Any away win by a Scottish club in the Netherlands is noteworthy but Aberdeen’s win last night is even more significant. It is a sign that a recovery is underway in one of Scottish football’s perennial underachievers. St Johnstone’s result is more of the same after last year’s achievements. Motherwell’s sorry exit is a lesson on being unprepared….
If Celtic can reach the Champions League group stage for the third successive season, there’s reason to believe our game is on solid ground after the years of excess and abandon.
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75 mins water break still 0-1. Upside If Legia are watching it won’t help them much
Hiatus…..
drink taken………………
Water break. Its wrong to be over critical here. To a large extent it is men against boys. OK the men are winning but it was a bad individual mistake and its still just one goal.
Celtic manager gives his young players a decent workout against a tough and physical German team to assess their qualities and weaknesses, it’ll never catch on…
Noticed someone stretching during water break.
Don’t know who it was, but we should get him off….shouldn’t be risking a muscle injury in a friendly
Kojo, I saw big Findlay play 4 times last season whilst on loan at Morton. He was the standout player on the pitch every time.
Real prospect.
Thanks for the replys. Could I pick up tickets on the day at Murreyfield? That would be my best bet as I will be traveling up from England.
Pfar
It’s not necessarily my opinion, it’s just how the manager seems to view the situation (and Watt’s past managers). Pukki and Stokes are preferred, and he’s probably behind Balde, Griffiths and Commons too – Commons got a run out up front last week.
If Watt wants a game he can prove to the manager that he can play out left. If he does a good job, Deila will be more inclined to play him through the middle when others are injured or off form.
Larsson broke into the team playing out left. It didn’t do him any harm.
Great save Lukasz
Zaluska turns free kick over
Some save from our goalie
Zaluska excellent save – he’s no dud……..well done son.
Crackin’ save from Zaluska
Picked the wrong wall!
@Kojo don’t you go giving young Findlay the kiss of death’
You gave big ups to oor Number 33 two games ago and he wasnae
considered for a starting place by young Ronny D.
in our most important gemme so far.
H.H.
Good save there Lukas, probably unsighted through all the yellow smoke too.
80 mins
79 LZ tips over the bar from a FK. Some of these young lads need to spend time in the gym – too easily brushed off the ball
St Pauli miss sitter
St Pauli miss a sitter.
I may have to venture towards the fridgideire…………..
;)
MadMitch
It’s a numbers game, and our funnel isn’t big enough locally, hence the number of players 18-20 we bring in from other countries.
Our record in developing professional footballers is excellent. Our record in developing 1st team Celtic players capable of competing in the Champions League less so. The latter group represent 1% of the former in terms of the funnel numbers.
We do pretty well in terms of identifying young talent at 19/20 years old, and developing them into top players. Below that, the development pathway remains too unpredictable to rely upon. Most ‘big’ clubs experience the same problem. It’s not restricted to Celtic.
Everton and Southampton have done well in the last decade in producing capable players, but that’s 2 clubs from dozens.
Our current approach to snaffling talent left and right is akin to increasing the size of the funnel by an order of magnitude, a bit like having development teams in every country in Europe. Working pretty well at the moment.
HT
“I do have a wee worry that Ronny is trying to fit square pegs into round holes by playing Watt and Griffiths in wide roles to suit the format he wants to play.
Big Jock never asked players to do the things that he believed they couldn’t.”
Those are two different things. Big Jock made Bobby a central midfielder, he moved Stevie from the wing to the middle, Bertie from the left to the middle and Yogi from the middle to the left. He asked Mike Conroy to play centre half, he played Tom McAdam at centre half and centre forward, Pat McLuskey at Midfield and CB. He even played Ron Yeats up front as Scotland manager.
Tony Watt can do ok from the left. He is direct and heads for the middle as soon as he receives the ball and, he has scored from the left before.
MadMitch
Ronny has made it clear that he wants our defence (Senior and Youth) to pass the ball out from the back. So, prepare for more of this tippy-tappy stuff. We will lose goals as we are learning to cope with this. It takes a brave and intelligent player to manage it. A difficult combination to find
St. Pauli miss a great chance for 2:0
81 St P miss sitter puts it past post. Defensive mistake again
Harmony from both of the Irish counties :-)
This commentator hasnt a clue.Persistently getting players names wrong
Penalty Celtic
Penalty Celtic
Penalty celtic.
a lot of stray passing from the Bhoys…….
Penalty……………………..!
Pen Celtic
Elfmeter…
Penalty Tic
Pen to Celtic
Come on Sammi!!!!
Oh Wait!
Atajic over the bar.
Balloooooooooned
Atajic balloons it over.
Atajic misses