KR Reykjavík recorded a 0-2 win in the Icelandic Cup on Sunday and have one more league game, against bottom club Thor on Thursday, before facing Celtic on Champions League duty a week today.
Celtic have a game this evening against LSK Linz before facing a famous name from our past, Dukla Prague, on Friday. While the world will be coming through a World Cup climb down Celtic will be facing a committed team in the mid-Atlantic. There is no room for complacency.
Next week’s qualifier has all the potential to cause a fright. Ronny Deila will by now know all about Gordon Strachan’s competitive start at Celtic, which cast a shadow he never completely shook off, so it is absolutely critical the manager gets us playing the way he wants us tonight.
Ross McCormack’s route from Murray Park reject at 19 eight years ago to a player Fulham have just bid £11m for is worthy of consideration. It’s easy for us to point to how Rangers ruined young talented footballers but the stark truth is that for well over a decade Celtic had vastly better youth talent that Rangers but failed to graduate anything like as many as we should have.
McCormack had to go to Motherwell, a club well experienced at nurturing talent, to build his career, but he would have fared no better at Celtic. Having no space for youth is one of the many unhealthy consequences of having two massive clubs engaged in a football arms race. Our game was destined to destroy talent.
Fortunately, the man who loaned his name to Murray Park ensured that arms race would end in spectacular fashion, when he sold his club’s assets and liabilities to a liquidation specialist for £1. In a perverse sort of way, Scottish football should thank him.
Thank you to everyone who supported CQN’s efforts for Glasgow the Caring City and The Cookie Jar Foundation, especially the reader who paid an incredible £530 for the signed European Cup canvas. You are all a credit to our club.
Best wishes to Argentina tomorrow, I hope the overcome Netherlands for the memory of the first worldwide football hero they gave the game, Alfredo Di Stefano.
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Tony Watt will get a game when the manager thinks he is ready, I don’t get it, what part of that don’t people get? Looking for trouble in all the wrong places is a CQN habit .
Rwe
Really made me smile mhate!
HH jamesgang
5!!!
Goal by Griffiths
Nice 2-5
Griffiths scores
LG scores another good goal.
jackson irvine – thanks!
Leigh scores a a beauty 5-2
Good goal griffiths.
We have really tightened up since the sending off and now appear to be controlling the game!
BOOM 5-2
5-2 LG
Take that, you Austrian MIB.
Lovely footwork and great one touch for that goal
Nice finish from LG
5-2
Not good news for Broonie…
McGeouch has looked a lot better in the last 20 mins.in the centre of midfield.
Dodgy off side call I thought
Teemu 3, Amido 1, Leigh 1, cue Sydney Whim and co. going intae melt down :-)))))
LG covers tonight’s WC bets – 4/1 (in-play) Celtic to score 7th goal. :-)
All over.
Easy meat comonthetic
Lovely pass from McGeogh but lhad McElduff was considered offside. Unlucky. Great football. 5-2 @ FT.
5 2 but still thought it was Lack Lustre at Lask Linz.
Thoroughly enjoyed that game
I wouldn’t have shaken hands with that fud of a referee. Hope Ronny Delia makes a comment about him.
td67
The part I don’t get is why is he less ready, in the managers opinion, than all the other players? There can’t be many on tour who have yet to play a part of a game.
Reykjavik 1 up at home.
“10 men Celtic struggle in Europe”
Headline courtesy of DR.
Now a quick bit of inter game hostility and mon the gerries.
HH
I expect Watt is still in the doghouse with the executive rather than the coaching staff
Well done Bhoys
A good work-out for mainly squad players.
O’Connell was the best of the young defenders. Herron did OK after coming on as a late sub.
Findlay and Waters not ready for the 1st team
Henderson was running the game till the referee decided he was too good.
Biton had a good first half.
Ronny D. has realized what was obvious to many others: Dylan McGeoch is not a winger but a midfielder. Dylan had an excellent game, replicating Henderson’s play.
Teemu is a strange one. A great finisher, but is very easily brushed off the ball. Ditto Leigh Griffiths.
Looks like everyone has had game time except Tony Watt and Darnell Fisher.
Red card ,,, two goals lost …
I can see the headlines now
Played brilliantly after our best player was sent off by a clown of a ref. Griffiths had a very good second half. Obviously young defenders need to play with an established defender. We made a few comical errors at the back but that wouldn’t bother me in the least as we would never play a competitive game with an entire rookie defence. I know TD67 is trying to shush us but I think there is a valid point as to why Watt has not got any game time. He is away more experienced than a dozen or more of the lads who have played
Well done, Bhoys! Cheers to all for the updates (and the perfect comic timing!)
Thought Dylan was fantastic ran the Austrians ragged, has the pace that we miss in midfield.
Teemu and Leigh were also in form tonight, as a whole these young players are promising.
would like to see Dylan starting in midfield against Dresden along with Tony up front along side Teemu.
KTF
I think Ronny D. is right to use Griffiths as a right winger, where he can cut inside and shoot with his left foot. He is too lightweight to play as a striker in Europe.
But if we are going to play with two wide players, we need someone else on the left, as Derk B. is clearly not good enough. Twardzik would be better.
Henderson is well worth a starting place in Iceland. Hope the crazy red card has no repercussions.
Got to say, the bhoy Henderson was easily motm, this looks like a class player
Supersutton
He will get his chance, only a matter of time,Ronny might be playing with his head, who knows?