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This is an important window for Celtic, since a few are due to leave, (simply not good enough) and we must replace them wisely …….
And, continuing my rant, our defenders need to be more physical. They are too easily brushed off the ball. Having said that, I did enjoy the game. Griffiths gave us much more energy and deserves his chance of a wee run in the team.
Disappointed but not too worried after today’s result. Scep’s goal was wrongly disallowed and Leigh Griffiths was unlucky to strike the post. We should have won game was played at a great pace, there was a tremendous atmosphere in the ground and it was an exciting game to watch. Most of our Bhoys played well but thought that James Forrest looked out of sorts today and could have been subbed early in second half. However, it’s Christmas, we’re top of the league with a four point cushion and Sevco are skintus maximus.
Hail! Hail!
What a sitter missed by Sunderland….
Why does James Forrest have a Gary Glitter haircut?
wish we could get Fletcher fae sunderland
‘GG
It is more ingrained than that. LG gets booked for a challenge that was less than Dillions challenge on Guidetti. So why was he booked ? Because it broke up a good threatening Utd. attack.
JH
Sandman
I am not being cheeky.
How would you know that Ciftci was consistent?
Have you seen United often enough?
Based on seeing them in previous performances against Celtic, I would not be in favour of signing any United player. Armstrong and Makay Stevens have rarely showed up in those games and Ciftic has been anonymous in a few.
Today was probably the best performance by both Ciftci and Armstrong against us but they both played in a team that, on balance of play, should have lost by 2 clear goals.
Well if anyone thinks our forwards are bad look at that miss
I may even have scored with that, on one of my better days, 50 years ago.
Watched Armstrong today. We need a proper central mid general who can pass a ball and set our tempo. Given that United sat back so much, it was impossible to really judge him in that respect. However, from what I saw, h
I was not blown away by him
setting free the bears@14.36…I agree. The fans would say what managers can’t but we would have a lot of bleeping with the responses.
Like other posters have said well done to our away fans,you
shame me with your commitment to our club.just hope the
high heid yins give you a striker you deserve.
Has anyone heard from
TRAVELLER BHOY
Lately.
we were cheated..and a few players didn’t turn up JF and JG
mike in toronto
14:38 on
21 December, 2014
You are right about Guidetti, buy I think he needs a break and give LG a starting slot, see what happens. I think all four of our strikers JG, Anton, LG and Stefan are all talented, maybe we need to find the right combination
HH
gsu
Fekin usual suspects on again.Give you the dry boak listening to them.Win or lose,they are at it.
Best game of the season.Some of our play terrific,some careless.Like most teams.I have been saying for yonks Efe should be nowhere near our CH positions.Mathews still looks a shadow of the player we signed.Why?.Who knows.Some blaming Izzy for the second goal!!!!!!.If a big,strong,skilfull,player is never allowed to beat you,WTF.Its normal.Its football.Too much dissecting of players.You are not on a TV panel.
JG being shot down now.Scepovic must get a game they shout.Not that a couple of weeks ago.Fickle as fek.
Leave it to the manager and stop talking kak.
Just for the record,the linesman chalked the goal off,not the ref,who I did not see do too much wrong.But we got beat,so its the MIB fault,not as Ronnie says,ourselves missing too many chances.
Cifti played well today but I don’t think that he is mobile enough. There is no way that he is as good as Gueditti although that decision would not be based on today’s evidence alone.
Time for perspective this last three matches we have created loads of chances but had no one to bury them. I would give Griffiths a run in the team as I feel he is our most natural finisher.
On the MIBs. How was the Stefan goal not given? Linesman right in line, blatant cheating. For those wishing the new Huns back into the league that will be your dinner.
Down and despondent but not in despair.
Sean Maloney on for Newcastle
Should have been but wasn’t our day. Still too much poor passing, players not attacking the ball but waiting for it to come to them whereas DU chased the ball. One striker left isolated and well managed by defence, and others weak performers does not give us a cutting edge superiority despite all the chances we create. Time for LG and SS partnership?
We lost borh goals from the left side today. Too much is being asked of Izzy. If he managed to improve his delivery it might not be so telling.
HH
pfayr..,
If he’s no seen the video footage showing how unambiguous the offence was I expect he’d have complained, taking a commentators word for it is a completely different thing.
He may have been told to take it on the chin though.
MIT- Armstrong is worth a punt,but wouldn’t spend too much on him.I wouldn’t spend more than a million on any SPFL player
So, is Anthony officially a winger now?
It was never a penalty seems when nothing go right for us .the huns official s get it wrong.cheats etc etc. That old record has played its last tune
Bit boring at times same same all .listen to Ronny’s interview he tells you how we got beat this afternoon. Says it all.
