Two clubs from outside the top five wealthy leagues reached the quarter finals last season but Benfica were drawn against another team from outside the big five, Zenit St Petersburg. Apoel Nicosia eliminated Lyon in the last 16 on penalties (we should be practicing penalties every week between now and then).
Two teams, Basel (who earlier eliminated Manchester United) and Bayer Leverkusen (who eliminated Valencia), lost seven goals in one game in the first knockout round last season. This tournament retains an ability to be harsh and unforgiving at every moment. Leverkusen actually conceded 10 to Barcelona over two games.
Apoel Nicosia conceded eight to Real Madrid in the quarters. The Cypriot team held things together for as long as they could but failed to reach group stage of the Europa League this season, going out at the hands of Neftchi Baku (Azerbaijan).
Our seven potential opponents, all from the top five leagues, will each present an enormously difficult challenge but some are easier than others. Our biggest advantage is our own position. Those seven clubs will each underestimate Celtic, we have by far the lowest coefficient of all teams left in the tournament.
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We are enormously outgunned and inexperienced at this level but we know a few things:
We can defend under incredible pressure.
We can score, home and away, against anyone.
We cannot retain possession. This is not a good thing, but it is an acknowledged weakness, so we know not to plan to retain possession. If in doubt, laces through the ball and get into position.
Our opponents will know we have the tallest team in the competition. Height is an advantage until your opponent learns how you use it. During the first half on Wednesday Celtic tried to repeat the corner kick success we enjoyed against Barcelona and Benfica but Spartak had read the script. We will be unlikely to score the same goal again in Europe. A fresh plan is needed.
The Spartak goal is a real lesson. This is not a goal we would have conceded against a far superior Barcelona. We had a 1-0 lead and our entire left flank was exposed, compromising a winning position. We can leave our left flank exposed at Kilmarnock tomorrow but this kind of laissez-faire defending came within 8 minutes of eliminating us on Wednesday and will do so in the next round if repeated.
Penalty kicks determined the outcome of 50% of Champions League knockout ties last season (20% after games, 30% during games). No amount of practice is too much.
Planning for the quarter finals starts now.
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Faint heart never won fair hand
Without being boorish or them-like
Whomever we get, we get – not one of them teams will relish coming to Celtic Park
Over the moon we’re there ‘At the big table’
Joy
U
Was just thinking again about Broony’s performance on Wednesday ……some mhan ….!!!
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
15:57
Correct. Im glad not everyone has had the wool pulled over their eyes.
Too many folk flingin muck without reading the full facts.
Thanks
YNWA Indeed
HH
the prince of goalkeepers
Awe Naw that means listening to BBC shortbread ;-)
HH
canamalar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vntBg5uWKg
I didn’t like Neil’s comment (at that precise moment) when he included Shareholders for praise after the battering Celtic gave Spartak but that is a man who sees so far ahead it would be very foolish of me to even try to get into such an amazing persons psyche.
Stop fighting and start Loving, you will feel much better for it. Trust me on that, if yucan.
Ten Men
Maybe THE SFA have to run it past media house first
HH
canamalar – Toasting with the tears of benefits claimants
If people like me didn’t pay taxes, you wouldn’t get your Chicago Town Pizza washed down with Diamond White while you watch The X Factor or whatever it is you do for amusement.
A little gratitude would not be amiss on your part.
I’m not saying you have to doff your cap or extend me the right of primae noctis, but at the very least you should respectfully address me as “Lord Philvis, Social and Sartorial Better of humble Canamalar”.
Yours in Christ,
Lord Philvis, Social and Sartorial Better of humble Canamalar
(thumbsup)
philvisreturns
15:52
izzy – What am I, the royal correspondent? (thumbsup)
>The Queen’s cousin Nerissa was 22 and the Queen’s look-alike cousin Katherine was 15 when they were sent to the grim Royal Earlswood Mental Hospital. Both were severely handicapped and virtually unable to speak. They were said to have a mental age of six.
Cousin Nerissa is now deceased but cousin Katherine, aged 86, is still alive as of 2012, although severely mentally retarded. She is neglected and never visited.
Burke’s Peerage which records the “who’s who” lineage of the British aristocracy, recorded false information that the first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II died in 1940 and 1961.
Despite the Queen’s fabulous wealth, she spent not one penny on cousin Nerissa’s burial. Nerissa was buried like a pauper in an unceremounious grave marked by a 6-inch-high plastic tag bearing a serial number and the name ”Bowes-Lyon”.
Cousin Katherine who spent decades in the Royal Earlswood Asylum, was moved to Ketwin House for the mentally disabled. Following allegations that male staff members were washing female patients, Ketwin House was forced to shut down. Witnesses found bruises on Katherine’s hand and hip.
Despite the Queen’s fabulous wealth, she spent not one penny to keep her cousin Katherine at Ketwin House. The cost ? About 770 pounds per patient per year. According to a former staff member, Katherine is alert, understands what she’s being told and communicates by pointing and smiling. Not one member of the Royal family has visited her in 60 years.
It turns out that the Queen’s mother also had cousins who were locked away in the same mental institution on the same day in 1941 as Nerissa and Katherine.
An ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach to family members with “embarrassing” problems like mental illness and epilepcy is nothing new in the royal household.
