, you should never have left so much space at the back away from home in Europe, we’re clearly not good enough for such an open system, not even close.  We’ve learned nothing since what was supposed to be a lesson in Warsaw, when the same expansive errors cost us.  Molde played rope-a-dope football, they could have watched us against Malmo, Maribor and Legia, as each opened their home games against us in exactly the same manner.

It must be an absolute joy to face a European opponent at home who leaves so much space at the back, begging to be exploited.  If we had played with the same tactics we used in Amsterdam I’ve no doubt we would have won the game – no one in that Molde squad would get into the Celtic team.

There’s more.  After dominating possession and creating genuine chances, the defeat looked inevitable from the 11th minute when we went behind. Body language changed in an instant and Celtic went out like a light.  I’ll spare you what I said at the time in case it’s misconstrued, but the evidence suggests there’s more to worry about than repeating the same tactical mistakes.

Celtic have nine months and one and a half transfer windows to get ready for the next Champions League qualifiers.  There’s plenty of time to put things right, but we can’t sleepwalk into another failure.  More immediately, we could be out of a cup if we don’t pull our act together this week.

The original Holy Goalie, our own John Fallon, will be signing copies of his book, and no doubt giving you his thoughts on current events, at the Supporters’ Club on London Road on Sunday from 12:30.  All are welcome.  There’s live entertainment too, so get along and check it out.

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  3. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy at 10.20, three great celts in that picture plus the ra greatest evur berr, Greig, who had nowhere near the ability of any of our players in the picture.

  5. BGX on

    Deila Has a Way of playing, be it Europe orScotland, He believes in it and He Aint Gonna Change, It worked in Norway, It Will Work at Celtic, Thats what he Believes

     

    and thats The Problem…He had Time in Norway with Low Expectations

     

    ..Celtic is Very Different….Will it Work, Will He Get the Six Years it took in Norway, I Have My Doubts…

  8. gearoid1998 on

    Gftb

     

    That’s a date. Big Gordy casting aspersions. I take it your not 6’5″ then.

     

    With Gordy, Jamesgang and An Tearmann it’s like land of the Giants.

     

    Gordy don’t know whether I could afford VPs rates. That panache doesn’t come cheap.

     

    HH Tims

  9. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Gearoid at 10.16, thank you.

     

     

    Gerry , yes . My son tells me to calm down watching games.

     

     

    Most of his pals are sevs . He would love to give them a slagging .

     

     

    I won’t be encouraging him to go to our first league game at Celtic Park against the second club to play at Ibrox.

  12. topkat on

    Will we see Carlton Cole make his debut tomorrow ???? or will he have to adjust to the pace of the Scottish game ????? remember during the souness and murray years the press and media loved to warm welcome the the foreign stars signed by them…….used to grow tired of the quotes “they will have to adjust to the pace of the Scottish game”…..never once have I seen a foreign team take about 5-10 mins to get up the park….

  13. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy, Jimmy had more abilty in one of his toenails than ra greatest evur berr.

  15. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Gearoid1998

     

     

    Size never matters 5ft nothing but the heart of a lion (probably the one out of the Wizard of Oz) by the way you are I good company with that Dallas guy, definitely one of the good guys……

     

     

    As you mentioned earlier, I have only met a few but never yet met a bad Cqner…….

  20. sipsini on

    Just watched the Eubank Jr fight a mismatch if I’ve ever seen one, his dad couldn’t try hard enough to drape the butchers apron on his son, money talks I suppose!

     

     

    The boy looks the part and one to watch.

  30. Gerryfaethebrig on

    HT

     

     

    10.41

     

     

    My wee nephew is on the case for your third ticket for Wednesday, the wee bam went off his head when he thought I was looking for a ticket, but when I explained he said he would see what he could do, I quite admire the fact there is no way he would get it for me but would get it for a stranger who goes to the games, also like the fact it was me who introduced him to Celtic and bought all his blinking tickets when he was a kid !

  38. the glorious balance sheet on

    “Football without fans is nothing”

     

     

    Was reading in one of the papers today that admission prices for under 16s for the West ham game today were £46 and that was for a restricted view seat!

     

     

    Adult ticket prices were £60 to £90. For an everyday league game of football between clubs that, being flush with TV money, really don’t need to hike up ticket prices.

     

     

    Looking at that plus Leigh griffiths’ admission that he put his ear phones on en route to the team bus after the game on Thursday night to avoid discussion with Celtic fans outside the stadium, it’s clear that clubs and players alike couldn’t give two damns about the fans who go to the games at great expense.

  41. gearoid1998 on

    Oiche mhaith Tims everywhere.

     

    Tomorrow you will still be good looking and support a team with an unbroken history dating back to 1888 having paid all of our creditors including the face painters.

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