New Uefa seeding rules this year mean that teams in Champions League Pot 2 have a higher aggregate coefficient value than teams in Pot 1. So Barcelona (we’re bound to avoid them now they look a little lost), Atletico, PSG, Borussia Dortmund and the Manchester twins. Only Sevilla and Porto would provide some comfort, the latter, in particular.
From Pot 1 we could do worse than our old friends Spartak Moscow (18 coefficient points), although Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica and Monaco would be decent draws.
As our primary objective is to remain in Europe after Christmas, the real battleground for Celtic is in Pot 3. I’d proverbially bite your hand off for Olympiakos, Anderlecht or Besiktas, even Basel would be acceptable. Prefer to avoid the Italians of Napoli and Roma, as well as Liverpool.
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BIG JIMMY
It what’s left over from the bookies bet last year and the bet I had this year, it’s mugs money, i’v already paid for my brother and myself season tickets for this year, I bet but not that heavy every week mate, I couldent afford it, easy come easy go, it’s the cream cookies money :))
In the nicest possible way, I am shocked at the negative reaction from some on here to our CL draw ?
At ALL costs I wanted and was praying we would avoid that scum Chelsea mob and not for footballing reasons. I like many others, was hoping for avoiding Barca, due to getting a wee bit fed up playing them.
Considering the lack of far away travel for Celtic and our fans with the three clubs we have drawn, then I reckon we should be very happy ? We may not finish any better than 3rd but I would gladly put money on ALL of our opponents were secretly hoping to avoid The Famous Glasgow Celtic……..although none of them would probably admit it.
There is just no pleasing some folk.
I fancy The Famous Glasgow Celtic against ANY mob at Celtic Park, and who’s to say that with our fast players up front we won’t inflict serious damage on the other teams when we play them at their place /
COYBIG.
HH
TONYDONNELLY67 on 25TH AUGUST 2017 9:45 AM
You canny whack putting the bookies money to good use.
I am doing likewise for the last few weeks, although on a smaller scale.
Well done TonyBhoy.
HH
Big Jimmy
I think it is a fantastic draw. I had said beforehand that if we got Anderlecht I would fancy our chances for third spot, which, regardless of the group we were drawn in was our main aim.
We can give a Pot 1 or 2 team a bloody nose on our day but I will just be delighted with beating Anderlecht to 3rd place.
Spartak
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Zbyszek on 25th August 2017 10:07 am
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Hahaha. Well played.
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Hrvatski Jim
From earlier, good to hear
Reading back,I see i have been getting pelters for being angry at our draw for the CL.Excuse me.Are you winding me up?.i will say again,this is a horrendous draw for us.the dates for the games do us no favours either.Anyone thinking that Anderlecht will be a gimme,well,it took Man U till extra time last season to beat them,and were very lucky to do so.They have strengthened since then,so I would rate this game a 50-50 chance.We are trying to get co efficient points,how this group helps in that is beyond me.
I never once said anything about Celtic.Never have done,never will,but just how many mountains do we have to climb season after season in this tournament.I would gladly have taken Liverpool,Spurs,Man U.To draw PSG was a nightmare.They humiliated Barca last year in Paris,what could they do to us?.That is my biggest fear.
I am not throwing the towel in,just raging at our luck.we have performed miracles before.We need a couple more.
Paddy Roberts announced his retirement from football. The 35 year old Man City player has been on loan at Celtic for 15 years.
Or does it just feel like that :))
“Who’d win a fight between a haun-wringer an’ a hun ringer…..?”
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BFDJ THE CHEERLEADER at it again, you have to laugh :))
Martyn Waghorn and Joe Garner are scoring freely for Ipswich, but that’s under no pressure. Could they handle the pressure in the top league up here? You’d have to say no.
There’s not the same scrutiny on them down south when they are playing for these clubs, and as a result they are more relaxed, and maybe that suits them better.
That’s not the type of players that Rangers want, or need, though. They need players who have a bit of bottle in them, and can handle a bit of bad press. They can come out fighting when things are against them, that’s the people Rangers need.
It’s great to see these players doing well down south, but they are with clubs now who are inferior to Rangers in my opinion and under less pressure than they experienced up here in Scotland.
Good luck to them, I wish them well, but I would never say that the club shouldn’t have sold them or it was a mistake to let them go. The weight of the shirt just proved too much.
