Inter scored a breakaway goal from Guarin, who should have earlier received a red card for deliberately striking Stefan Johansen on the face, on the 88th minute to win this tie 4-3 on aggregate. But despite playing for the majority of the game with 10 men, after Virgil van Dijk’s 36th minute red card, Celtic looked comfortable throughout. Man of the match Nir Bitton dictated play for long periods.
The best actual chance of the game fell to Gary Mackay-Steven on the 7th minute when a cross-field pass from Emilio Izaguirre was misjudged by the Inter defence, allowing Mackay-Steven to control and nip clean through on Carrizo but the keeper spread himself to block.
Stuart Armstrong had a strong penalty claim denied on 14 minutes. As he prepared to shoot, Santon grabbed him by the shoulder but the referee gave the first notice that he would give the home team the benefit of the doubt all night.
Inter took time to get into the game but Icardi almost connected to a blasted cross ball by Santon as the home team made their first chance, on 19 minutes.
Two minutes later Celtic had their second penalty claim on the evening when John Guidetti was held but again the referee was in no mood to award a decision against the home team.
Ultimately the red card may have determined the outcome of this game but if anyone expected Celtic to collapse afterwards, they were mistaken. Inter enjoyed their best spell of the game between van Dijk’s 36th minute red and halftime, but the man advantage was not evident from the flow of play. Craig Gordon made a stunning save from a header, which was ultimately found to be offside, on 38 minutes, and two minutes before the break Gordon saved again at his near post after Jason Denayer blocked an initial shot.
Needing a goal while a man down requires a difficult tactical balance. Celtic decided to keep things tight until later in the second period. Gordon saved twice, from Hernanes and Guarin, before the latter retaliated when Stefan Johansen nutmeged him but hitting the Celtic player with a forearm smash.
Ronny Deila sent Kris Commons on for the final 13 minutes and, with Celtic struggling to test the keeper, the midfielder tried his luck from 35 yards but Carrizo was untroubled.
With Celtic pressing for what would have been a winner, Inter broke with speed. A Guarin shot from 25 yards thundered into the top corner, leaving Gordon with no chance.
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Turkeybhoy
23:05 on 26 February, 2015
Sandman,
Brilliant summation.
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Thanks, but my post at 22.56 appears to have been censored.
Deleted form the blog? A first! I’m not seeing it anymore. Becasue I referred to the excuse for a ref perishing in a yachting accident?
Boo! Free speech! Reinstate the Sandman petition forthcoming…
ernie lynch
And well before the closing minutes.
Baffling.
Ard Macha
bournesouprecipe
I’m hoping my posts would back up what you’ve said. I’ve made my feelings known re pyro, here and elsewhere.
I won’t defend the indefensible and anyone who took a flare into the stadium tonight is an absolute clown.
The debate on “Pyros”.I think every Turkish kid is born holding one.I have been to Galatasaray V Fenerbache game a couple of times.You cant see a thing for smoke from hundreds of flares/smoke bombs.Not a word said.I think Italy is very similar.
Dont even go to the South American games.More smoke there than was at “Waterloo”.
The Greatest Story Never Told.
Don’t believe the hype.
HH.
Evening
Still gutted about tonight but I was still really pleased with the way we handled both games against Inter- we weren’t just a shambles earlier in the season in Europe but last season in our last two games and in Karagandy we were pathetically bad as well. There were spells in both matches v Inter where we played excellent football and looked totally at home on the stage – in a way that we haven’t done since the Champions League group stages of 2012/3.
We didn’t get through tonight though and we have to look at why. The ref was terrible tonight and despite what some arses on Shortbread might say the sending off of Virgil Van Dijk was critical. But we basically went out because we let in three goals on our own park – one was a real goalkeeping howler ( I am less sure the first goal was as bad as everybody else seems to) but at all the goals our defence in the first leg was all over the place. Our midfield is good – and in Bitton I think we have real quality- but none of our forwards totally convinces me. I quite like Guidetti, Griffiths and Anthony Stokes though Scepovic is a big dissy but I don’t think any of them is as good as Hooper was in his first two and a half seasons far less the greats of the earlier part of this century. We are better than we were a year ago- which is good- but I think we have further to go as a team before we are at a level that I can we can reach than maybe I thought a week ago.