Petec
This is why
http://www.bundesliga.de/de/liga/tabelle/
14th out of 20 in the form table
And they are about to lose Huntelaar
HH
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
“And they are about to lose Huntelaar”
If we find him do we get to keep him?
Che
Why do I see PL with a white stick and dark glasses ;-)
HH
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
15:57 on 7 December, 2012
ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON…… Like myself, Izzy wants nothing to do with bhuns on here ( and I don’t want to have anything to do with them AT ALL) ….. And he gets slated for not being taken in by a bhun lurker ……. We should ask ourselves if ANY of us would spend hours on ff, and how welcome we would be……!!!!?
izzy – So you’re accusing the Queen of not being a good cousin? (thumbsup)
67Heaven – We should ask ourselves if ANY of us would spend hours on ff, and how welcome we would be
CQN is not a green version of FF. (thumbsup)
Philvis..,
What makes you think you pay more tax than me ?
What makes you think I am a benefits claimant ?
Your mocking of people forced into that position betrays the mighty Victorian expression Miki67 reminded us about yesterday “as cold as charity” behind your Masonic values
izzy
16:17 on 7 December, 2012
Didn’t stop her being Patron of Mencap though.
It’s the egregious hypocrisy they are allowed to get away with.
DeniaBhoy, 15:00 on 7 December, 2012, I agree with what you say and was just adding another dimension element to your initial post.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
;)
Those Dutch people don’t like it when it gets too hot. Celtic Park will be Green Hot and that is hotter than red hot.
As long as we keep out their forwards at home, we will do the business away.
Is Afellay on loan (big +)?
NL’s detractors are many and manic. i’m sue some of them have self-combusted by now and will never be heard from again.
They rack their wee woodentops for ammo to use against him.
Here’s one I haven’t yet come across but which will emerge at some point.
I’d like to hear counter points.
“Tony Watt’s inclusion in the CL squad was down to UEFA rules and had nothing to do with Neil’s tactical or managerial nous.”
Ntassoolla – No problem, I thought you were saying it wasn’t worth the effort. Something which is a widely-held belief, especially amongst those running the England international teams. Then they wonder why they keep getting knocked out in penalty shoot outs.
Those Dutch people are big lumps sop make sure you’re not standing behind one.
philvisreturns 16:25 on 7 December, 2012
“67Heaven – We should ask ourselves if ANY of us would spend hours on ff, and how welcome we would be”
Philvis, I reckon if you stuck to politics and the Royal family, you would do alright on follow follow.
Indeed, such is the harmony of your views and theirs on such subjects, I don’t think it would be long before you would be referred to on there as “Lord Philvis, Social and Sartorial Better of humble Sevcovians”.
Chain a pullin’, chain a pullin’
Coffee and a kitkat chunky. It will get more exciting than this
Ntassoolla
Who was left out by his inclusion?
Lubos Kamenar who hasn’t made one appearance yet?
Petec
He wants to stay after the loan period. Good player no doubts about it He is out to impress
HH
canamalar – What makes you think I am a benefits claimant ?
You’re not?
Your mocking of people forced into that position betrays the mighty Victorian expression Miki67 reminded us about yesterday “as cold as charity” behind your Masonic values
I’m not mocking you, I’m celebrating you. You are a true British icon in the mould of Jim Royle or Rab C Nesbitt.
Somebody has the keep the bum-shaped indentations in the couch warm while Jeremy Kyle is on, then go on the internet to assume moral superiority over the working stiffs who pay for it all.
Might as well be canamalar and those like canamalar. I like ye a loater pal. (thumbsup)
Awe_Naw..,
Did you catch my post at 15:43 ?
ntassoolla
16:33 on
7 December, 2012
Congratulations for the silliest post of the week ….
‘Kate home in time for Xmas’
FFS CSC
The Comfortable Collective – If I was a hun, I’d be the best hun ever. (thumbsup)
Denia I try not to be long winded and sometimes overdo it. Or should that be underdo :)
I always think back to Gareth Southgate when his teammates bottled it. Players can freeze.
Best guy I ever saw was Tommy Gemmel. As a wee boy I asked my dad why keepers always went the wrong way on purpose. He found it quite amusing from a 10 yr old and said he’d never noticed that. I genuinely didn’t know why at that age.
Someone mentioned that those who cannot stomach EU contributing to this site should start one themselves and bar EU. I had the same thought earlier today. I couldn’t agree more. Paul67 has said that the site is open to all who abide by the rules. That is how it should be and EU, whenever he has come on here has done so.
Awful news about that nurse, who was duped into giving out that information. I take it our media have been hounding her. Looks like Levenson’s demand will have to be enshrined in law.
May she rest in peace.
Are we not still in all four competitions?
so why are the CQN cliche fighting with
one & other who care’s.
Just for the record if the fan of another club
want’s to post on here and is civil that’s
all right by me.
neil canamalar lennon hunskelperextrordin aire
15:43 on7 December, 2012
I think your going to be disappointed.
Denial runs deep. You and I both know it
HH
Well done Kris!
But where’s Sammi?!
http://celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3442
HH!!
Philvis..,
I am not a benefits claimant
Neither do I grudge paying my considerable income tax or use a avoidance mechanisms to cheat.
I doubt you can make any such claim.
HELP
How can i stop those annoying pop up adverts at the bottom of my screen??
Noticed my daughter flicking through cqn there.
Thinking my Christmas present is getting ordered:-))