Celtic have a strategic problem. The great Neil Lennon European campaign of 2019 is slipping from our coefficient status, and we have done little of note since. Neil’s team are the only Celtic side to win a European group, finishing above Lazio, Rennes and Cluj. Four wins, a draw and defeat in a dead rubber in Romania required some breathtaking performances.
If we are to continue at the Continent’s top table, we need to get back to winning games in Europe. This is remarkably difficult in the Champions League, although Neil and Gordon Strachan had a formula. Thier teams defended, played to their strengths and gave us some of the most memorable Celtic games in the last 50 years.
Brendan Rodgers and Ange Postecoglou changed all that. Pragmatism was sacrificed for purity as record heavy defeats arrived in droves. It remains to be seen what learning has been achieved.
The threats and opportunities within this afternoon’s pots are not evenly distributed. We could get Manchester City or Feyenoord from Pot 1, Inter or Porto from Pot 2, Milan or Red Star from Pot 3. There are five current or previous European Champions in Pots 1 and 2, three in Pot 3 and we are the only one in Pot 4. Liverpool, Juventus and Ajax didn’t make the cut.
If it’s Feyenoord and Porto, fair enough, let’s see what we can do, but for me, the draw is all about Pot 3. That is where we are most likely to find a team with comparable resources and challenges, and therefore collect some points.
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Scullybhoy
Stop it. 😂😂😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks4nng22Jw4
DRAW LIVE
Lisa Simpson playing before the draw 🤪
Ffs at this rate we’ll find out our group at midnight.🤪
She’s fingering that horn like a pro
Oh I say…
What group of death do we get ?
Who is this p1sh aimed at? EVERYONE just wants to see the draw.
Get on with it FFS
I was an altar boy 1963-65 at St Luke’s, Motherwell when mass was in Latin. Served under the late Father Thomas Winning who became Cardinal Winning and Archbishop of Glasgow.
Some man big Tam.
Who was the wee cockney wanker before the draw there?
Joe Cole
Can’t believe reading a few of the blogs that they are saying” Maybe Ibrox too soon for Phillips and the Portuguese boy” The alternative being Scales,Turnbull !!.
Maybe they think these guys have not been in full training for months,ready to play at the drop of a hat.Maybe sitting with Big Jimmy,watching the racing.Get hem in.
BRRB
I am still going strong, thanks. Probably getting some more chemo soon as PSA score has started to rise.
Feyenoord, Porto and Copenhagen would do me 👌
Novenas being said by my good self
Need a pished Rod Stewart to get this moving
25 mins of P1sh..at last here we go
Feyenoord, Man U and Copenhagen please.
RON BACARDI
Best wishes 👍
A sad comment on modern football that supporters of a truly big club such as Celtic await the draw with at least as much trepidaton as excitement.
My first fondness for wine was when I was an alterboy.
El dorado, Four Crown , Lanliq, 365 ( Luckly Numbers ) et al followed suit.
Have I got a claim ????????😀
E!
Hot smoked – what a change – I’m only now getting my head around how little money we get compared to others ( and I subscribed to setanta ffs) – big club, f all money
Would take group B now
BHEAVER
I am thinking the same.
“JACKIEMAC on 31ST AUGUST 2023 5:36 PM
….how little money we get compared to others ( and I subscribed to setanta ffs) – big club, f all money”
In a nutshell.
With Ajeti away we might get in another striker.
Good players in past couple of days
Beefing up the spine of the team
Haska going might see Berni kick on, bad influence? Or Berni just a dafty as well?
KLV
Moving to D…
Nearly there.
We will see
D
D or A, others a disaster
D GONE
F death!
What a group f is
B
MAsonic draw, leaving Celtic till last..huns everywhere
Its Barca again isnt it