What a game of football! It takes two teams to entertain as thoroughly, so credit to the losers. RB Leipzig worked their way into the game, took an early lead and threatened to put the match out of sight through corner kicks alone. But so much more credit to the winners.
Celtic were magnificent. We have seen one or two more impressive results this century, but the general consensus walking out of Celtic Park last night, was that perhaps only the 2-0 win over Lyon in 2003 was as impressive a performance. Perhaps.
Celtic opened well and found angles to move the ball around the Leipzig defence from the off. The visitors tried to pass through the high Celtic block but our setup was different than it was in Dortmund on matchday two.
Lopsided
Out of possession, Daizen Maeda drifted infield, often leaving Leipzig’s €18m summer signing, Geertruida in 20 yards of space. It looked dangerous, but as the game progressed it was clear that Leipzig prefer to build down their left. Daizen playing infield stifled their ability to progress the ball and he was able to make up the ground whenever Leipzig switched play.
This enabled Celtic to press 25 yards from the Leipzig goal without the vulnerabilities we saw earlier in the campaign.
Leipzig opened the scoring after a short period of possession, gained when Auston Trusty misplaced a pass. The 10 minutes which followed their opener was littered by similar mistakes throughout the midfield and defence. Celtic were rattled and at this stage, could have seen the game slip from them.
Arne Engels played a ‘round the corner’ pass to Nicolas Kuhn, who drifted past two defenders and set for a shot from outside the box. Too far out, surely?
Yesterday, a friend noted that goals change games and if two years ago against Real Madrid, Callum McGregor’s strike against the post had gone in, we may have earned a result.
Kuhn’s swerving shot struck that same post on 35 minutes, but this time, the ball fell into the net. Celtic were level and Leipzig had a game on their hands.
Reo Hatate was magnificent throughout but on two occasions he played forward passes which deserved a scoring outcome. With the game level he threaded a ball right through the middle of the Leipzig formation for Daizen Maeda to run onto. Daizen shot first time from 25 yards before the keeper was set, but failed to find the target. Later in the game, Reo’s raking 60 yard pass with the outside of his foot, swerved around the Leipzig defence before finding Kyogo. Goodness, what a pass.
In an echo of football in a former era, Kyogo dribbled past two defenders to make space for a shot inside the box, but a third managed to get a block to turn it behind. As halftime approached, Celtic continued to press and a great passing move saw Alistair Johnston free in the box; his left foot shot was saved.
The Celtic press was in full fight now. With seconds remaining before the break, five Celtic players cornered Leipzig on the right side of their box. Kyogo was knocked to the ground but the pivotal moment of the game had arrived. Reo Hatate hit the byline, looked up and saw Greg Taylor point to space along the line.
Taylor collected and smashed a low cross into the six-yard box, where Daizen Maeda replicated his fresh air shot, so successful in a recent League Cup Final. The ever-alert Kuhn beat everyone to the loose ball to put Celtic ahead.
Celtic could have extended their lead several times before Reo Hatate got the goal his play deserved on 72 minutes. Kuhn rolled a no-look pass into space for Johnston to fire another low cross into the box. All Gulacsi in the Leipzig goal could do was halt its progress for Reo to pounce and fire high into the net.
Brendan Rodgers managed the final quarter of the game through assiduous use of substitutions. Valle and Bernardo for Taylor and Engels, then Scales and Yang for Carter-Vickers and Kuhn, finally Idah for Kyogo. Every change reenergised Celtic. There was no weakness, no dropping off. It was the perfect performance.
The evidence is substantial, this is the best Celtic team since at least 2012.
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Thanks for the replies regarding the ballad/poem lads. Much appreciated. 👍
Interesting to digest the demography of those who voted for Donald Trump.
Bruges Villa 0-0 HT , not a great watch Bruges nicer footballers created more chances , Villa a bunch of big lads , not a great watch. Villa centre halves look a pair of torn faced big stiffies. Suspect Bruges may run out of puff and Villa are probably capable of 1 decent move per game and will Nick it.
HH
TT @5:24pm
So the UK folk who are fed up with unelected EU bankers steering the UK interests away from what UK folk need in their lives so the folk vote for Brexit but that makes them bad?