TD67
What’s all that club nonsense surely he means company
TURKEYBHOY
Well,when we win the group at about 20/1,don’t say ye wurnae telt!
Are you in Glasgow for Remebranve Day? Hootenanny alternative on the agenda…
BFDJ is a sniveling unreconstructed hun trumpet.
The boy Coatzee better get over here quick,because I think the 1st game against PSG will come too quick for Boyatta.Paddy,if he comes wont be a problem.No more injuries,please God.
Anyway lets give St Johnstone a doing tomorrow.
bfdj shouldn’t be near a microphone, he is the hasbeen at the bar who talks about the past as if it was still here and he doesn’t have the intelligence to see the modern game.
relic.
KLV
TURKEYBHOY
St Johnstone are top of the table. Surely we have no chance against the top seeds!()
On the RER B from CDG to Gare du Nord yesterday and got talking to a Norwegian bloke. He asked who I supported and then stated one of his guys used to play for us. Said he was an agent for Thomas Rogne. Anyway – we had a good natter about football and his opinion was that Celtic are untouchable in Scotland – of course I agreed. He spoke very highly of the club and also mentioned (unprompted) that Peter LawwelI was the hardest negotiator he’d come across. He then started talking about “Rangers”. He was reasonably well-informed, but I put him absolutely straight about the liquidation of the old club, creation of a new club and the fact that they are running on empty and facing another long walk of a short pier.
Nice bloke.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 25TH AUGUST 2017 10:25 AM
TURKEYBHOY
Well,when we win the group at about 20/1,don’t say ye wurnae telt!
Are you in Glasgow for Remebranve Day? Hootenanny alternative on the agenda…
I am in negotiations at the moment.Could take longer than Paddys signing.LOL.
Listen,if we get 3rd,I will be ecstatic.I just dont want this team to get a humping.My only fear.
What is the alternative for the Hootnanny?.
Best we could ever hope for given the strength of Pot 2 was a fighting chance to qualify for the Europa League after Christmas.
We’ve got that, a punchers chance and we usually do well under those circumstances. Either way there will be some great nights at Celtic Park and for the travelling hoops.
I remember during Tommy Burns’s time as manager PSG came to Glasgow and gave us a football lesson, 0-3, could happen again of course but you have to be in it to have any chance of winning it!
I see one of the motorway / city centre digital signs had a brick hurled through it yesterday, no doubt when either Leigh or Scotty were giving it laldy and a hurting Hun couldn’t take any more humiliation!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 25TH AUGUST 2017 10:30 AM
TURKEYBHOY
St Johnstone are top of the table. Surely we have no chance against the top seeds!()
Very big smiley.
Good luck to them, I wish them well, but I would never say that the club shouldn’t have sold them or it was a mistake to let them go. The weight of the shirt just proved too much.
Says BFDJ,
I think he made a mistake there.That should have read”The AGE of the shirts”.
Puma still smiling.
RobinBhoy on 25th August 2017 10:31 am
Yes PSG came to Glasgow and won 3-0, quite a side they had then too if I remember rightly – Loko, Ginola, Djorkaeff etc. And when I say etc, its because I can’t remember anyone else! Some team though.
If I remember correctly we drew 0-0 in Paris though, may even have been the first leg,
HH
Just reading back.
Someone posted Moussa is out until next year.
Is he?
Are we likely to have a fit centre back for the PSG game?
See Ollie Burke has been sold to West Brom for £15m – may give us a sense of what citeh will be asking for Paddy :((
Oh,and another thing reading back.That Fairhill Boy,seems to like “Gobbling”far too much for my liking.
Oooohhhh Matron.
TRADITIONALIST88 on 25TH AUGUST 2017 10:38 AM
RobinBhoy on 25th August 2017 10:31 am
Yes PSG came to Glasgow and won 3-0, quite a side they had then too if I remember rightly – Loko, Ginola, Djorkaeff etc. And when I say etc, its because I can’t remember anyone else! Some team though.
If I remember correctly we drew 0-0 in Paris though, may even have been the first leg,
We lost 1_0 in Paris.One of the best trips ever.Celtic fans amazing that night.
Just booked flights for Munich.
In and out of London.
DD I need 1 ticket if at poss bro?
Any hotel recommendations?
HH jamesgang
BeyondExcitedCSC
I was at CP last time psg came and played us off the park, Rai in the middle pinging passes for fun and Loco up front who looked as fast as Usain Bolt when John Hughes was marking him.
