No one said management was easy. Neil Lennon has spent the best part of a year preparing for this game. The scouts were told to go out and find pace up front which would allow us to defend in numbers but break effectively when possible.
That plan brought Derk Boerrigter and Teemu Pukki to the club but Derk has only recently returned from injury while Teemu made his debut on Saturday. Meanwhile, Anthony Stokes has been busy making himself the heart of the team. If Anthony was having a stinker of a season Neil Lennon would deploy the plan which has been long in gestation, but, unlike his opposite number tonight, Neil has genuine choice.
Before kick-off, there is no correct decision to this choice, hindsight will provide that answer, but we should remember that this is a squad game. Players tire and performance falls late in the game. Nine years ago we were within touching distance of a great result away to Milan but attempts to shore up the defence in the closing minutes failed. If Celtic are in a position to take something from the game, they will have to plan for a 95 minute endurance exercise.
The margins for error in this competition are slight. We matched Juventus in many areas of the field last season but were walloped 5-0 on aggregate. Some fine teams found the step up to the big stage a harrowing experience last night but other smaller clubs got it right; Copenhagen made Italian champions, Juve, look ordinary.
The task ahead is formidable but get the plan right and the spoils are there for us.
Prediction: 0-2 to the good guys. Enjoy your night.
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Celtic will get goal chances to-night, let’s hope the Hoops can put them away and all will be fine. A point would be fantastic.
Morissey/Medtim,
Yer champions.
Hail Hail
Really looking forward to seeing how the new bhoys react to CL football
Despite all the talk about Milan’s weaknesses -I would very happily take a draw right now
Good luck bhoys!
Make us proud and enjoy yourselves!
HH
Morrissey the 23rd
I admire the time and energy you are spending, trying to get the shareholders Canamalar needs. I don’t own shares, but have passed your details to family and friends who do. Good luck to you both and the Celtic tonight.
HH
Remember this AC mob will
Pull, bite ,scratch,push and try and pull every other stroke in the book to win:((.
We will have to wise up tonight ,they may be weakened but you dont play for A.C Milan and be a poor player (IMHO)
Off to watch, so enjoy getting put through every emotion there is tonight :))
what will be will be csc
but pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease make it 2-1 the hoops.
COYBIG
Seem to have stopped the habit of conceding an early goal away in Europe – hope that continues. Think we’ll get a 1-1. Cmon the hoops!
Morrissey/Canamalar
Resurrected post on The Huddleboard done along with a wee rallying call.
Fingers crossed.
Agree with you canamalar re tonight.Our biggest and most important achievement was to get to the group stages.We can now go out and express ourselves (without being stupid or unprofessional) without fear.
Hail Hail
medtim
75 minutes
Yes Celtic Yes…
It’s cheaper and quicker to buy shares through a broker than buy an individual share through the novelty purchase outlets.
Single ordinary share through a novelty seller typically £50, mental eh
Anyone suspecting a present of a share should know this and make it known, not as anything like a hint but simply to warn of rip off.
Hail Hail
Chico all over the place. Saying it’s a big risk to play the same centre-back combination as Karagandy away. Then says Charlie played centre-back in the home leg.
bournesouprecipe
17:12 on
18 September, 2013
Duomo di Milano
*****
That’s one busy looking Mass.
Shades of Lisbon’67
Looking forward to the game , we will do fine . IF , we find our players with our passes . IF effie concentrates 100% . And IF sammi turns up .
Cetlic 4-2-3-1 (the gospel according to Clyde Wan)
Forster
Lustig Efe Virgil Izzy
Brown Mulgrew
Matthews Commons Sammi
Stokes
Mon the ‘Tic!
One hour and six minutes until we hear ZTP ring out as our CL campaign begins in earnest. Time to sort out the beers, don the onsie, send mrs acgr to another room and settle down with my bhoy to watch Neil Lennon and our champions make us proud in Europe once more.
