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  1. Snake Plissken on

    I think given the players they had missing AND the level of their performance measured against the best I’ve seen Celtic play in Italy it is clear a lot of comments are coming from frustration.

     

     

    Milan are not the team of old, much of the trepidation about this game is the name and the Stadium but as a team they were poor and looked more than ordinary for long spells. The equally frustrating thing is they will pick up more points in this section and we cannot say the same of Celtic.

     

     

    We usually have one great away performance and two bad ones – we need to address that now if you consider this to be a great performance and replicate that level WITH goals.

     

     

    At home we can beat that team we played against tonight but we must pick up something in our next two matches against Barcelona AND Ajax or the section will be over for us.

     

     

    Huge matches coming up and I think it is fair to say the next two sides we play against will have a different level of performance to Milan.

     

     

    Brown, Sami, Stokesy all unlucky with their efforts but you have to bury chances at this level or you’ll get punished.

     

     

    If we are ticked off at not getting something in Milan I happen to think that is some level of progress.

     

     

    No more hard luck stories – just win Celtic.

  2. fanadpatriot on

    Whatever you think of his antics,Bollotelli is some player.Isnt it great to be in the Champions League.

  3. estorilbhoy on

    Enjoyed tonight, on our club getting beaten by Milan. Now there’s an oxymoron.

     

     

    Very good display by Neil’s team and undone by a jammy goal.

     

     

    Tried to find the Italian word for jammy, but maybe itialabhoy can help?

     

     

    Good feeling is that I have went from apprehension 2hours ago to ‘bring it on’, now that I have confidence in he team neil is pulling together following that performance.

     

     

    Belief is the key and he new ghuys will have got hat in abundance tonight.

     

     

    Hail! Hail!

  4. Clink\o/ on

    gamriestu

     

    “Samar-ass”

     

    Thats a Celtic player you’re dissing there.

     

    And a very important Celtic player to boot.

     

    You know , one of those that actually gets us.

     

    If you can’t see his attributes then you know nothing about football

     

    or is there a more obvious reason

  5. bournesouprecipe on

    When Celtic didn’t score first, the writing was on the wall, and Milan actually scored early in Barcelona last year, contrast.

     

     

    NFL kicked every ball you could see he knew the clock wouldn’t help us and every missed chance drew the inevitable deflection, or lucky goal for the money of Milan.

     

     

    Plus ca change.

     

     

    Dining at the top table CSC

  7. corkcelt on

    Milan are not a poor team and that will be shown as Group progresses, we matched them everywhere tonight. Their shot which gave them their first was going woefully wide. It was pure bad luck, genuinely believe if that hadn’t gone in we would have got the draw.

  8. Dolph on

    Corkcelt – yes, I agree with you about our corners

     

    I believe we had 12, but none seemed to threaten

     

    With crossers like Charlie/ KC / Izzy – that is an area that I was dissapointed about tonight

  10. Kayal33 on

    ….PFayr supports WeeOscar

     

    22:03 on

     

    18 September, 2013

     

     

    Matthews can play as right winger but his crossing was awful. Sort that out and we have an asset for European games, the additional bonus being he naturally tracks back as well.

     

    Thought the centre back partnership was for the most part superb. Virgil cut out and blocked almost everything and Efe was making the runs our midfielders should have been making.

     

    Agree, Stokes can’t play up on his own in games of that magnitude, domestically yes but not CL.

  12. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    I didnt like the way we seemed to chuck it after the first goal. There was a good 8 mins to go fgs!!

  13. petec - Oscar BraveO - God Bless. on

    Kayal33

     

     

    21:54 on 18 September, 2013

     

     

    Virgil Van Dijk definitely looks like an upgrade on Kelvin Wilson. Him and Efe were superb.

     

    __________________________________________________

     

     

    I agree, Kelvin done very well for Celtic last year in the CL as well. Virgil was oozing class just like his, what looked like his Best Pal, Efe at RCH. Superb performances.