Think Mahe played left back for them then.
Closest I’ve came to booing the hoops as they were so poor that night, decided to applaud psg off the pitch instead .
HH
HILBHOY on 25TH AUGUST 2017 10:39 AM
Just reading back.
Someone posted Moussa is out until next year.
Is he?
Are we likely to have a fit centre back for the PSG game?
Phil,do you mean Boyatta?Last update from BR was that he would resume training in early September.
Still too early for PSG game,I would think.
TURKEYBHOY on 25TH AUGUST 2017 10:15 AM
We are The Famous Glasgow Celtic mate…we will make our own luck ( I hope ?) LOL.
The vast majority of the other Groups would have us up against it in all honesty. I’m hoping for a couple of other Bhoys coming in ( hopefully today), and Celtic making a real fist of it, and in the process surprising some folk ( not meaning you) ?
Maybe I’m too much of a Celtic optimist sometimes, but our Bhoys on their game, can match up to most of what Europe can throw at us, especially at Celtic Park imo.
BDJ….is one of the most thickest Chumps I have ever came across, he’s obviously had one bump too many on the heid during his playing days !
He’s even too thick to realise just how thick he comes across, and there are Huns that I know that hate it when he opens his mouth.
He’s also LYING when he wishes Garner, Waghorn well etc……of course he doesn’t.
i have said for years that most footballers are thick as feck…BDJ is just one of the thickest.
BMCUWP,
When 11/11 comes around, remember and let me know when and where we can meet up for a real bevvy. It will be super duper to finally share a beer or 20 with you and whoever else is with us.
11/11….will be written about for years to come.
HH
HH
HH
DAVIDOPOULOS on 25TH AUGUST 2017 8:08 AM
Celtic have amassed 8.5 points thus far in 2017/18
According to Bert’s updated club coefficients for this season last night, we have the 4 pts for qualifying for the group stages and as such don’t get points for wins and draws in qualifying matches ?
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/tcoef2018.html
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/trank2018.html
BIG JIMMY on 25TH AUGUST 2017 6:00 AM
IBMCUWP,
“As for her being MY wee cockney charmer…..I can only dream ?
Shes young enough to be my grand daughter…..but what a wee stoater she is…now if I can only turn the clock back 40 years or so…are there any magic potions oot there ?”
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You could try Donkey at the SPFL, he turned it back 140 for Sevco.
https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/rangers/
TURKEYBHOY
I would not be confident with Bitton and Ajer against PSG.
Is Jozo out injured as well?
DBHOY on 25TH AUGUST 2017 10:46 AM
I was at CP last time psg came and played us off the park, Rai in the middle pinging passes for fun and Loco up front who looked as fast as Usain Bolt when John Hughes was marking him.
Think Mahe played left back for them then.
Closest I’ve came to booing the hoops as they were so poor that night, decided to applaud psg off the pitch instead .
HH
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I also stayed back to applaud them off the pitch as did many Celtic fans that night when they ran amok and won 0-3. Stephane Mahe was left back for them that night.
But don’t forget we held them to a 0-0 draw in the 1st game in Paris, which was the night that the travelling Hoops fans were belting out the Oasis classic…” You’ve got to roll with it”…I think some PSG fans joined in.
I know that some of their fans were in bairds Bar before the 2nd game, and we all got on well despite their feckin colours.
We can do that PSG mob…bring it on….lets roll with it !
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Detailed squad
THE LAST LINE-UP
Ligue 1 – 3. Match day Sun, Aug 20, 2017 – 9:00 PM Uhr
2. Paris SG Paris Saint-Germain 6:2 FC Toulouse Toulouse 9.
Starting line-up: 4-3-3 off. Bench
16
Areola
32
Alves
3
Kimpembe
20
Kurzawa
2
Silva
8
Motta
25
Rabiot
6
Verratti
9
Cavani
11
Di María
10
Neymar
1 Kevin Trapp GK
17 Yuri Berchiche LB
5 Marquinhos CB
12 Thomas Meunier RB
18 Giovani Lo Celso AM
27 Javier Pastore AM
23 Julian Draxler LW
Manager:
Unai Emery
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Turkey Bhoy, Celtic are top of the league, hopefully we’ll stay there after tomorrow’s game.
HH
embramike says ” Yer team’s deid…Beat it!”
8.5 points are counted for the country coefficient average for country rankings but not the club rankings.
Don’t you start me on this!!!!
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