I think Ronny D has had a bumpy ride and that even tonight he got a couple of his substitutions wrong. On a more general note I would like to see him being a bit more tactically flexible – playing two up might be an idea worth pursuing for some domestic games- but Plan A looks better than I thought it did even three months ago. We play nice football, wear teams down because we work hard and zip the ball about better than we did under Neil Lennon. Arguably we have our most attractive team since Dr Jo or even Tommy Burns but we look to have a tougher streak than the teams managed by either of those men . But Ronny is not perfect and he is still learning. He’s better than I thought he was though and I am pleased to admit that .
We are going to need to be tough over the next few weeks for obvious reasons. This could be a great season but it could still all go wrong. Medium to long term the picture is still fuzzy. We need to win the league to even make sure we get into those Champions League qualifiers which now seem to start just after Wimbledon finishes. It’s not long and we need to get ours central defensive situation sorted and a better , permanent, forward than we have at present in place as quickly as we can.
As I said earlier today I am a Glass Half Empty person and at the moment I am not confident that we will be as strong come July. But the last Thursdays were thrilling and I am proud of the team.
As for the Flare tonight well what can you say? I have met a few GBers – travelled to Europe with them – and was impressed by their passion for the club, their political beliefs which are similar to mine if somewhat less cynical and they know about football. But they do seem to like the old pyros. I have to say I am not personally that bothered by them (pyros)and in the open air on a dark evening they add to the sense of theatre. But if Celtic have been fined on the Wednesday- even if it was for ‘crowd disturbances’ as opposed to ‘fireworks’ – it seems a really stupid thing to do to light a flare tonight all the same. It will be a great spectacle when we play a big European tie behind closed doors now won’t it lads.
Sorry for rambling on. Pity we never got through against a team that looked beatable to me but tonight and last Thursday I was really proud and thrilled by my team.
Jimbo67
If the referee wasn’t a cheat,why did he not send off Izzy ?
glasgowdave
Help yourself
bournesouprecipe
22:49
Watch it again without green specs on mate, if it had had happened other way around you would have no complaints. He led with the wrong leg, if you’ve ever played football you’ll know what I mean.
Weefra
Love yer wee rants amigo. :))
See you Sunday. Want to introduce you to my 4 year old Grandson Lewis. Taking him to Paradise for the first time. :))
Inter new they had a game tonight, mostly against ten men, it’s murder trying to type with one hand over one eye trying to focus…mind doing that at some games ;))
blantyretim
22:10 on 26 February, 2015
I had other things on this evening and didn’t see the game however at the conclusion of the 90 minutes I got a call from Milan that gave me a brief idea of what had happened on the park and off and I promised myself that I wasn’t going to come on here and comment but sometimes when you read the sycophantic tripe that’s posted,you just have to have a go
I don’t give a flying duck wether it was Ciaran the 2nd year law student from Glasgow Uni or wee shug fae the Calton that thought it was quite smart to wave a flare as a gesture of “Get it right up ye Uefa we dae whit we want” Because Ciaran or wee Shug probably doesn’t give a toss wether he gets banned from Celtic Park or not because the likliehood is that he hardly ever sets foot in the stadium but will travel all over Europe following the team just for the craic
For you to equate that a bunch of huns singing and calling you names is more dangerous than a drunken eejit standing behind you waving a flare that’s capable of inflicting 3rd degree burns if handled incorrectly beggars belief.
Just google images a of third degree burns and come back and tell me that a hun calling you names would injure you more
I know what I could live with
Just a
TOSB
Agree with you on Virgil’s first yellow in answer to Eddie.
However, the Feyenoord forward’s tackle you mentioned earlier was late, high, studs showing, and could have seriously injured his opponent.
Fitted all the criteria for a red.
And I don’t blame Virgil totally for getting a stupid second yellow.
After all, he had just seen how a defender on the wrong side was allowed by the ref to nudge and knock over his opponent as he tried to challenge him without any foul being awarded, far less a yellow card being produced. In the penalty box. Denying a goal-scoring opportunity.
100% cheat.
stebhoy
21:44 on
26 February, 2015
if someone hit you with coin
*him and the wee Inverclyde soup taker caused that….we were never going to be allowed to win that day……I blame it on us no giving him a job.
and then got you fired & shamed rom your comfy job
*we never caused that it was the Catholic Church that went after him….and with good reason tae.
– would you hate them forever and take great pleasure in hurting/tarnishing them at every possibility? of course you would!
*so he hates Catholics then…that makes him a bigot.
Any of the secret blog moderators want to break cover and explain why my 22.56 post, summary of the performance, was deleted?
First UEFA decision that refers to Scottish football this week was fine Celtic for one flare.
