Form vagaries of Malmo for Celtic

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Celtic will play Malmo in the Champions League play-off round, the third time since 2012 they will face champions from Sweden. The main concern for Ronny Deila is the manner in which Malmo disposed of Salzburg 3-0 on Wednesday night, but there is context to put that into. In the previous round the Swedes only managed a 0-0 at home to Lithuanians Zalgiris Vilnius, before winning 0-1 away.

Those three goals against Salzburg, which arrived inside 45 minutes, will be the subject of a lot of research over the next few days.

In 2013 Celtic struggled to blow away the cobwebs against Elfsborg, recording a 1-0 home win and a 0-0 draw away. A year earlier they beat Helsingborgs 2-0 home and away.

The most encouraging aspect for Ronny will be Malmo’s domestic form. They are current 6th in the Allsvenskan after 18 games and will struggle to qualify for Europe next season. A home game against league leaders Gothenburg on Sunday will be Celtic’s most important reconnaissance exercise.

Oh, and put out the flags, Malmo play on grass!!

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  1. DD,

     

     

    I’ll try, not sure the site will let me on this tab…..

     

    away for a techno adventure ;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  2. Delaneys Dunky on

    The Maccabees new album is the best record I have listened to in a long time.

     

    The Marks to Prove It!

  3. Dear Yaweh,

     

     

    I’m now at

     

    1st page of this article…..wtf…..as requested hopefully ;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  4. Bmcuwp,

     

     

    Thawt u wer on a split shift? Slow news nite? Be a member of the SMS & make it up ,;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  5. I appreciate that this is maybe the wrong time/place…..I maybe need some help with a job interview…..am sure somebody can help…..with DWP..Universal Credit job interview in my future?

     

     

    H.H.

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    THELURKINTIM

     

     

    Split shift is Thursday only.

     

     

    Wee break at the moment,cigarette,coffee,CQN.

  7. Just read back through DavieL’s post on page one of last thread….

     

    New year game against Hearts. Remember it vividly for waking up late seeing we were losing and my Mrs saying just go the The Parlour, game is not over yet, they can still win. Bless her she was right!!! Great morning was had. Reading through CQN of 10 years ago was strange. Reading familiar names now gone, the ability to remove your own post (priceless) and complaints about Ch67 from MacUsers.

     

     

    Time goes too fast….10 years?

     

     

    Anyways enough reminiscing….

     

    A wee tune for my mood..

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRzORqNa0E&sns=em

     

     

     

     

    BTW Paul 67

     

    In future… Long summer months could be filled with some of the CQN Celtic highlights from previous years… Would make fun reading in the close season….

     

     

    SanFran where are you now…?

     

     

    HH

  8. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    As I’ve just made a cod of myself trying to embed a link into a mail,this is a test.

     

     

    Darn good song,mind!

     

     

    felt

  9. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Hmmm…

     

     

    Embedded links don’t work on e-mails,just found out the hard way!

  10. Just lying in a hospital bed in Canada after second knee replacement, went much better than first, so far. Not easy trying to sleep, so I pulled out el android and thought I try navigating through the new look CQN.

     

    I think Malmo is a great draw for us, better travel and better pitch, better competition, whtz not to like

     

     

    HH

     

    gsu

  11. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    GSU

     

    You’ll be up and about in no time again

     

    Take care KTF

  12. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Quick brouse through Twitter shows st mirren fanns locked in at iPox for their own safety and Peter Martin threatening to sue some Orc for spreading lies

     

    Nothing changes

  13. skyisalandfill on

    Morning . Lovely day in Elgin.

     

     

    I don’t think Thompson deliberately missed that penalty. No idea if yes a hun or not.

     

     

    The explanation is he’s Raphael.

     

     

    Sleep now after nightshift.

     

     

    HH

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    bought a new pair of guttys yesterday

     

     

    just looked at the outside of the box

     

     

    it says “average contents = 2”

     

     

    eh? i should think so!

  15. Jungle Jim Hot Smoked on

    Foghorn

     

    Sometime, something is lost in translation:

     

     

    “In a lift in a Japanese hotel:

     

    Push this button in case anything happens.”

     

     

    JJ