Back in October I wrote that Tom Rogic could be this season’s Player of the Year, or he could just as easily drift out of the team. Injury (hamstring, of course) soon interrupted his run of form but Tom was inspired at Hampden in December, when the League Cup was brought back into the fold. On this basis alone, Tom’s nomination for the Scottish Professional Footballers Association (SPFA) Player of the Year is worthwhile.
The Celtic story of this season is largely how we overturned a six-point deficit during the second half of the campaign. The team’s rise was helped enormously by a spectacular January transfer window, but without a few excellent performers in the first half of the season, current form would count for nought.
Kyogo changed everything. His goals, movement, respectful behaviour, the sheer joy he brought to Celtic cannot be overstated. He was the muse all others took inspiration from. Despite missing half the season, you could make a case that his impact outweighs all others.
Cameron Carter-Vickers did what we hoped Shane Duffy would do a year earlier. He controls his immediate vicinity with an assuredness that allows the entire team to relax and get on with their with their primary function. If not Player of the Year, he is a big part of the story.
The same goes for Joe Hart, who settled our 12 months goalkeeping problem and provides the same assuredness the team gets from Carter-Vickers. Neither Kyogo, Cameron nor Joe received a nomination.
Callum McGregor did and is likely to win the award. He has been a Celtic constant for eight years and a setter of world records for time served per season. He is one of the players who could easily slot into any of the great European sides.
Whatever your views on PotY, these are the nominations came from players who have competed in the league this season; there are no impartial fan or journalist eyes involved.
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The good folk of Leipzig about to come under siege from Der Hun…goos luck t them
Huns got what they went over for, a 0-0 or 1-0. 11 men behind the ball paid off. RBL were poor, too slow on the ball and passing was slow and poor. Manager was too slow to ring the changes. The Huns are rank rotten, they must be the worst team ever to reach a European semi final, they offered less than nothing. They’ve got this far on a diet of woeful refereeing and penalty kick awards.
INIQUITOUSIV on 28TH APRIL 2022 9:45 PM
Scorer played for Man City for a while.
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Angelino was the worst player on the pitch after the 11
Huns.
I will never tire of talking of my hatred of that scum.
But it does not blind me to a shite football team
What have Huns done won a league that NFL and our board gifted them.
What else have they won in their 10 year existence… let me tell you he haw.
They are pish what did they do tonight…hee haw.
In Scotland they get a helping hand from the men in black but still have done nothing in 10 years.
That’s how bad that scum are
Feck them
Love some so called Celtic supporters pain at their REAL team getting beat tonight
GIRFUY
D :)
We can only hope that as the Huns open up at ipox it let’s Leipzig in.
It’s very hard to play against 2 banks of 5, that’s how it is important to take your chances and unfortunately tonight Leipzig never that should have finished 3 or 4 nil to Leipzig.
They were poor at finishing
D :)
INIQUITOUSIV on 28TH APRIL 2022 9:50 PM
To be fair, Leipzig are a better side than Braga. In the last round they struggled at home but did the damage away. Sevco will have to open up a little at home.
It’s a really finely poised tie but I think that late RB goal makes them favourites.
And whoever it was who said German football wasn’t up to much, we’re looking at a very real possibility of an all-Germany final.
Higgins 4-3
One more frame tonight.
Hot Smoked
Perversely, I think they will give Sunday as a gimmie.
However, shouldnt matter to us.
Leipzig struggled to break the huns down, they will have more space away against sevco and would expect them to go through.
My fear is gvb will play the same system against us which could be a problem for us. HH 🍀
INIQUITOUSIV on 28TH APRIL 2022 9:48 PM
Leipzig 11 fouls. Orcs 3. Unbelievable. Lundstram and Jack usually commit 3 a minute.
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Until the two bookings in injury time, I was amazed at the lack of fouls from newco. No rash challenges, lunges, hacks, nothing. Very disciplined defensive performance for 80 minutes. Took an exceptional goal to break the deadlock.
Interesting to see if GVB plays the same tactics on Sunday. Would make sense while they have no forwards.
Don’t know why anyone is slagging RB.They will be delighted with that result.They do the damage away from home.I will be going for 0-2 at Ibrox.Not often they come up against a team playing g like that.You will see the real RB when that mob leave spaces.Wee guy,Nkunku,who missed the sitter cert to score.
I really expected leipzig to beat them by at least 2 tonight so I watched, really disappointed in leipzig as they played into their hands by not breaking quickly when they had the chance, thought that the Germans should have had a penalty the guy stayed up and blasted over,mcgregor beaten by a low bouncing ball to his right, sevco are a really physical team who played 532 541 throughout the game ,this is what they will play on Sunday, we need to attack their back line don’t give them time to get back into shape when they lose the ball.
