The incentive for Brendan Rodgers and his players is clear, beat AEK Athens and you will face either Malmo or Vidi (known as Videoton until earlier this year) in the Champions League play-off round.
Malmo, who are 16 games into their league programme, will be slight favourites to make the play-off round. They beat Romanians Cluj in the last round and Kosovans Drita in the first qualifier.
The Swedes were eliminated from the second qualifying round last year by Vardar of Macedona – a stage which did not offer the compensation of a Europa League entry.
Vidi recorded the result of the last round by eliminating Ludogorets Razgrad 1-0 on aggregate. They overcame Maltese and Estonian opposition a year ago, before recording a remarkable away goals victory over Girondins Bordeaux. Eventually losing 4-0 on aggregate to Partizan Belgrade.
It all went wrong for Celtic three years ago when former player, Jo Inge Berget returned to haunt us for Malmo. Berget scored twice in the Champions League play-off first leg at Celtic Park in a 3-2 Celtic win, but the Swedes progressed after winning the return 2-0.
Malmo changed manager in June, appointing Uwe Rosler, who was sacked by Fleetwood Town in February, Not a conventional route to Champions League glory.
There are pitfalls if we approach the tie as ill-prepared as we were in 2015, or as Bordeaux were last month, but AEK are by far the strongest team we will face in order to reach the group stage.
It’s all about Celtic Park on Wednesday; the hugest or hugest games.
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turkeybhoy
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THE BATTERED BUNNET on 6TH AUGUST 2018 1:56 PM
Dunno about Carter Blanche, but Blanche Carter was a character in Thunderbirds.
tuntillala tullala tuntilltan tan tan
tunillala tullala tuntilla tan tan
tantilala tantilla lalala tantilla tum tum…
virgil is gone ….but Scotty numero uno strick 8 is still strutting his stuff…
smiley parker gone awol thing
Braw
Has someone had a word with Slippy Stevie about players blessing themselves?…
Neustadt-Braw
I’ve never seen the Thunderbirds tune typed out phonetically but your version is…well…braw…
Don’t forget we have Gordon anaw.
Mon the Hoods…
the quiet wan who dives deep and fearless ….
smiley having a few,s cool Scwalmbrau,s in the shady side of the barn…thing
hoopy days
Braw
Schwalmbrau,s tut tut tut
smiley been sitting here a whiley thing
Braw
YaYa Toure is still without a club. Pity he’s not a centre back
Just had a peep back,after it seems,3 extremely strong wines.Thanks for the Speirs comments.Replies hilarious.Missus givin me the eye,so will be short.
Then again,after 3 wines,I have forgotten what kind of eye she is giving me.
Oh,now I remember.Sorry,must obey.Like the Lunar Eclipse,its a rare occurence.Then again,I cant fault her,I am devilishly handsome in the right light.
Italian ref for Wednesday, never heard of him, Beaton is going to Astana
Celtic 3/4 on Wednesday AEK 4/1
To qualify we are 4/6 they are 11/10
On Thursday Maribor are 10/3 to win.
Has Stevhun Gerrard been cited for his outburst yet?
McGinn to Villa??????
Who will drive him to the airport (is that how it works?) ;-)
Scurrilous rumours CSC ((C) BSR)
https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1026475437365624832?s=12
Paddy Power paid out already
Go tell the Spartim on 6th August 2018 4:29 pm
Villa are skint, they’re trying to offload players. I’m going to their game at Hull tonight, I’ll ask big Brucie if he’s interested ;-)
https://twitter.com/mcgowan_stephen/status/1026480893022666752?s=08
GARY67 on 6TH AUGUST 2018 4:33 PM
Go tell the Spartim on 6th August 2018 4:29 pm
Villa are skint, they’re trying to offload players. I’m going to their game at Hull tonight, I’ll ask big Brucie if he’s interested ;-)
Are we that desperate for a CB? He must be knockin 60 now…?
BSR: I’ll drive him to the airport.
NevertoolateCSC
I thought Villa just had a big investment, maybe Grealish is moving on eventually, even id rather have McGinn than Grealish (too lazy)
If we after McKenna, can see Christie and Allan in a swap deal
If we are after McKenna the scouts need sacked
We should give the Sheep, Allen, Christie and Hayes as an early Christmas present….
Get the decks cleared..
Dessy- there must be better about, i was told a few weeks ago we have asked to be informed of any bids for McKenna, canny quite work it out….
Got a Jock Stein t shirt on in Albufeira today, a few lines from English guys about how bad our football is , after educating them on Celtic,i asked them ‘ is it still coming home?’
would have preferred the left sided defender The Rangers are in talks with.
Dizny matter what ch we sign, they’ll be exposed if the manager dizny put a midfield sheild in front of the defence, like he did in the home game against Zenit, its probably also the reason that the manager’s old club has been to, two European finals in the three years since he was replaced by Jurgen.
Happy clapper’s canny see in front of their own green noses.
Life has called, Laters.
Thon Creepy G comedian looks like he is about to burst out crying.
Good match for ra peepil anyway,bitter,contorted coupon.
The chip-on-the-shoulder, paranoid android bassas.
HH.
RON67 on 6TH AUGUST 2018 5:27 PM
would have preferred the left sided defender The Rangers are in talks with.
How many times have you seen him play mate? Twice….? We brought in Comperr and Hendry in January to handle where we are now, Comperr been a waste of money, how much homework did we do on him? Hendry will go on and be a good CB, needs more games and more bulk IMO HH
So a two and a half mil bid from a club offering fifty quid a week to buy Lafferty, I smell sh…
Didn’t take Sleazy Gee long to ‘stamp’ his credentials regarding his outbursts.World has it in for us,the referee’s blah! blah! blah! all courtesy of fat boy traynor.
Roll on when we hammer them and only then will we see the corner boys
response.
JTT53
Hrvatski Jim gave me the heads up, you were asking after me. All fine here Jim. Not been on CQN since Saturday. Hope you are well my friend.
YNWA
!!BADA BING!! on 6TH AUGUST 2018 5:50 PM
RON67 on 6TH AUGUST 2018 5:27 PM
would have preferred the left sided defender The Rangers are in talks with.
How many times have you seen him play mate? Twice….?
yes , but seen enough to make a judgement, not on a centre back but on a left sided defender.
HH
sorry. how can a club supposedly skint and cant pay players wages. be buying a player for 2.5 million pounds is the ludge and the masons having a whip round.
Huns at it…………
Jabba’s a dug wi’ a bone……….
Ron- Comperr was brought in as a left sided CB, i heard months ago he made an ar$# of himself in Dubai break, what homework did we do on a guy who was injury prone too?
Ron- maybe BR doesn’t fancy Calvin Miller as a back up LB either….HH
First day back and MacIntyre leads with poor refereeing.
Why am I not surprised?
BP1. DUP and Paramilitary cash…
D. :)
DD you get yersell back oan here Garry.
Hail Hail
D. :)