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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The referee showed his intentions in the first ten minutes when he penalised Armstrong and Denayer. Armstrong won the ball fairly and would have had a clear run at the Inter defence, Denayer didn’t touch Palacio but the Inter cheat collapsed dramaticaly,as he did later for VvD’s first yellow card.
Is it only referees from the smaller nations who favour the ‘big’ teams? The Hungarian ref in the first leg was excellent, but would he have been as good at the San Siro?
M6bhoy
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Best posts on here today.
Fully agree with all your points.
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We will miss Denayer and VVD when they leave in the summer. As for Guidette. …..I don’t think he’s our answer for the no.9 position. So, a big challenge again to reach the CL groups.
Given the financial resources that will be available, we can’t afford any more mistakes a la Scepovic, Balde, Pukki, Boerigter, berget, Wakaso, etc, etc.
As a matter of interest how many bookings did we receive last night? Inter got one i believe. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Some guys blaming VVD,would an Inter player have been given 2 yellows for same tackles? No.The guy who scored should have been red carded.
You may have missed this in the magazine at the time. Well, it’s been updated and is well worth a read.
Dirty Brown Brogues and how the roof might fall in on Sevco…
http://www.cqnmagazine.com/dirty-brown-brogues/
Pfayr
Those games agains Ajax were first after winter the break for Legia. In addition Legia lost two key players (Radovic and Duda) just before the competition. You would not believe how many times one team players can miss from few yards. Ajax scored from every chance that they created. If not the circumstances, I think Legia are the better than Ajax now.
winning captains
08:52 on 27 February, 2015
‘Just about all the newspapers have reported substantial circulation losses in the latest ABC figures – with one notable exception.
Sunday Herald has reversed the trend with an astonishing 34.7% increase, helped by a sell out edition on 25th January!’
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It’s heartening to see that their editorial integrity was not corrupted by taking your money for the advert.
They’ve managed to maintain that Sevco are the same club and that the old firm continues as before.
Disagree fundamentally with posters who say that we get too worked up by our treatment in the press.
Why do some of our support still purchase and listen to media who have an agenda against us. They, through their purchase, are actively assisting in their primary objective to undermine our club. Don’t buy and don’t listen. Eventually ,as Winning Capt reported this morning, they will get the message in terms of circulation figures and attendant advertising revenues.
The Club need to deny those same “outlets” access, interviews and damage them in any way we can until a modicum of objectivity returns to their copy.
We are not asking for sugar coated treatment of our club just fairness.
Dear God, when you look at how they have treated the basket case on the south side. The contrast is startling.
HH
With the current squad we are looking strong enough to qualify for CL next season. However with the definite departure of Denayer and Guidetti, and the probable departure of Guidetti, we will need 2 x center halfs and a striker in before we kick off.
Midfield looking very strong.
So, according to this mornings Herald, Sevco supporters are apparently “lobbying the First Minister” in order to have the term “hun” outlawed on the grounds that, in their view, it is “a term of religious hatred, a derogatory and sectarian term for a Protestant”.
There’s not much in the way of self-awareness down Ibrox way is there. The supporters of pretty much every team in Scotland refer to Rangers as “The Huns”. I suppose Partick Thistle, Aberdeen and Dunfermline are hotbeds of anti-protestant bigotry?
There’s an important difference between what is offensive at law – hostility towards protected human characteristics – and what gives rise to personal offence, something that the OBAFTC Act fails on in the opinion of the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
There’s also an important distinction between taking personal offence at something because it challenges one’s attitudes, and taking offence at something because one simply doesn’t like it.
For example, taking offence at a celebration of Another’s culture indicates an intolerance on the part of the offended, and is invalid at Law, an entirely different matter to taking offence at being referred to in unpleasant terms, which simply indicates a personal sensitivity.
Shall we Outlaw the term “Orc”? “Neanderthal”? “Zombie”? simply on the grounds that some people might be personally offended by being so associated?
What next? “Fatso”?
With due apologies to any Fatsos reading.
While I neither buy the DR nor listen to Clyde, I can’t understand why Celtic give them the time of day. There certainly isn’t anything positive in it for us, as far as I can see. Show them the door, Celtic, and never let them darken it again. Maybe then, they will try and act proper media, although I doubt that very much.
Morning Timland from a cold hun free mountain valley.
Still a tad miffed about last night, but will get over it as ever.
I see many are saying that a flare will tarnish our reputation, dearie me, the only peepil that will be offended are the peepil who hate us with a passion anyways.
I agree that setting them off is out of order, and it should stop, but to say our reputation is tarnished is bollox.
HH
I have bought the Sunday Herald once recently. THAT Sunday. I have no intention whatever of purchasing it again, given its usual output (and I don’t mean its stance on Independence).
Gearoid – handsome?