     

     

    Neil is so far advanced in his thinking, he is addressing the malaise in domestic games by bringing 2 Uber Centre Backs, who could, if the midfield and forwards are tightly marked, walk on and take shots at the opposing keeper, given the real movement from the Celtic Mid & Forwards these things are entirely possible.

     

     

    I certainly Loved the way both foraged forward tonight in the San Siro with Great purpose and belief, the team m8s covering was highly drilled stuff.

     

     

    We have a real Genius at the helm.

  14. billc on

    We competed well for 80 minutes but visibly tired and lost cohesion last 10 minutes. Very jittery first 10 minutes or so but came on to a game and looked dangerous down the right with Lustig & Matthews.

     

     

    Lack of composure let us down – final balls were often poor, and when goal opportunities were presented we didn’t work the keeper. We never looked as though we had a real goal scoring striker threat.

     

     

    The defence played pretty well, and Efe Ambrose provided real penetration when he carried the ball deep into the Milan half.

     

     

    Just watched the Brown/Balottelli incident which led to the 2nd goal on after game TV review – Balottelli made the most of it just as he did throughout the game. Scott Brown needs to wise up!

     

     

    Can’t help feeling that we should have made our substitutions a wee bit earlier, too many players running on empty. With experienced CL players on the bench (Pukki, Boerrigter) we could have injected energy and freshness a wee bit sooner.

     

     

    Nevertheless, lots of positives to take out of the performance.

  15. BigChipsUK - There are only two SPL teams in Glasgow... Celtic and Partick Thistle on

    Why is it when the Celtic players impose themselves on allegedly superior opposition and stop them from playing their usual game, the opposition are poor rather than Celtic being good?

     

     

    Was it a poor team that lost 2-1 at CP on 7th November last year? No. It was the best team in the world. Unfortunately for Barca their opponents played brilliantly to suppress their creative edge and stifle their game… then scored with virtually their only two chances of the game.

     

     

    If we had scored with HALF of the chances we created tonight we’d have been going home with three points.

     

     

    As Milan’s De Jong said himself, Milan were lucky to win the game tonight. End of.

  18. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    A sonogram

     

     

    Auldheid

     

     

    As you can see there are more than me who disagreed with the substitutions. There were a number of tired players in our team. Neil took off the players IMO who might have changed the game in our favour.mStokes hit the bar with a great free kick. He also made a good chance for himself with clever footwork in the first half but naively went for the near post instead of the far post with his shot. I would have changed like for like – Pukki for Stokes. Matthews is right sided and we were experiencing a lot of joy down that side so why change him for a left sided player?. Sammi was not great tonight so why not swap Derk for Sammy?

     

     

    Only my opinion.

  19. desertbhoy on

    Bottom line.. We played well and never looked like losing, but….. It always happens, kicked in the nuts!!

     

     

    We should never have lost that, but hey ho, shit happens.. Almost always to us, but we’ll learn.

     

     

    Only criticism is subs should have been made earlier.. Anton hooked at HT.

     

     

    ..but, onwards and upwards.

  23. tigertim on

    How many players do we have that are one footed, Commons and Stokes especially so, amazing how many times the ball doesn’t fall to the right foot….em the left foot.

  24. Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way on

    there are some complete horses archies on here tonight…..I wonder why that is??

     

     

     

    we controlled most of the game and were very unlucky to lose, we look a better team than last season…I will take that and look forward

  25. Kayal33 on

    Oglach

     

    22:05 on

     

    18 September, 2013

     

     

    Can’t wear same colour of shorts (UEFA rule) and we never play in the hoops with anything other than white.

  27. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Evening All,

     

     

    Really gutted.

     

     

    Over the next 48 hours I expect the “we were unlucky” line to peddled just enough to hide any analysis of the deficiencies.

     

     

    This wasn’t “MILAN (GASP) AT THE SAN SIRO (GASP)” we played tonight.

     

     

    We played an ordinary team whose form is poor and who have a long injury list.

     

     

    Should have done better.

