After losing the second leg against Salzburg in last season’s Champions League 3rd qualifying round, Qarabag eliminated Twente Enschede on away goals before having a good Europa League group stage.
Draws home and away to Saint Etienne, a home draw against Inter after a two goal defeat in the San Siro, and a win and a loss against Dnipro is enough form to suggest Celtic have a match on their hands.
On the positive side, Qarabag are also preseason, play on grass and Baku, their home city, is four hours ahead of Glasgow, so they will have a small jetlag adjustment to make for Wednesday’s game. The final whistle will go after 1:30 in the morning Baku time. Players find the latter part of any big game tiring, more so early in the season, so we have to push hard late in this game. Qarabag will be vulnerable as concentration wanes and legs get heavy.
This tie feels very much like the Shakhter Karagandy play-off tie two years ago. Shakhter arrived with a solid two goal lead, but an impassioned Celtic Park pushed us over the line. A similar intensity will be required on and off the field on Wednesday.
What’s our chances? Not sure, but we’ve a serious challenge on our hands.
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Morning all.
Slightly disappointed that Liam H is going out on loan again. Have high hopes for the bhoy.
Is it a season-long loan or until January?
Besta luck to the bhoy anyway.
HH!!
Loyal a
Passed on your email to Lennybhoy
Think paddy will be in touch soon
Kitalba
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I think the pitch will be slippy enough tomorrow for us, but I’m not sure if our visitors will appreciate it :)
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Thanks, desertbhoy. I am stuck on biz in Saudi today so no chance with the Azb visa. Disappointed the wee mhan but I’ll make it up over the season. HH
BT
I share your disappointment if it’s true about Liam going on loan.
Liam has showed in his few appearances he has the quality to play in our first team.
Get the feeling that he might be another who gets moved on permanently .
I wouldn’t argue with RD but it’s a long season and I think we should benefit from Liam playing for us not Dundee UTD.
Above all Liam has the potential to be a great
HH
Visa refusal story?
Nothing like that happened.
One of the Azerbijani who played for the team in the other country came back and signed for Quarabakh. Everybody knew, due to the paper work the player could not be in the sqad for the first game. He was given green light from UEFA only yesterday.
The other problem is, the guy is phisicaly not ready for the first game against Celtic.
This is all truth, not newspapers “facts”.
where’s Lennybhoy? he gave us some info from last monday saying new left back by end of the week! what’s happened? we need this left back especially with mulgrew now struggling……..disappointed we are allowing wee liam to go on loan….maybe laking room for Allan from hibs???????
i have said it before and i will say it again
dont eat yellow snow
and liam wont play another first team competitive match for us again
just my opinion
I would say that I think RD knows what he wants, and what he is doing with the boy, only he knows what is good for Celtic and the boy at this moment in time, the rest is pure speculation, and opinions, but! That’s only what I think.
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
09:26 on 28 July, 2015
TTT
I appreciate that part of it but what about the deadwood?
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Good point. Below is the official site squad list of our midfielders. (Charlie is listed as a defender btw). We could easily trim 4 names off this roster and not be at all weakened.
Ronny’s assessment must be LH won’t get enough game time with the competition in the squad.
Like you, I’m dissapointed if he goes, but a 30+ first team starts at utd might be better for his development.
Midfielders
6. N. BITTON
8. S. BROWN
11. D. BOERRIGTER
14. S. ARMSTRONG
15. K. COMMONS
16. G. MACKAY-STEVEN
18. T. ROGIC
25. S. JOHANSEN
36. J. IRVINE
42. C. MCGREGOR
46. D. MCGEOUCH
49. J. FORREST
ger57
Thanks
Zbyszek
….and thanks for the `true` story!
JJ
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foghorn leghorn…..thats total crap m8…….liam has a future with us…i have no doubts about that!!
gcctim
09:40 on
28 July, 2015
Thanks, desertbhoy. I am stuck on biz in Saudi today so no chance with the Azb visa. Disappointed the wee mhan but I’ll make it up over the season. HH
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still might be worth giving them a call… mine was a multi entry visa.
HH
Pity Henderson is going on loan again
We could have done with him against Inverness in the semi in April wish him well all the same seems a sensible young man
BT,
I think that Deadwood is difficult to move out, if they are still on contract and no other club wants them.
The player also has to agree.
We have to respect any person’s employment rights.
One or two have suggested that Liam won’t play for Celtic again.
Is that just a feeling they gave, or is it some background knowledge they have of a ” leetle problem”.
Whatever the reason, the boss obviously thinks that Henderson and Celtic’s best interests lie in another loan spell.
Personally, I don’t think the boy is physically developed enough to hold down a first team place with us and, as I suggested earlier, he has the too much ability to be an occasional first pick.
He is still very young and possibly still growing. I would prefer to see him nurtured until he is physically and mentally ready got our first team.
What a beautiful day for shoving a sandwich down rudolf nurievs tights and saying how’s that for a packed lunch
KenDoddcsc
…at the time there was a Caspian Fish Conference on so might still have time.
Winning Captains
I’m having problems with that cqn web you keep posting, it doesent work for me, and I have to keep on signing in here after I go on it, but it won’t let me read the story when I’m on it, if that. any sense ?
stirlingbhoy
09:52 on 28 July, 2015
foghorn leghorn…..thats total crap m8…….liam has a future with us…i have no doubts about that!!
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at ease private
just my opinion
im not saying he doesnt or wont have the ability to play regularly for us
i just get bad vibes about the continuous loan thing
i have a feeling we will always be signing players for ‘big’ money who are likely to get a game ahead of him so he will become surplus to requirements
so you cant say its ‘total crap’ unless you can see into the future
Our starting 11 from last years home game vs Maribor.
Celtic (4-3-3): Gordon; Ambrose, Lustig, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Kayal, Mulgrew, Johansen; McGregor, Stokes, Berget.
Subs: Zaluska, Denayer, Bitton, Commons, Griffiths, Boerrigter, Matthews
More confident that this years starting 11 will be a bit stronger!
Corkcelt @ 9:07 I’m afraid if we get through thistie we are only guaranteed another 2 games, get through that one and we are in the champion league proper and guaranteed another 6 games, here’s hoping. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Don’t understand the fascination with guidetti he’s gone move on
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Couple of typos, buy, hey, you are all smart enough to get my gist!
Ooops this tie
I would agree with some on here about Henderson, it’s all about development.
…b4 any smarterse comments…there are no talking fish!!
Hebcelt,
I think Corkcelt was alluding to automatic Europa League group stage if a club gets knocked out in the knock out round.
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Burghbhoy
09:40 on
28 July, 2015
As a 19 year old Liam Henderson needs regular first team football to develop into the player we all hope he will become. Moving out on loan for a season is more beneficial to the bhoy than playing Development Squad games and occasional first team appearances with us this season. He’s not going to be a first team regular, who would you drop in first eleven to accommodate him?
Perhaps this time next year it’ll be Nir Bitton or Stefan Johansen ready to move on to pastures new, Liam Henderson with a good season behind him at the likes of DU would then be ready to step up to become a first team regular for us.