See the officials and the masons are getting tight .FFS it was just one of them days.but Ambrose needs moved on.James Forrest makes bad decisions at times.Bitton like Chris is a bit slow at times
also Guidette 3million at this time no
First and 1,000th posts btw!!!!
DNZ oh dear lots of people criticising players. Should they all be banned from the blog?
PFayr we can’t complain when we sign up to being cheated. After all it keeps the league competitive no?
You can’t blame the referee for the disallowed goal – it was 100% the linesman’s call and he got it badly wrong. All this mibbery stuff does my head in. It’s as bad as the rigged draw garbage when sevco get a home cup tie against a low level opponents.
Bottom line is we ought to have won the game regardless of that decision. Ambrose’s performance was frankly embarrassing.
I actually enjoyed the game even though we lost. We’ll still win the league by a distance.
When I saw who the officials were before the game I told the missus what the outcome would be I was not disappointed. Apologies to Paul 67. DIRTY CHEATING ORANGE MASONIC BASTARDS.
One good thing from today is that both Griffith and Scepcovic showed they know how to put the ball in the net. I hope that gives RD pause to think.
The lack of a comfortable goalscorer makes games tighter than they might otherwise be.
Guedtti disappoints me in his jousts with CBs who often go past him to get the ball first when he should be blocking them.
This was not a game that left me groaning at poor play ( apart from one or two miss hit passes when no pressure) but the longer it went without us converting the chances the more I could see a defeat.
DU defended well after first 15 mins with 10 men behind the ball and a second mugging was always possible.
In situations like that referee decisions can cost points and so it turned out.
McLean is a wrong un. You can tell, even when the “h” has fallen off.
What we have seen today is all Neil Lennon’s fault.
I joke of course, but there is some truth in it.
Teams play against us the way we played against Barcelona. Two tight well drilled defensive lines ready to counter at speed, and a bit of luck. Cost of the squad doesn’t come into it, there are some days where the team of who on paper are weaker get the result due to hard work, some luck and the odd mistake.
Today was that day for Dundee Utd, there will be others this season and do you know why? Neil Lennon showed them how to do it.
We lost today, we were always going to lose to someone in this league…we are the best team in the league…just not by a distance…lets see how the team reacts….
guid(etti) hidings we bring
14:46 on 21 December, 2014
Sean Maloney on for Newcastle
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Maloney with facial hair?
It’s like James Forrest playing. Father Christmas. Hard to believe.
Sipsini,
I’m on about Ciftci wriggling away from Izzaguire with his back to goal on the byeline and getting his cross to Armstrong.No defender should be allowing an attacker to bully him like that.
I think it was Ciftci.
Joe Filippis Haircut (14:16) [and others], an alternative interpretation of some aspects of the game…
DU’s first:
The ball was played into the centre by Armstrong and deflected off a Celtic player (Bitton?), changing the trajectory of the ball. Big Efe was moving in a direction towards the initial trajectory of the ball, with all his momentum going in that direction.
As a result of the deflection he had to try to change direction in an instant, but with his size and weight he was unable to do so, and just missed making contact with the ball with a desperately outstretched leg. He then managed to get goalside of Ciftci and attempted to prevent a clear shot at goal, but Ciftci just managed to steer the ball around Efe, an inch beyond Gordon’s fingertips, and just inside the far post.
It was a very well taken goal by Ciftci, and I think the level of criticism against Efe is somewhat over the top. We could equally expect Gordon to have got a hand to the shot and pushed it away. The wayward pass in midfield which handed over possession to DU in the first place seems to have completely escaped criticism!
DU’s second:
When the ball floated over Matthews’ head to the unmarked Armstrong at the back post, Matthews threw his arms in the air in frustration that none of his team-mates were covering the DU player.
But as Armstrong was attacking from Celtic’s right back position, should Matthews not have been marking him, rather than being sucked across to a position to the left of the centre of the Celtic goal? Surely VVD should be covering that area, rather than standing in no man’s land on the edge of the six yard box, picking up no-one.
I expect to see defenders following the ball and being pulled out of position like that in amateur games, but at this level the defenders should have more awareness of the attacking players’ positions, and the Celtic midfielders should be offering more cover to avoid the defence being pulled out of shape.
We have the same number of players as the opposition, and our players only have to run the same amount as their opponents in order to cover them, so there shouldn’t really be unmarked opponents inside the Celtic penalty area.
There were many aspects to both of the DU goals, and I feel it is unfair to blame a single player for either of them.
Awe_Naw..,
Like I said at the time, we lost the first goal through VvD sleeping failing to keep the line, Efe tried to run out and clear the ball, had VvD kept up the player would have been offside and no need to try and recover the ball, but he did and was unlucky
Ronny out☺☺☺
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier
14:48 on
21 December, 2014
First and 1,000th posts btw!!!!
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eff me my journey too sadbastardville picks
up pace.