     

     

    Hard lines? No thanks.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  30. aromananonly1 on

    Would we have lost with Wanyama and Hooper in the team tonight ? Not a chance ! Missed Victors power in midfield and goal threat at set pieces and missed Hoopers presence and finishing up front, are we weaker than last year ? You better believe it !!!! Make no mistake this was an average almost second string Milan side tonight, only one of our replacements started tonight and that says it all ! Pukki is a poor man’s Finnbogasson and if Mulgrew is chosen oven Wanyama’s supposed replacement then that says it all, and before anyone starts about giving them time to Gel and all that other crap, these players that were signed as replacements are International players and not kids ! and before I get a load of grief how may saves did their keeper make ?

  31. southside on

    Gutted at losing to AC Milan in the San Siro.

     

    Looking for someone to blame but I think we were just victims of rotten luck.

     

    With 20m left was shouting for Neil to get Pukki and Boerrigter on.

     

    Well, he did and we still lost.

     

    Lots of positives going into the next game, and indeed for the whole campaign.

  32. SuperSutton on

    Don’t get too hung up on not taking our chances. Milan had more and better chances than us and yet didn’t look like scoring due to brilliance of Forster.

     

     

    They got lucky, deflection went in. We didn’t.

  33. Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar on

    SF/pfayrDoc

     

     

    I genuinely didn’t see signs of players looking shattered.

     

     

    All night we’d coped admirably playing a 4-4-1-1 system. When Pukki replaces Commons the system is always going to change to 4-4-2, it was a decision designed to win the game as opposed to consolidating what we had.

     

     

    It was reckless and naive in my opinion.

  34. gamriestu on

    Clink\o/

     

    Well met my friend.

     

    I stick by my assessment which I ‘ve held for many a month.

     

    Don’t tell me there are times when you are hiding behind your hands when he gets the ball and goes on a “run?” I WOULd love to see the stats on how many of these runs have actually ended up without him losing the ball.

     

    Sorry if I have a different opinion from you and probably a great deal of our fellow supporters but, there you go, I’m a maverick… bit like Samar-ass I suppose.

  35. Cowiebhoy in support of Fearless Oscar & Family on

    On the corners, just a Question.

     

     

    Why a 6″3 left footed player taking them, and a 5″8 left footed player in box, only changed on the 9th I think.

     

     

    Hail hail

  37. Turkeybhoy on

    Only thing that let us down tonight was the ball into the box.For 20 years I went to almost every away game,and never saw them perform as well as this,against diddy teams.We can still take 9 points from this group so nothing lost yet.

     

    Biton,Pukki,to get a couple of games before the next one.

     

    Onwards and hopefully upwards.HAIL HAIL.

  38. latchford on

    Normally I am very critical I defeat. Tonight I make an exception. Celtic played well and lost to a team who got a break at a crucial time.

     

     

    I agreed with Lenny subs.

     

     

    Some players put in a huge shift and were high impact. Others did their best but it wasnt enough. However it’s a team game and the team played well.

     

     

    As they brought on Robinho it put everything into perspective.

     

     

    I hoped for a point as great Celtic teams have never won in Italy.

     

     

    I watched the game in the Blarney Pub in Berlin with two Italians supporting Celtic. As usual good Celtic crowd with a splattering of German blondes to ease the tensions.

     

     

    We are at the top table where we belong and have taken the golden goose.

  40. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Does anyone truly think Milan were anything other than awful tonight

     

     

    Poor passing , dreadful fullbacks, Balotelli in the huff , aimless punts up the park ….

     

     

    They are not a bad team …hells teeth the were murder tonight

  41. tigertim on

    Still don’t get Boerighter, he never appears to be in the right place to get the ball and dosn’t seem involved, haven’t seen this speed everyone talks about either….time yet.

  42. mncelt on

    Anyone who says that based on tonight’s performance that Stokes cannot play the lone striker knows nothing about football.

     

     

    Efe seems to have tidied up his game. Only once tonight did he run into a dead end. The rest of the time he used the ball intelligently and made good runs from the back creating lots of space. Feel good about our 2 CB’s for this season.

     

     

    I really hope Pukki is what we need. Only time will tell.

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