In an already-impressive season, Celtic’s demolition of Aberdeen at Hampden was an exceptional display. It took until the 29th minute for Kyogo to open the scoring, but the tone of the game was evident from the opening seconds. Celtic bossed the match throughout and it was only a matter of time before the goals came.
Last week we discussed that Aberdeen had not, until then, played two games in a week since July. That extra game midweek may have taken its toll, although Jimmy Thelin was having none of it, excuses were refreshingly batted away. What is clear is that Aberdeen looked like one of the poorer sides we have faced this season. Their next outing (home to Dundee on Saturday) will have added importance.
After an indifferent opening period, when he fluffed crosses and twice failed to connect with an attempt on goal, the semifinal became the Daizen Maeda Show. Hampden is big and Aberdeen made the mistake of competing against Celtic high up the field. This allowed Daizen to burst into space like no one else in our game can. Three goals and an assist was an appropriate award.
Arne Engels is another who enjoyed covering the “one neutral acre” of Glasgow. His relentless pressing and tracking back stopped Aberdeen from settling into any kind of pattern of play. His corner kicks are also proving valuable, as Cameron Carter-Vickers demonstrated with the opening goal.
The script is written for Celtic to take the final next month, but I’ve seen too many defeats to Oldco in League Cup Finals to be complacent. Celtic’s major trophy haul currently equals that of the various Rangerses (Old, New; even Berwick and Cove).
We are going to overtake their figure soon, but it would be appropriate to have them there to bear witness to the historic event.
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Election day eve!
Rage against the machine!
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HH!
Afternoon all
Most of what people call AI is Artificial but not Intelligent
Jinky
Hope you’re not suggesting (AI)pple is artificial or lacks intelligence 🤔
Although his podium success is eerily consistent.
JINKYREDSTAR on 4TH NOVEMBER 2024 12:04 PM
“Most of what people call AI is Artificial but not Intelligent”
:))))))))))) por cierto
P67
Good to read another positive recollection of the match – Charlie Mulgrew had me doubting my own eyes.
For Engels, thought he worked hard throughout and had a great game after a few less impressive showings.
“His corner kicks are also proving valuable, as Cameron Carter-Vickers demonstrated with the opening goal.”
Am I right in thinking that’s his 2nd direct assist from a corner (Scales with the other?) this season?
I’ve read a few comments on here and elsewhere to take him off corners – has anyone seen any figures so far to compare him to some of our dead ball specialists (Naka, Thompson, Griffiths etc) from the recent past?
I am not quite expecting a goal as I often would with Griff and Boyata but he seems reasonably proficient to me given we don’t have the biggest of teams when attacking set pieces.
QB
Snoop Dog to invest in Celtic…….50 Cent will buy sevco.
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Celtic/Celtic-change-kits.html
Gene :-)
The eminent Aipple was not in my sights – podiums are a bit dodgy – time travel suspected!
I’d had a few beers before the game whilst watching the rugby, but I must have been blootered to mix up CCV with Kyogo 😂
The article seems to suggest we had two opening goals by 2 different scorers.
BIG JIMMY @ 11:56
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Good summary Paul, including the caveat at the end.
One pedantic point though – the ‘neutral’ playing surface is more of a hectare than an acre (2.5 acres per hectare).
Fabulous stuff from Brendan and the Bhoys.
Ave Ave
Celtic are maturing as a football club and team and if they keep up their upwards trajectory both domestically and in Europe (Dortmund blip aside) I can see them being a real force to be reckoned with very soon.
I can see a positive result for Celtic Tuesday evening no mistake. . .or maybe I’m getting carried away after that great display of football on Saturday.
It was easy on the eye and very good to watch such a masterclass against the second best team in Scotland.
Quadbhoy from old/p67
Celebrate attaining our own goals,setting our own standards and improving on those high standards.
GIve no acknowledgement to anything of them other than beaten finalists
We work to hard for what we achieve and we go forward to the next trophy after that,relentless and untiring,that will get to the core of their cranium a lot more than adopting their hubris and wuruld records.
Have none of it,they are an opponent,a diminishing one at that as figures show in the future.
We owe it to generations past,20s,30s right up to Jock who had same institutional bias, hubris and superiority harvested by Sir Hunner of Pence fronted to them by Primrose are et al,As Div the spiv ended them as society deemed they were not the peepil they were naughty fraudulent tax avoiding criminals.
Forward with the good ship Celtica Quadbhoy and Paul67 we do not need to give them oxygen
Hail Gai
Playing some really good stuff this season. Keep improving and we might start inching towards Strachan levels…
Bring on the Leipzig!
Be interesting to know what the combined trophy haul of Hearts and St Mirren is.
Actually, no it wouldn’t!
JINKYREDSTAR and GENE
Cannot compute.
Paul 67
Could have sworn we played in midweek as well, and how did Brendan’s squad management
work out ?
Paul 67,
Frankly i couldn’t believe what I was seeing. A magnificent performance and result.
Squad rotation with a horses for courses approach.
We absolutely destroyed Aberdeen and it was a reality check that hit them square in the coupon.
Our work rate was phenomenal and it totally demoralised the opposition.
However, I have many friends in Aberdeen and the talk is that the delay mentally destablised them after a physically and mentally midweek game.
This is of course rubbish, but the fact the game was delayed by illegal actions merits a discussion.