£20 on the away win at 6/1
Mon the Hoops
Celtic
robinbhoy – supporting wee oscar and mackenzie
18:16 on 18 September, 2013
Celbridge Celt
Its not really an Irish pub perse and you are likely to get German and English football. I would ask first. Best bet might be:
Oscar Wilde Irish Pub
Friedrichstraße 112A
10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 282 81 66
Cheers Robinbhoy, yeah, got the word on Oscar Wilde… The fact it listed Arsenal & I think Napoli game with 3rd TBA made my mind up… The bar in Europa centre is near Hotel & barman gave us the thumbs up.
So not going to travel and beg for the wee telly… Get enough of that in Ireland these days… And who provides the excitement? The lads from the “poor table”…! Anybody says to you tomorrow “what a performance” tell them to go buy a Jersey and join in or shut up!
Warming up…. Too much Vino… Not sure it’ll mix with the dark beer… Ho hum, my visit to gym will be interesting tomorrow… I can see me doing a Tomlinson!
HAIL HAIL…
Hoping dbbia has picked up a few more story’s about how Anthony Stokes saved the day and created Celtic love in far off lands with his quick thinking and distraction during medical or any other emergency predicaments.
They’re my favourite :o)
Glad to Izzy in there, he can really put pressure on the full back by getting forward and feeding Sammi..
Celbridge – stick to white stuff!
Like to think of myself as a good dad. And a man who values the gift if education. But must confess that I’m sitting here chiding the wee man to finish his homework while playing Just Can’t Enough on the iPhone!
Perhaps it’s a night for a different form of life long learning! C’mon the Hoops!
Bier that is!
‘Of education’ even!
Ohhhhhhhh
Before I go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgomX3qD-iA
A Ceiler Gonof Rust & starry plough forza oscar
Here we go csc :)))
Good team to start. Our bench looks great, all game changers.
Nice – Just found a channel in my Directv package that are showing the game live in glorious HD.
Would be over the moon with a point from tonight, but the first game in the division is the best chance to get an unexpected result. Show ACM respect but not too much. Go after them and don’t let them settle. A high tempo will provide our best chance of a win.
Good luck to the Bhoys.
Rocket man,
If that’s the team I’m chuffed,
Both Stokesy and Commons is an attacking team,
Is this Friday cause I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it
Leftclicktic…
All aboard the Celtic Roller Coaster is about to depart…
Forster;
Lustig, Van Dijk, Ambrose, Izaguirre;
Matthews, Brown, Mulgrew, Samaras;
Commons, Stokes
subs: Zaluska, Pukki, Rogic,
Boerrigter, Balde, McGeouch, Biton.
I am very confident we won`t lose tonight. Real confidence; not the bluster type.
To achieve a result, though, I don`t want a park-the-bus approach. Remember the peerless Jock Stein`s words about not just winning the Big Cup, but winning it whilst playing beautiful, attacking football. That is the Celtic way and is one of the reasons they are my team.Of course I don`t expect such a performance from this young team . Indeed, I think 0-0 is quite likely but not a dour 0-0…..a Glasgow Celtic, entertaining 0-0 !
JJ
Ooft – 2nd starting XI pinkety with Lenny.
Breakthrough season for up_over_goal
rocket man
18:41 on 18 September, 2013
Bier that is!
I’m glad you clarified… :o) was looking out for my man… The dark is weaker though, but can see it putting in a bad defensive tackle… From behind!
Time to don the colours… Safe watching Celtic, my brethren across the World… Europe is Green & White tonight.
Anto up front yes
Bummer that Ledley didn’t make it. We will miss his energy in midfield
Happy with the look of that team – big questions for me were whether Ledley would make it and whether to play Stokes or Pukki up front. I expect we will see Pukki and possibly Boerrigter in the last 20 minutes.
The San Siro still empty.
The San Paolo in Napoli looks almost full.
HH!!
asonofdan
7 subs?
mulgrew winner in the 89th minute
Find myself in the “west end” of glasgow for the first time in Decades
Any suggestions where best to watch the match?
TIA
CB