The sight of Mikael Lustig checking in at Glasgow Airport this morning was welcome, but we should be pragmatic, six days is little time for a hamstring to remedy itself from what was clearly a concerning injury on Wednesday. Mikael should go through some stringent tests tomorrow morning but if there is any doubt of his fitness, he should not be risked.
Football is a 13 or 14 man game. Ronny will want to make two, possibly three, fatigue or tactical changes. Losing a player early to injury would severely hamper his options, allowing Ronny only one change, if he wants to keep a sub for late game, or extra time, contingencies. For what it’s worth, I believe the knocks taken by Lustig and Griffiths in the first leg cost us fresh legs, and ultimately territory, leading up to Malmo’s second.
Celtic’s perpetrations went a lot better than Malmo’s over the weekend. A comfortable win with what for all intents and purposes is our second 11, while Malmo put a full-strength team out, restored those suspended for last week’s Celtic game, and lost to lowly Hacken.
Journalists close to Malmo assure me the Swedes hope to tempt Celtic into an attacking formation, just as they did to Salzburg in the last round. Salzburg arrived full of confidence but were picked apart on the break. Celtic’s own pace on the break is one worry for Malmo, who want Celtic to play high up the field. The other is defending set-pieces. Hacken, who don’t have the height advantage of Celtic, scored from a corner kick on Saturday.
Winning free kicks 30 yards from goal would be useful. This is Kris Commons territory. Kris knows how to put his body between ball and man, and wait for the barge, although James Forrest displayed the same tactical-awareness in the first leg. I’d have Kris holding a training session tonight: “This is what to do with your first touch, this is where you put your bum, then wait….”
Protect the defence, break quickly through Forrest, Johansen and Griffiths, and allow van Dijk, Boyata, Bitton, Griffiths and Lustig/Ambrose to give Malmo something to worry about at set-pieces, and we’ll win this game.
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Shocking news about our buddy TCR.
I hope and pray that that you make a full recovery buddy.
God bless
Very sorry to hear about TCR.
Feckin scumbags.
Get better soon mi amigo.
HH
YNWA
I will pray for tricoloured no one deserves to be treated so badly and all for a mobile phone. They cant just take the phone but have to batter the poor bloke to near death.Calling them animals is being unkind to animals as they dont treat each other so badly the folk it done this are pure evil. H.H.
Tricoloured ribbon.
Sorry to hear about what happened.
My best wishes prayer said for your recovery hope you get better.
Hail hail.
Just read the Clumpany’s latest blog, hoping he isn’t serious about moving on.
Keep clumping, don’t let the bassas get you down.HH
Sickening to hear that news about mo chara TCR.
He’s a tough Bhoy though.
Please God he recovers well.
Praying for ye now D.
:(
KTF.
Shocking news regarding Tricoloured Ribbon.
I pray they catch these bastards.
You will be in my prayers mo chara.
YNWA.
HH
KTF
UTLR
Coorslad
Shocking news.
Chilcot continues to drag his heels in the Iraq war enquiry I feel sorry for the people looking for some answers.It looks like they are not going to get answers but just a cover up. H.H.
Tricoloured Ribbon
I only know you from reading your posts on here, but shame on them and may God bless you and lift you up again. Our thoughts and best wishes are with you.
KevinBhoy.
Regarding Ronny’s dilemma of whether to play Effe or Janko or even Fisher if Lustig can’t make it, cannot deny that Effe has vast experience of two World Cups and an African nations winners medal where he was a standout for Nigeria in all those competitions playing on the right side of defence. He was on a high until that crazy decision was made to play him that night against Juventus after just getting off the plane after a long haul flight. My problem with the lad apart from the odd blunder is that he is a very poor at crossing accurately into the box. Big decision for Ronny.
I think Stuart Armstrong could be our main man on Tuesday night. Stuart is very comfortable playing in Europe particularly after his super show against Milan last season. He definitely seems to revel in the big match atmosphere and his move to Celtic is giving him that platform. Tradition favours the Celts with a great record against Swedish opposition and we have the team to do the business tomorrow night.
Best wishes to TCR for a full and speedy recovery.
YNWA
Coorslad
Shocking news about TCR.Will pray for a speedy recovery.HH
TCR
Thoughts are with you
Keep strong.
HH
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned but last nights SPFL highlights show on the BBC was an absolute joke,not only did they interrupt top league highlights to show a game featuring 2 sides from the Championship,they then left Celtic till last and we got about 5 mins worth without a single mention of Scott Allen,who in previous weeks had been a hot topic regarding the 3 year old club!