I must admit I quite like the ” spectacle ” that flares can achieve. So called safe pyro areas and technology must be debated.
But on Saturday the ultras basically set of coordinated flares in the whole end. I know many who were caught up in the smoke and didn’t like it. Some were frightened.
That can’t be right.
HH, the journey continues
If anyone wants to add the trophies of both Rangers together then fair enough. I don’t really see the relevance or the history behind such a stat.
It’s Cup Final so it’s there to be won. As for the Huns, I won’t indulge their continuity myth by going on about us overtaking them.
As a fan now in his 50s, I grew up expecting derby games to be tight and mostly unpredictable. Winning at home or losing at Ibrox was rarely a big surprise. Hampden? toss a coin.
Younger fans now don’t know that kind of uncertainty. The scales are tipped so far in our favour over recent seasons that they must wonder why some of us still see these games as too tight to call. As many of you have said, if we show up we win. Of course if we don’t show up we could also lose. Sport, regardless of the odds, throws up the occasional shock result.
We can be grateful that in Brendan, we have a manager who ensures we rarely fail when it matters against them.
Nevertheless, I will still have butterflies come the LC final unless we are 3 goals up on them. It’s hard wired into me. And even if we stuff them, I’ll be just as uncertain for the NY game at Ibrox. Memories of beating them 6-2 and then losing 5-1 under MoN are still fresh in the memory even though, in reality, it is from a bygone era.
Oh to be young(er). 😃
Good afternoon all from the Victoria Bar. Still no sign of the handsome hun. My quest continues…..
Our three top Japanese players have done us more than proud from the moment they signed for us. Paul mentions that Maeda missed a couple of early chances – well OK agree. Sometimes Kyogo misses the odd ‘snip’ and Reo can blow hot and cold at times. All three are probably 5%/10% shy of real world class – rest assured if that gap wasn’t there they’d be playing for Barca, Real, Man City, or. the like. I am so glad we have them here at Celtic Park, slightly imperfect as they may be.
Perhaps over time the Dortmund result may be seen as a blessing in disguise and not the disaster that it seemed to be a few weeks back. Under Brendan we have been on the wrong end of a few skelpings in Europe and it seemed that up to and including the latest 7-0 reverse he was ’not for turning’. However after the Atalanta performance are we now seeing a new pragmatic side to our manager? – let’s face it he definitely won’t want any more big Euro drubbings on his CV.
He was also wound up and animated prior to and during the semi at Hampden. His determination that the team did not let things slide in the manner of the 2-2 at Celtic Park was clear for all to see as was his repeated insistence that we should have won the previous meeting convincingly. His message certainly got through to the whole squad.
I don’t know what will happen tomorrow night and I won’t jump on the bravado bandwagon, however I am optimistic and looking forward.
One of the things I loved is the togetherness of this squad. Check Engels delight when CCV scored, fantastic
what a perfect performance
KInGLubo
bigrailroadblues re: handsome hun. My quest continues…..
A quest with no end.
Also, morning good sir!
An Tearmann on 4th November 2024 12:25 pm
You are of course right. To acknowledge it would validate it somewhat. There will be enough attention drawn to it by fan media and the DR and Co that we as a club don’t need to stoop that low, no matter how much fun it might be.
I believe that the DR are already running stories about the total trophy count being on the line along with “86 years of bragging rights” looking at the news now feed.
No doubt, if we win, a day or two after they will revise history again and start counting pre-season cups, petrofac cup and lord only knows what else to appease their diminishing readership to skew the figures to suit.
QB
DeniaBhoy on 4th November 2024 1:14 pm
I’ll be just as uncertain for the NY game at Ibrox. Memories of beating them 6-2 and then losing 5-1 under MoN are still fresh in the memory even though, in reality, it is from a bygone era.
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Plenty of well made points. On Martin, I remember his post match interviews in which he stated that even at 6-2 he was still nervous for the outcome. He was also honest when he said just after appointment that Rangers were the benchmark; however I wonder what he really thinks these days now that we know of the cheating and double-dealing that was extant at that time.
I can vouch for the fact that AIpple is not a bot (hangover PSTD).
It could be that the one I met in DC and South Bend was an avatar, however.
The podium irregularities are being investigated by the Trump team, people are telling me 👐
TEXASTIM
Big smiles here! What a summer that was. Hopefully replicated next year as well.
Was anyone else concerned by the amount of possession Aberdeen had?
47%
Aye right.
That must have been during the flares.
Vale Bhoy
It can take a lot of time picking the ball out of the net on six occasions :-)
however I wonder what he really thinks these days now that we know of the cheating and double-dealing that was extant at that time.
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I doubt we’ll ever know. Any Celtic minded pundit bringing up liquidation, improper registration of players, tax evasion etc will soon find themselves out of work.
If SPFL teams were albums:
Celtic – What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye)
Sheep – NTWICM2
R2ngers – Rob & Fab (Milli Vanilli)
The Rest – NTWICM4 to NTWICM12
CanterCSC ;0)
Tim Malone Will Tell on 4th November 2024 2:09 pm
“It can take a lot of time picking the ball out of the net on six occasions :-)”
Though not long enough to need to have even 1 minute of added time for the goals, celebrations or substitutions for that matter… hmmm
QB
Maybe the ref had a 6-0 bet on.
Just looked at the behind the goals video……
LOADS of empty seats in the main stand. Looks like the Aberdeen section.
Crazy….
Weeron.