Only a “No Deal” Brexit will suffice. In 2014 the SNP tried to pull a No Deal with EU and UK together at the same time in the indy referendumb Shhhhhhh and SNP have claimed to be the victims coz they lost – but what about the disaster that these sleekits would have dumped on millions of innocent people coz of SNP lying filth?
Why has pretentious Bernard Ponsonby not mentioned this which is his job?
The 2014 once in a lifetime defeat which the losers have not been big enough or gracious enough to accept since – to accept that timely 2014 defeat, nor have they accepted the 2016 Brexit victory for the British 99% of working people although only 52% of them voted for it.
And most Tims want to be governed by these degenerate pro Witches – anti Catholic, Celtic, Irish, Worker, Poor, Disabled, Gypsy, etc, SNP are the evil lying scum of the earth?
The Tims even shed tears for a recently deceased vulgar and hideious and so foul and horrible vaxxeen shill probably visited by the karma boomerang after she/he/whatever it was, probably killed hundreds of innocent people who were stupid and vile enough to listen to her/his/whatever it was, boak inducing filthy hunlike mouth.
What goes through these ‘Tim’ heads to think of someone who calls the then President of the US Mr Donald Trump, vulgar names because he’s anti the murder of the unborn which makes him a right good bloke in my eyes.
One of the millions of reasons Brexit came about was the never ending needless immigration paid for by zio traffikers who are pro Kalergi plan ie: the replacement of White Christian Europeans in effect a silent genocide – and a dumbed down European population which you – TT – are the prime example of – dancing in the streets like clapping circus monkeys because the zio vermin filled media tell you to do it.
Ireland suck the EU gravy train and if you protest about being replaced by Ukranians and Africans then RTE and other bs zio shilling media formats will smear protesters as “Far Right” well if being the opposite of “Woke Degeneracy” means you are “FR” then that is a good thing.
Brexit is the great opportunity for the working class. But, Brexit in zio banker neo liberal planted politicians controlled hands will be a disaster.
The Brexit vote put a spoke in the wheels of the New World Order – so the NWO pulled the fake plandemic scam on the day that Brexit was due to begin. So Brexit hasn’t had the wrapper taken off of it – yet. [ C’mon The Workers Party! ]
Who would want to be part of an EU that has blown Palestine to smithereens for 70+ years under orders from the unelected zio bankers who run the Woke and degenerate EU?
Maybe somebody who dizny know their history as well as they would like everybody to believe?
Just look at how they treated pro Palestine Celtic fans in Germany recently.
Kamilla Krankie locked up half of African Americans behind bars for a new unannounced slave trade she was taught well by the Clinton, Obama, and Biden crime families.
Wee Timmy dizny know this coz the BBC, CNN, NBC, and other scum filled outlets haven’t reported any of this evil – neither has the great historian Tontine Tim.
PS, Well done to Brendan for at last after 8 long in and out of the club years, to finally get over himself and accept that the stupifying mugged by everybody “Celtic Way” should be left were it belongs – in the Great Stein era as without Mr Stein and his players this type of football can’t work.
It does say something though that Brendan’s team are diminished when a [ parked bus ] is put in front of them – Ross County were the last team to do that obviously learning from Dortmund’s “Putting on the agony” night vs us.
Good to see Manchester United bringing in a Josè Mourinho type of manager – who showed what he can do for Sporting Lisbon vs Manchester City. Good.
Young Boys down 2-1 at Shakhtar
GF
You need to upgrade your chatgpt your current version is broken
gerry ferns
wrong forum, wrong club, wrong un
Bernard Ponsonby has retired.
next celtic chairman for me.
Kilmarnock shelve plans to lift the plastic pitch next season
Villa centre half picks the ball up after it was tapped to him by the keeper, what was he thinking ! Bruges convert pen
Predictionsfordummiescfc
mncelt
said just like trump himself….
she didnt need to identify as a woman of colour, she is one
TT
as Frankie Boyle said …
“People who voted for Brexit aren’t stupid. They’re just people who want to put an end to immigration from Europe because they don’t like Pakistanis.”
Glasgow’s Subway will remain open for fans of Rangers and Hearts following Sunday evening’s Scottish Premiership fixture at Ibrox, where the sides will kick-off at 17:00 GMT. (The Herald)
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och that is nice of them. does the clockwork orange go to gorgie now.