Could have swore I met u in Belfast
Obviously that was another Gearoid1998…
B-)
(Only jokin ye wee babe)
gearoid1998
09:31 on 27 February, 2015
‘Eventually ,as Winning Capt reported this morning, they will get the message in terms of circulation figures and attendant advertising revenues.’
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Nats buy the sunday herald because it supports the nats. It’s like an article of faith for them.
Some additional Celtic fans bought the paper on one occasion because a paid advert appeared in that edition.
The editorial line of the paper continues to flatly contradict the content of the paid advert.
Make of that what you will.
Parkheadcumsalford@9.34
BHOYLO83
Hope you’ve got yer good trainers on,bud. Gearoid’s gonna get ye!
How you keeping,ya young whippersnapper?
ernie lynch
Yes understand that.
It is a paper that found its raison d’être in becoming pro-indepence last year. That was a business decision.
There are job losses happening there – survival is what it is all about.
They were in a minority of one by being pro-independence. It gave them an edge, a real point of difference.
We have given them another opportunity which they have not pursued. The stats don’t lie. Pro independence worked for them and so would standing up to the myth. Doubt they will be brave enough but then again they did take that ad – and probably spent more on lawyers looking at it than they got from us lot!
Some credit due I think.
On the content – legals on both side of border looked at our text and specifically about them being legally a new entity – and found no fault in what we stated.
As the Sunday Herald have had this confirmed by lawyers before publication and as they have had great circulation success, imagine the stories they could carry exposing the entire fiasco at Ibrox and at SFA etc?
Sorry premature post button
My rant about the myopic press was a result of a discussion at breakfast this a.m.
One of the ghuys was saying his father in law still buys the record because he has no access to the Internet and thus he gets his Celtic news from the DR.
Why? The Record never prints anything positive about Celtic. They pander to the Hun demographic and Celtic supporters financially assist them in doing so.
Marrakesh Express
09:04 on
27 February, 2015
m6bhoy
Your post seems to suggest that Champions League teams, or teams capable of competing in it, have to be of a certain level. For me thats not what its about. Celtic right now are CL level group 4, along with another 20 or so clubs which include Salzburg and Legia. Pot 3 level will be the likes of Inter and Fiorentina. The top level ‘closed shop’ never changes, Barca Chelsea etc. To imply that Celtic are not good enough for the CL is wrong.
If I read you correctly, by your reckoning the CL should therefore consist of the best 24 teams in Europe. In that case we’ll have 5 Spanish, 5 English, 4 German, the rest French Italian and Russian, whatever, and that’ll be the death of the richest tournament in football.
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We’ve been papped out of Europe three times this season so how can we claim to be a CL ready team even at Pot 4 level? Leaving aside the gimmes against the Icelandic mob, we’ve only won two matches in Europe this season? If you take a look at the teams who have qualified for the last 16 of the EL, you will find that most if not all of of them have more of a claim to be Cl pot 4 level team than us. A fair few of the teams who didn’t make it through (Spurs, Liverpool, Legia, Salsburg, etc) probably have a better claim to be CL pot 4 level teams than us. Yes of-course levels change from season to season but based on our form this season we are not a CL pot 4 level team.
The Battered Bunnet
09:32 on 27 February, 2015
So, according to this mornings Herald, Sevco supporters are apparently “lobbying the First Minister” in order to have the term “hun” outlawed on the grounds that, in their view, it is “a term of religious hatred, a derogatory and sectarian term for a Protestant”.
There’s not much in the way of self-awareness down Ibrox way is there. The supporters of pretty much every team in Scotland refer to Rangers as “The Huns”. I suppose Partick Thistle, Aberdeen and Dunfermline are hotbeds of anti-protestant bigotry?
There’s an important difference between what is offensive at law – hostility towards protected human characteristics – and what gives rise to personal offence, something that the OBAFTC Act fails on in the opinion of the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
There’s also an important distinction between taking personal offence at something because it challenges one’s attitudes, and taking offence at something because one simply doesn’t like it.
For example, taking offence at a celebration of Another’s culture indicates an intolerance on the part of the offended, and is invalid at Law, an entirely different matter to taking offence at being referred to in unpleasant terms, which simply indicates a personal sensitivity.
Shall we Outlaw the term “Orc”? “Neanderthal”? “Zombie”? simply on the grounds that some people might be personally offended by being so associated?
What next? “Fatso”?
With due apologies to any Fatsos reading.
Maybe if they had paid their taxes they night have been taken more seriously
Ernie Lynch – I buy the Sunday Herald cos it’s the best paper in Scotland and has some talented journalists working for it. I’m sure many others do so for the same reason. I don’t agree with everything in it but don’t feel I have to. I laugh at the fact your mind sees no grey areas in life, only black and white.