Don’t know if you can tell but I’m a bit p****d off
HH
TCR
Get well soon mate
God bless
Coorslad, terrible news about TCR.
please keep us posted.
where did this happen ? and who did it ?
Alright ruggyman, think we should play 4-1-4-1
……………….gordon………………..
lustig….boyota…vvd………..izzy
…………………..nir…………….
…..brown……joe….amstrong…
………………..forrest (free role)
…………………griff…………………
back 6 keep tight
maximum 4 players attacking at any one time
use griff, Forrest and 2 of brown, Joe or amstrong to support
if we attack in usual style we lose, simply keep as tight as possible and be hard to breakdown
they will leave gaps and we have enough pace to hurt them
hh
Bad news about TCR just know him from the blog. get well soon man.
Any chance of a Hootenanny in Derry soon and get these bas(&#@$……
Shocking news about TCR thoughts with him and his family
Thoughts and prayers with TCR and his family for a full, speedy recovery.
As well as the game being on BT sport Europe tomorrow, it is also on TV3 in Ireland, with Neil Lennon and Brian Kerr in the studio.
Sipsini- I’ve asked BMCUW to send you my email addy mate HH
Bada Bing that sounds like a good idea.
HH
KTF
UTLR
TCR- He was on the blog last night and was in good form, see below.
TRICOLOURED RIBBON on 23RD AUGUST 2015 8:52 PM
Magners flowing doon the thrapple.Magic.C’mon boys ,guernica is right.There is an improvement in the Zombs.To say otherwise is just silly.
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To say I’m sick is an understatement.
Hope you recover quickly mate and can enjoy a Magners soon.
As for the scumbags….…
Awful news about TCR.
Hopefully he will make a full and speedily recovery.
YNWA.
san diego bhoy
Cheers.
I have been diving for a few years, but I am obviously not as experienced as you. Funny as I am terrified of water, but I do love diving! My neighbour (the old fella I bring to the club sometimes) has a son who is an underwater welder, and I met a lady at the course this weekend, who is also studying to be an underwater welder! I am more of a recreational diver, and only go when I am on holiday south. So far, I seen have massive turtles and rays in Roatan and Barbados … I love seeing the animals (not that kind!) … and my dream is to someday see a whale shark on a dive. I was told that I might need to go a bit deeper than 18 metres for that, which is why I was doing the Advanced Open Water course this week.
We may go to Mexico in the new year, so I may try a dive at Cozumel…. although, not being a very good swimmer, the drift diving thing was not my favourite. Thoughts?
And you? Best dive?
Bada…
Cheers mate, it isn’t anything serious, just a new jumped up manager trying to move the goalposts.
Big shock over here following the sudden death of Johnny Lyons of 98fm who hosted an excellent Sunday morning sports programme on the Irish radio station. Johnny was only in his forties and was a huge personality on sports radio. What I liked about Johnny although he was a Leeds fan he did not suffer like many from EPL tunnell vision and frequently had former Celts on the show giving updates on the club’s fortunes.
An interview with John Hartson following his cancer scare was reckoned to be one of the highlights of his career in journalism. Johnny will be greatly missed on Sunday mornings.
Sips/bada
SIpsini
sent you bada bing gmail email via text
Good Evening.
Here’s another wee read.
“The Final Clumpany Blog?”
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/the-final-clumpany-blog/
Enjoy the rest of the evening.
The clumpany
Just read an retweetedshocking that these clowns can’t do the job they are paid to do and come out with the old obsessed rubbish
TheClumpany
Keep on Clumping’
Hail Hail
Hope TRC makes a full and speedy recovery. I also hope the scum responsible are identified and dealt with in an ‘appropriate’ Derry manner.
YNWA
Malmo coach furious about Scottish journalists and lazy misquotations/mistranlations.
Poor old TCR
Very best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.
Always enjoyed any interaction with him.
Mindless violence, sometimes despair of humanity.
STEPHBHOY….
U might be right in some respects, I think in Quarabag Brown was pushed further ahead of Bitton to join Johansen in harassing the opponents. The shape can flexibly go to 4-1-4-1….
However I don’t see Forrest being given a free role… He will predominantly be asked to attack down the right, and threaten their left back. Both he and Armstrong can drift in field at any given time, but the over-riding requirement will be for both players to hold the wide left and wide right positions.
T.C.R.
Hope you have a quick and full recovery..
HH