The first half of our Champions League campaign saw games against both our Pot 1 teams (Dortmund, Leipzig), one of our Pot 2 teams (Atalanta), and Slovan Bratislava, who were the highest ranked Pot 4 team – immediately below Celtic in the rankings.
Before a ball was kicked, my expectations at this stage was to be sitting on 3 points, while Opta told us finishing with 9 points would be enough to qualify in 69% of simulations. A lot has changed since.
There are some ominously strong Champions League sides below us. Atletico, Real Madrid, Milan and Bayern Munich (all on 6 points), with PSG on 4. Nice, though it would be to see them drop out, we should expect all four to finish strong.
Opta have not updated these specific stats since this week’s results but if they do, the chance of qualification on 9 points will be significantly less than 69%. 10 points, which they previously allocated a 99% chance, is now likely to be the cutoff, with a lot less certainty than at the start of the season.
Tuesday’s performance was so impressive that we have earned the right to look forward confidently, but we are not alone. Brugge’s win over Aston Villa last night put them on 6 points ahead of their visit to Glasgow this month.
They had a poor start to the season but their only defeat since September was away to Milan. Matchday 5 could put us looking at a seeded position, or we could be among those looking ominously at Atletico, Real and the like. There are no hiding places at this altitude.
Not everyone has this stress, look out for our Coefficient Monkeys to earn us some points in the lesser leagues tonight.
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ONENIGHTINLISBON on 7TH NOVEMBER 2024 6:54 PM
On Trump. His policies are irrelevant – he is unfit for any job never mind the most important one in the world.
*whit policies, wtf he only joined the republican party as the democrats widnae have him, first of all it was about making money and next staying out of prison, now its back tae making money for him and his scabby family
Started to watch the hertz game after 12th minute, seen more football in the next 27 minutes than the entire hun gave 🙄
Game even
Greeenpinata
It’s a fluid area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pieepYR0ao
Looked at livescore updates
Chelsea 6 shots on target, 6 goals
7 shots
Noah all at sea at Chelsea
Six nil down
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in the real world they should be no more than 25 quid.
but scottish football is so ridiculously over-priced, and has been for years
Noah all at sea at Chelsea
Six nil down
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Noah’s “two by two” defensive system just isnt working.
Surprised at that Spurs result.
With Ange stating (factually) he always wins something in his second season I would have thought he’d be going hell-for-leather in all the cup competitions given he has hee-haw chance of winning the league.
A Europa Cup would buy him much kudos.
Spurs were down to 10 men
Forster in goal for Spurs
spurs were pish long before they went down to 10 men, from the start actually.
they arent interested in that tourny
6 shots, six goals.
Is Barkas in goal for Noah?
What tournament are they interested in??
Hopefully it’s not the league.
Nice headed finish from Hertz’s opponents (don’t know their name and never heard of them).
Hertz lost their way now, time for another game.
“Shanks” won’t get his dream move to the huns with finishing like that 😮
You lot are an absolute shower. So there now.
herts have deserved something out this game.
top goal though
lets all do the huddle
Ticket prices is an old gripe.
However, if you pay circa £650 for a season ticket, giving you 19 games, the least Celtic can charge for a one off would be £35.
Would you like to see a non Season Ticket person getting a match for less than you pay?
My actual figures may not be spot on but the principle remains.
£25 is a non starter.
Another lovely headed goal by the Germans.
great goal again
Nae luck hertz, ya smelly hun bassas.
What about Jonny Kenny as our third striker next season. He’s already our player and he’s scoring for fun in Ireland and the Europa Conference League for Shamrock Rovers. We need to extend his contract as I believe it runs out at the end of the season.
lets all do the huddle
Ticket prices is an old gripe.
However, if you pay circa £650 for a season ticket, giving you 19 games, the least Celtic can charge for a one off would be £35.
Would you like to see a non Season Ticket person getting a match for less than you pay?
My actual figures may not be spot on but the principle remains.
£25 is a non starter.
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so i obviously didnt go into that much detail – i include season ticket prices in that (my own included which hit the 600 quid mark)
goes without saying that they cant charge 25 quid for those specific individual tickets because that would under cut the season tickets.
my point is that scottish football is grossly over-priced for what is on offer
A bit of a mismatch … Chelsea v the wee bit from Shetland …😁😉
Wee guy , don’t know how this kindle does it 😵
Not exactly back of a fag packet,done a wee bit of work on it,IF,we win our next two games,( Not going further),we could very well be,looking after the next two sets of fixtures,hovering around the top 8/10 place.
Ibrox sitting in 10th with 7 pts – that will be final total – will finish 26th HH
lets all do the huddle
No argument here.
Totally agree.
However, I think, since prize money, TV deals( feckin joke- Bowling Club negotiators) and sponsorship (league wise) are all crap, Celtic must try to coin it in with Season Books.
A real problem.
The best joke I heard about Celtic supporters thinking too far ahead was a twitter statement that read something like:-
“I’m not the kind of fan who gets too far ahead of himself but can somebody tell me if the World Club final is a two legged affair still”
No argument here.
Totally agree.
However, I think, since prize money, TV deals( feckin joke- Bowling Club negotiators) and sponsorship (league wise) are all crap, Celtic must try to coin it in with Season Books.
A real problem.
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theres no going back now obviously. nothing ever gets cheaper!
but i always think about fans from some (and i mean some and not all) other teams coming to play us, paying a fortune for a pishy view for a game that their team might struggle to be in the game at any time.
that doesnt mean they cant or wont beat us obviously, anything might happen.
but if i didnt have a season ticket and had to pay 35 quid for a game against ross county, then i think i would be going round all my mates with season tickets to see if any of them werent going.
and if that didnt work then i would bite the bullet and pay the 35 quid 😄
As I say, mate, no argument from me.
But, we’re stuck with our pishy league and even pishier league ‘management’.
Which country do Naoh play in?
HH
😄 just watched the Celtic TV replay of Hatate’s goal.
“its an own goal”
“no it isnt, its hatate, he came out of nowhere”
i might have paraphrased some of the above but still 🤦🏻♂️
hatate didnt come out of nowhere!
AT
FC Noah are from Armenia and play in the country’s Premier League.
They finished second in the standings last season, behind champions Pyunik, which earned them a spot in Conference League qualifying. They made it through to the league phase by defeating Shkendija, Sliema, AEK Athens and Ruzomberok.
To qualify for the competition proper represents a huge achievement for the team from Armavir, who were only founded in 2017 as FC Artsakh. Former regional Minister of Defence Karen Abrahamyan bought the club in 2019 and rebranded them as FC Noah. They were purchased by Vardges Vardanyan last year, who plans to build a new stadium as part of plans to elevate the club to become “the foundation for Armenian football’s future”.