While Maribor were clearly second best at home to Celtic last week they remain a potent threat to our season. You can be sure they’ve watched every minute of every game Celtic have played this season and will have dissected each defensive lapse. Our acknowledged weaknesses – primarily a defence which has yet to find cohesion – will be well-known to each of them.
The vast acreage of Celtic Park should suit the mobile, pressing, game Ronny Deila has brought to our play. It will be difficult for Maribor to cover all defensive zones, so with Celtic certain to play without a target-man, I expect the visitors to concede territory on the wings, defend their penalty area and force Celtic to play through them.
We will inevitably leave space at the back, in particular down the wings. How attentive we deal with this risk could determine the outcome of the tie.
Maribor’s schedule since facing Celtic on Wednesday suggests their biggest challenge will be to maintain energy levels late in the game. Thursday will have been a rest day, only light training would have taken place Friday and the bulk of the first team had a league game on Saturday evening. Yesterday would be another rest day, and they will travel today before a light job on Celtic Park this evening.
By contrast, the bulk of those who will start for Celtic tomorrow will have had normal preparatory training Friday, Saturday, Sunday, with some light work tomorrow. Those who made substitute appearances on Saturday will not have made a significant debit on energy levels.
We need to keep the ball moving early on, curtail rest times and have Maribor accessing their reserve tanks as early as possible.
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Kev Jungle
In case you haven’t noticed, Celtic have a very important game tonight. Why are you peddling your own MSM driven agenda and deriding Celtic fans who are wholeheartedly getting behind the team?
You are a disgrace!
sadiesbhoy, worth pointing out that the same ICM sample indicated no movement in voting intention after the debate (ie the Yeses were still Yes, and the Nos still Nos).
Doubt it’s a game-changer and therefore shouldn’t be reported as one.
kevjungle is a celtic fan…not a ‘supporter’.
11:46 on 26 August, 2014
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
11:43 on 26 August, 2014
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Who’s Sadie?
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Sadie was my mother. She died of cancer when she was 38 and I was 5 years old.
malorbhoy@11:41
The cat is sleeping in her Igloo, and all is well with the World
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Dude is this Tim Secret Squirrel code or what?
BroadswordCallingDannyBhoyCSC
;-)
HH jamesgang
Turkeybhoy at 1157.
That’s a long post with almost not a single truth contained within it.
Quite an achievement, even for a Nat. Well done.
italiabhoy
12:01 on 26 August, 2014
sadiesbhoy, worth pointing out that the same ICM sample indicated no movement in voting intention after the debate (ie the Yeses were still Yes, and the Nos still Nos).
Doubt it’s a game-changer and therefore shouldn’t be reported as one.
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I’ve made that point twice.
skyisalandfill
11:30 on
26 August, 2014
Has anyone worked out where Kev goes aff oot to?
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I reckon he needs to get aff oot of the nineties or is it the eighties that he is stuck in!
1 of the things that puzzles me is that he holds that period in such high esteem while having such a problem with the way the club is run today, when the way it was being run then…..almost led to us going bust????
Looking forward to the game tonight – here’s hoping for a good result! I suspect Maribor will start as they started the 2nd half of the last game – attacking play from the outset. If so then we need to be prepared to defend well and take the game to them from the off.
Anyway…..
So is it going to be the same time tonight as played in the 1st leg…..or is KC going to get slipped into a different formation tonight?
Ernie Lynch
They’ve been trying to hand over ST money all summer as a group and were given assurances they’d be sorted in time for the Dundee United match.
They are now being asked to go on a game by game basis which will involve forking out more than everyone else.
A bit harsh don’t you think?
I don’t know who you go to CP with but if Celtic said you couldn’t I bet you wouldn’t be too happy.
HH
There’s a time when ‘sorry’ is the only right answer.
12.02 was one of these moments Kev IMHO.
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
12:03 on
26 August, 2014
malorbhoy@11:41
The cat is sleeping in her Igloo, and all is well with the World
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Dude is this Tim Secret Squirrel code or what?
BroadswordCallingDannyBhoyCSC
;-)
HH jamesgang
You have got it in one
GCHQ CSC
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
12:02 on
26 August, 2014
Moving,pal.
Jamesgang
Are you going for a pre-match pint in Glasgow?
JJ
Jamesgang and macjay
Thanks.
Kevjungle
Brainwashing?
Never thought of that.
Where do you keep it?
TOSB, Message delivered with dignity & respect. God Bless your Mam, she would be proud of you or should I say She is proud of you. ImaBelieverCSC.
Thunder Road
How you doin’ my friend?
I asked Kev ages ago why he constantly harks back to the early 1980s when we did have a team full of great players but who played in Europe only once after Christmas; 1980 when we lost 3-2 on aggregate to Real Madrid.
Since the year 2000, we have had 4 post Christmas Euro adventures, plus 3 other CL group campaigns. The club is in rude financial health.
Yet this eejit promotes Keevins’ agenda.
WTF?
Craig Gordon struggling for tonight’s game
new article posted.
JJ
Sadly not mhate. In and out in the car with the wee Mhan. School night!
Will swing past CQN corner if I’m in time.
Ching Ching!
HH jamesgang
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
God bless your Mum!
Said a wee prayer for her too!
Take care.
Just bring the passion tonight Bhoys.
COYBIG
Let’s do it.
Spd1956
st patricks day 1956
12:19 on 26 August, 2014
Just bring the passion tonight Bhoys.
COYBIG
Let’s do it.
Spd1956
Rumours that Gordon is out and Zakluska to start……
Jaysus…
Timbhoy2
We always Park next Street along from Nuneaton st.(just off London Road)
Wee industrial unit pay £3 but car safe and < 5 minutes walk to Celtic End.
You can after game then come onto Nuneaton street and jump onto new road that will take you down past Shawfield and onto M74 link road.
None of us driving tonight right enough as Euro games are always Bevvy and pre match meal.
Not sure why people are still engaging with KevJungle, he seems to get off on the responses forthcoming.
Taking my oldest bhoy tonight and looking forward to cheering Ronny and the Hoops on to what should be a fine victory (need to keep it tight)
Hail Hail
Jc2 thanks for that,forgot about there ,brought up there in Mordaunt Street,I will head for there .im leaving early Livingston might take a walk down to see the houses in the Atheletes village. would like to go back to dear old glesga ,after being out here over 40 yrs.
Zaluska, bit nervous for me ,stays on his line ,oh dear
ger57
I am doin alright thanks :)
How are you?
Just back from the dentist and cracked open the 1st of many cold beers to be consumed throughout the day in the build up to this evenings match and the most pleasing thing was that despite a frozen top lip…..i did not spill a drop!
The format these competitions take now may a factor in us still being in Europe after Christmas and perhaps things may have been different for the team then if it was not a straight knock-out?
The players were not subjected to the microscopic examination of their performances in those days as they are now as well and we probably only prefer to remember the great moments….i am sure they all had their bad days as well!
Don’t get me wrong…..i would dearly love to see some of those guys in the hoops today but like a lot of players when absent from the team…..they suddenly become better?!