BMCUW
I’m great, really great bhud thanks for askin.
How ur good self and the oul fella?
This is no word of a lie…. it took me until THURSDAY to fully recover from the Hoot
Cant party like the pensioners
:-P
Bhoylo
Keep up that abuse and I’ll tell your ma to stop feeding you your Farleys rusks with a catapult.
Ernie
See what you are saying but at least they …printed the Ad even with payment. All papers should have reported the content of the Ad as newsworthy in itself but they didn’t. I give them some credit for printing.
HH
Gutted at the result last night…honest mistakes again.
That ref was atrocious….talk about a biased ref, that was a joke.
Thought we were fantastic overall….but
Commons should have been on sooner
GMS should not have been subbed
Izzy….looks weak and messes about too much…
James Forrest…..too much too young…..before he has even learned to play the game properly
Gutted really…..we deserved to win, we were the best team.
Somebody should have a close look at these refs……ridiculous they can get away with it.
HH
Have to say that Virgil was at best naïve last night for his second booking, at worst stupid, the first “foul” wasn’t even a free kick so he should have known better.
Guidetti is overrated for me, lacks pace at European level, neither Guidetti or Van Djik or Denayer will be here next year anyway as it looks so some nifty work in the transfer market needed in the summer.
Well pleased with the effort of the bhoys, maybe we should have kept GMS on until half time and moved Bitton back as he looked dangerous on the ball but Bitton had another great game. Second rate midfield player on BT Sports disagreed, idiot!
Looking forward to Sunday and stuffing the sheep.
The Battered Bunnet
09:32 on 27 February, 2015
‘So, according to this mornings Herald, Sevco supporters are apparently “lobbying the First Minister” in order to have the term “hun” outlawed on the grounds that, in their view, it is “a term of religious hatred, a derogatory and sectarian term for a Protestant”.’
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And no doubt they’ll be supported in their efforts by nil by mouth, who have opined that not only is the term hun sectarian, but that tim is too.
The ‘logic’ of their argument appears to be that as their football club was regarded as being a Protestant club then any term applied to their fans would be regarded as applying to Protestants in general.
It’s a ludicrous argument but it appears to have been the one used by the fiscal, and apparently accepted by the Sheriff, in the Michael Devlin case.
Ernie i am sure there is not a media outlet in the country that does’t print ads that contradict their editorial policy,it’s all business to them. Sunday Herald is no different. H H Hebcelt
I wont be too bothered if Guidetti isn’t here….not a great player imo.
But,,,,we will miss VVD and JD.
So….I hope the board are taking the proper steps to address this.
Ha
HH
Gearoid
Sorry but I do find it strange we have people coming on here expressing outrage at what some twit ( nearly used a ruder word there) says on SSB or in the Rectum.Is it news to anybody that Keevins, Jackson and Big Fat Derek are stupid, sh*t stirring twits?
You have suggested the most sensible option when you say we should not buy or listen to these people. Their other content isnt exactly Pulitzer Prize class is it? I have suggested what the club should do.
The Record and Clyde increasingly resemble the old ITV soap Crossroads in the eighties. Dwindling but still substantial audience, sensationalist low calibre stories. And when somebody pulls the plug on them nobody will miss them
Jimbo67
Best term for them is ‘fly’s’
As in different sh1t same…..
Did nil by mouth come out and condemn the huns songbook at the league cup semi-final?
Chavez
09:55 on 27 February, 2015
‘Ernie Lynch – I buy the Sunday Herald cos it’s the best paper in Scotland and has some talented journalists working for it. I’m sure many others do so for the same reason. I don’t agree with everything in it but don’t feel I have to. I laugh at the fact your mind sees no grey areas in life, only black and white.’
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I suspect you’re too young to have any experience of proper quality print journalism.
It’s the only explanation I can think of for anyone to be impressed by the quality of the paper.
Gearoid
hahahahaha
HH
I’ve never considered Rangers fans ‘Protestant’
Almost all of the Protestants I have known have been great people. In fact, I married a fine upstanding Protestant woman.
Rangers fans are in general, but not all…….Huns.
I feel that watching John Guidetti is like watching Scott MacDonald without the goals
He’s probably a good enough for the 1st team pool this season but not worth a contract on any wages. He’s not half the player that Johnny Russell is and Johnny isn’t a guaranteed starter at Derby.
Our signing and scouting policy showed signs of improvement in January – let’s continue with that theme, stop signing projects.
Nothing against JG – just don’t think he’s the answer
ernie lynch
Ernie,…What about the crossword in the Herald, surely its one of the best in Scotland:)
HH
hebcelt
09:15 on
27 February, 2015
As a matter of interest how many bookings did we receive last night? Inter got one i believe. Hail Hail Hebcelt
celtic 5 yellow + 2 for vvd =red
inter 2yellow