!!BADA BING!! on 6TH NOVEMBER 2024 6:57 PM
Kilmarnock shelve plans to lift the plastic pitch next season
I thought they didn’t have a choice ? I thought that grass pitches were mandatory for Premier league clubs ?
Not good tonight with Brugge winning v Villa. Really wanted Brugge to lose and virtually be out prior to visiting us. Also wanted Villa to be already a top 8 before we go there.
BURNLEY78 on
On tonight’s showing Villa are hopeless , strong but no skill.
The SPFL gave Kilmarnock a two year grace and they planned to do it next year, that’s been moved to 2026. Not surprising as their last accounts posted a £1.2m loss.
Probably can’t afford to do it in 2025, remember they are one of the clubs which have restricted our attendance and the huns to one stand.
One word…..madness !
B78
Love to see that Martinez losing – but agree with you that a villa win would be best
Not a clue
It is about Feargal O’Hanlon, a young volunteer who was killed at Brookbrough with Sean South in the border campaign of the late 1950s.
Written by Dominic Behan, who accused Bob Dylan of plagiarism of his ballad in the song “With God on Our Side.”.
I see villa has had 1 shot on target so far
Brugge look a different class to Villa tonight. Our game in 3 weeks time will be a real challenge.
They are a pot 2 team for a reason.
Maybe villa is playing like a pot 4 team tonight
EKbhoy
Agree Villa look rotten.
Juventus Leipzig Monaco and us could all beat them actually.
Young boys will almost certainly be out before they come to CP. 0 points from 4 games.
Young boys play Stuttgart and Atalanta before they play is so could easily have 0 points from 6 and 1 month off prior to playing us for Swiss winter shutdown.
Good win for Bruges , hard working with a decent level of skill.
Villa felt like a bunch of guys on £160k per week going through the motions… big physical , poor footballing side.
HH
Brugge have Us then Juventus Sporting and Man City. With 6 points in the board they will fancy us as the game they can win to qualify.
That was the best game of europe I’ve ever watched (on the telly) us play
Last night was just like old times. Times like Lisbon, Red Star Belgrade, Leeds at Hampden. And times like Blackburn and Liverpool too.
One or two things struck me about the Leipzig game: they scored during a period of Celtic dominance but then went on to control the game for the next 15 minutes or so. That came to a full stop with Kuhn’s goal. It wasn’t just the goal, it was its sheer brilliance which deflated the Bundesliga players.
The Leipzig players were still suffering from a misplaced sense of superiority when they tried to pass their way out of a tricky situation just right of their goal. Maeda’s persistence put a stop to that and shattered their self-belief.
Personally, I was pleasantly surprised when the German team appeared to give up the ghost in the last 15 minutes. So un-German.
And Kaspar was magnificent when called upon.
Alan Morrison eviscerates the huns here – only just liquidated – wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chj0tPSuMro
spikeysauldman on @7:02pm
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Frankie Boyle trashed and smeared Jeremy Corbyn in 2 successive UK General Elections as he carried out his BBC shill duties.
Frankie Boyle is the other cheek of the Bernard Ponsonby arse.
Boyle and Ponsonby are Establishment shills – if they weren’t they wouldn’t be on establishment media.
Bruges have scored 3 goals in 4 games and lost 6 , we are at home, we should be going for 3 points
Hopefully last 2 games in CL are a template for us to play against these teams
Like Tavpen he will say it….
As a different moniker and gobbleteer Jeremy ‘was to commie’ Corbyn.
Working class unity or rabid envy that his grifter hero got papped.latter eh
Free Palestine
https://x.com/Celtic_FR/status/1854253802591068397?s=19
HH
The experience in Dortmund was instrumental in our Atalanta display.
The experience in the 2-2 Aberdeen game was used to win 6-0 at Hampden.
The Atalanta experience was used to give us victory against Leipzig.
We are learning and implementing that knowledge quickly. Management and players are working together with belief in each other – it is plain to see – it is beautiful and a joy to behold. It has been a long road but maybe we’ve turned the corner.
Brendan has never let us down no matter what some say. He’s made us a winning machine domestically and the signs are there that our European reputation can be restored. HH
I had a Mr Miyagi moment just then when I tuned in to watch Inter- Arsenal and heard McCoist’s voice: switch on, switch off.
DARWIN
how many monikers do you have?
You are the only one questioning Brendan
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