DENIABHOY on 28TH APRIL 2022 10:01 PM
INIQUITOUSIV on 28TH APRIL 2022 9:48 PM
Interesting to see if GVB plays the same tactics on Sunday. Would make sense while they have no forwards.
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He tried similar on 2nd February and got burst. If he shuts up shop we’ll pass through them and win easily. His best hope is to press like they did at Hampden.
When the dead Huns reached the UEFA final in 2008 using the original Wattenaccio tactics, they still lost the league
Spot on. Get all over their back line and press the hell out of them. Our only weakness is juranovic pace missing to stop counter from Kent or sakala.
My favourite BBC pundit , Richard Foster , saying the whole tactic at Ibrox has changed. At 0-0 they would have sat in for 70 mins at home an then go for it. Now they have to decide how to get a goal
Deniabhoy- – A very good disciplined performance, only if they go through.
Orcs will turn on him as they will that as a chance not taken.
All of course if they go out.
If they through he will be a mastermind.
D :)
This is probably the best result for us – firstly, it is a defeat, and secondly it must put a seed of doubt in GVB’s mind about Sunday’s line-up and approach. He will believe that they can get the job done at Ibrox…..so does he stick, or, twist with his team selection.
Still think that based on the Atalanta result in the Quarter-Final, Leipzig still favourites to go through.
Sevco wer Livingstone tonight with better players
The amount of slave ring over Aribo going up front was nauseating
The trouble sevco ha e with playing the same tactics on sunday is that a draw is no good to them
FSTB
Deniabhoy
“No rash challenges, lunges, hacks, nothing”
Correct because they know in Europe they won’t get away with those types of challenge.
In Scotland they can commit any and all of them with almost total impunity.
Higgins 4-4 O’Sullivan
Resumes tomorrow 2:30pm.
Sunday
Hart
Ralsto CCV Carl Greig
Hatate Cal Mac
Rogic
Jota Maeda
Kyogo
Press, press, press
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HOT SMOKED @ 9:58
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Hope it doesn’t ‘rub off’ on you…… I’m inured to it. I’d be lost without it!!! HH
Now they have to decide if Sunday is as important as the return.
Although I think they will probably play the same way 🤔
Bookies et 365 have Leipzig at 10-1 on to get to final.
Wish I was that confident about it…
Far too much admiration for this mob on here.Wait until next Thursday night at this time.
As for Sunday,we know how they will play.Look for a breakaway.Lundstrom again running about like a mad Bull.Ange has now witnessed their clugging at first hand.Up to him to pick a team to match them.
Biton,if fit,letting Calmac get forward supporting forwards more.No fears about Big Tony.
We will get 2 early goals and they will implode on Sunday.
Damien Delaney in Virgin ‘hoping and praying’ West Ham get through. Looking for Sevco to produce up front next week
As usual, good bhoy Tommy Martin says nothing about then other than big game against Celtic
Pretty sure Tommy’s dad posted on here. A top professional and Celtic promoter
Is there such a thing as intelligent, ignorant football? If there is, they have perfected it.
One man’s “admiration” is another man’s realism. To recognise the strengths of your ‘enemy’ is not defeatist. It is an absolute necessity in order to defeat him.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
DAVID66 – Hatate should not start on Sunday. It’s like being a man down. He needs a good rest and allowed to recover for next season. He is clearly fatigued.
The two players who physically best us are aribo and bassey
Greg taylor showed how to deal with a bully last weekend when Hungbo pushed him around
I do agree that Lungstrom needs CCV to step out and give him a dull yin
Deniabhoy- Who else can you put in that position?
Bitton could do a job but is not as mobile as Hatate and prone to a red.
Maybe try Rogic and O’riley again?
Dont know.
Whoever is on the park just has to have the appetite and hunger to beat this mob.
D :)
DAVID66 – Or maybe Bitton and O’Reilly for a change? Rogic on after an hour or after Bitton gets a yellow 🤨
Tom and Reo were anonymous in the semifinal, bullied off the ball and given no protection from Madden. Would assume Beaton will be just as bad.
DeniaBhoy- wouldn’t be against Bitton starting, but seems he’s been injured?
I think Beaton is an OK ref. Decent in the LC final
Injured or, so the rumour goes, been a naughty boy. Something about going to see a Liverpool game without permission.
Think Ange said, when asked about Nir missing, that he had a small issue, rather than actually say he was injured.
Probably nonsense.