Jablonec are not a great team, but we faced a few who fall into that category since our last away win in February without scoring four goals and creating enough chances to easily double that. Ange Postecoglou continues to learn about his squad and unlike away to Mitjylland a week earlier, we were well prepared.
Yesterday I asked to “see more of [Liel Abada’s] timed runs into the box”. The evidence continues to arrive; Liel is a player who will score and create goals at a rate we have missed in recent seasons. This knack of arriving in the box and the right time, in the right place, before a cross arrives is golden. Think Alan Thompson at his lethal best.
Kyogo Furuhashi made the most of his full debut. The movement of the front three caused Joblonec problems and it was Kyogo’s movement that created the goal opportunity. Nir Bitton picked him out with a 30-yard pass, a pristine first touch and the deftest dink did the rest. As I heard from a teenager at the time, “That goal is a solid 9 out of 10”.
As anyone who watched the game, or caught John Hartson’s remarkable reaction, will know, the defence is still not right. We lost two dreadful goals. You will have noticed Carl Starfelt was the closest defender to both goalscorers when the ball went into the net. He did not start that way when the key forward passes were made.
For the first, Bitton was on his heels, body shape was wrong and Starfelt was left the impossible task of making up ground. The second goal was more of a structural problem.
Starfelt and Bitton were both marking strikers in the middle of the field and the full backs were in advanced positions when Celtic lost the ball. Ismaila Soro has covering duties but he was ball watching when the scorer made a run from deep.
We cannot leave two at the back against two attackers or we will see a lot more damage from similar deep runs. Although we can blame Soro for ball watching, we need to shape the team to accommodate what will inevitably happen during a game. Ismaila’s starting position was all wrong, he cannot get drawn into the role of supporting the player in possession at the cost of loitering deep.
It was great to see Joe Hart between the sticks and John Hartson was right, if a little hysterical, we still need defenders. Perhaps a few.
Would we have won so comfortably if Odsonne Edouard started? I’m not convinced.
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Love this young Geordie chanter Sam Fender.
Great name for a guitarist.
Great songwriter. His lyrics are so honest.
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just listenin to a song lyric i dont understand
‘we close our eyes to see the final frame’
i would have thought keeping the eyes open would have been a better idea in that situation
great song though
Have never liked or got on wi folk fae Wales.
Had a few scraps in the past wi Welsh pricks, living in England. English arse lickers in general.
Love these bhoyos though.
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My favourite song of 2021 so far.
Have told my four weans that wee Ellie is gonnae be their new maw soon. 😁
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see yi later at.corner b4 half 1 is my entry
time..see with weather.😊.later
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AT
Me and my grandson must be in Paradise by 1.30.
I will pick you up at your hoose at 1pm.
We will go together tomorrow. 👍🍀💚
Just got a nudge there……any of you blaggards said anything about foxes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntvEDbagAw
Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wSXTN2EfRo
Ave Ave
Rangers FC 1872 – 2012 (vis a vis, computruerunt jumenta in inferno sint vobiscum)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTn01jjEFfY
Money In My Pocket – Dennis Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1VbRLBY6vA
Banco De Gaia kincajou
thatcwiz cheery 🤣🤣🤣 lol.
https://youtu.be/BE-mY2wPcHk
hh
The Paragons – “The Tide Is High”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc
Hook’s Receptionist – Sylvia’s Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcJNljjTG0
Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k
M. Craft – Snowbird (shhhh, silentium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhBaDUB0k-g
U2- The Wanderer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dZvQxYX1g
The Last Thing On My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMiFieDwsA
The Partisan – Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYy_8u4blk
This Must Be The Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVoPzA0g3Ac
Redemption Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4W8944o_k
Girl from the North Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxURXuzRUX4
Further On Up The Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMCQgWtST5c
Sionnaigh
That was a Knightswood Mod disco classic by DD.
The Israelites. Love it still.
Play it often when I fancy a dance, and imagine I am in Knightswood Community Centre Disco Alderman Road.
Oglaigh Joe McDonnell, IRA. (Concert Orchestra)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7S18Ga88A
Heard this first track from the eponymous album The Clash, when I was 12 in first year Saint Tams. My life was changed by The Clash.
Still my favourite ever band, although Radiohead are a very close second.
Of the River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KHkK2elX0
Good Night God bless folks
The greatest band in the Universe today.
A song written by Thom Yorke, as he sailed up the Liffey into Dublin.
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Movin’ on Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjnf8mQ6BvM
I Won’t Back Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggRxWXdTng
DELANEYS DUNKY
Did you know any Crossan’s out in Knightwood’s wild west?
Bobby Gillespie is a Tim and Scotsman.
His two greatest pleasures he has just revealed in a radio show.
The bold bhoy told an English radio station, that 2 of his greatest pleasures in life, are when England and the Glesga Huns get beat at fitba. The interview to the solely English audience got scrubbed and never broadcast. I love Bobby Gillespie 💪🍀💚
Proddy Fenian bassa. 💪🍀💚😚
Summer In Siam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66quTi26YLY
Yer man Bobby Gillespie.
Fenian through and through.
https://g.co/kgs/NnYHSo
Me Llaman Calle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7G4vxoDF8
Soul Rebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2DhuD5bijs
This song is for every Celtic supporter.
Time to unite.
Leave your politics at the door when you enter Paradise today.
Cannae wait to be cheering the Bhoys later today fae Lisbon Lions stand 💪🍀💚
https://g.co/kgs/pxJ4DD