Second decision will be everything that Feyenoord hooligans brought on the pitch tonight will be given for an auction and funds will be transferred to save Rangers.
Back page of the Scotsman,I think.
(https://twitter.com/Napoleon_Celtic/status/571085118552580096?s=02)
Turkeybhoy
More smoke there than there was at Waterloo
They have electric trains running in the UK now, no more smoke. :-)
bournesouprecipe,
I think Ronny thought Guidetti could give us a presence up front, and that GMS might have been a luxury. I don’t think he was ever taking off Johansen, so to me it was either GMS or Armstrong.
I think the latter has a bit more physicality and may of been more useful defending set-pieces.
All in my humble opinion of course.
Ard Macha
Right fholks. I’m off to bed. Sorely disappointed that we did not qualify and ohce again angered by the performance of a referee in a game versus Italian opposition. However, I am very proud of how our Celtic players played for the jersey. They are progressing and will bring supporters back to Celtic Park to cheer them on. Well done to all of them and to Ronny and his management team for making us proud of them again.
bournesouprecipe
23:18
GMS was taken off as Ronny doesn’t know if he can lead the line. Think back to beginning of season when Ronny was changing personel every game to see what they could do.
It still amazes me that guys who go to games don’t get what Ronny is doing.
If GMS was played at CF tonight and bombed you would be having a field day.
HT
‘One clown Celtic man’ – will merit greater coverage than the 25,000 lesser mortals in a and their wee bit of banter.
We are playing under UEFA who hammered the Billy Boys before they died.
Any chance, once the choir starts its repertoire at Brockville tomorrow night, that the ref will take the players off and suspend the match, as happened in Rotterdam, if there is (if?) sectarian and/or racist chanting?
eddieinkirkmichael
23:21 on
26 February, 2015
bournesouprecipe
22:49
Watch it again without green specs on mate, if it had had happened other way around you would have no complaints. He led with the wrong leg, if you’ve ever played football you’ll know what I mean.
Still dont agree with you Eddie.I thought it was a fantastic challenge.Look at the direction the ball went.Still thats opinions.
zbyszek
It’s just come through I’ll reply tomorrow mate.
Thomthethim
I agree mate I’m just pointing out, not just to you, that because a flare/smoke is set off it doesn’t mean it was done by the GB.
I don’t like them and never have done.
thebhoyfromoz
23:25 on
26 February, 2015
Back page of the Scotsman,I think.
(https://twitter.com/Napoleon_Celtic/status/571085118552580096?s=02)
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The name of the journo who asked Ronny about this at the presser is no longer a mystery, it seems.
Stephen Halliday ……you are destined for promotion within SMSM.
eddieinkirkmichael
23:27 on
26 February, 2015
bournesouprecipe
23:18
GMS was taken off as Ronny doesn’t know if he can lead the line. Think back to beginning of season when Ronny was changing personel every game to see what they could do.
It still amazes me that guys who go to games don’t get what Ronny is doing.
If GMS was played at CF tonight and bombed you would be having a field day.
I totally agree with that post.See.
Oh by the way, what did I say the back page headlines would be tomorrow?
eddieinkirkmichael
You said ‘VVD went through the player……. he didn’t – even Gary McAllister thought the booking was ‘ soft ‘
JEZZO….we lost to Inter Milan…so what….
on to the Treble….#DeilaConvert….
ernie lynch
23:13 on 26 February, 2015
When was the last time a keeper was booked for time wasting in a game his team had to win and the score was 0-0?
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I haven’t checked, but I would imagine it was a Celtic keeper during the Tony Mowbray season.
If it wasn’t, then the SFA missed a trick
sandman
There aren’t any – only Paul. Don’t he would have deleted that unless offensive language etc – maybe a computer error at your end?
Zbyszek
Glad to see you post my Polska brother. I may need your help soon, to meet my relatives in Gdansk. :)
20000 sing and chant in a bigoted and racist fashion is termed a small minority.
1 holds up a flare ……. sod it, you know the point I am making.
Bourne
I know and it must stop. As I said I’ve made my feelings known but if you get the odd rocket wishing to set off a namesake it’s difficult to put a stop to it.
Delaneys Dunky
I’ll be in Glasgow next week.
Turkeybhoy
23:29
He did get the ball but he went through the player to get it. That’s a foul in the modern game mate.
winning captains
Evening mate.
I’m off to sleep now but I thought yesterday’s article was a disgrace (I’m not convinced Paul wrote it) and it was something I’d expect to read in the Sun, if I read it.
Just saying D.
Night all and God Bless.